Tag Archives: athletics
Prepare to win
Preparation is as powerful as it is simple. Yet, the rather elementary concept is difficult for many people to execute properly. Nick Cidado is an assistant strength & conditioning coach at Boston College and has worked with thousands of athletes … Continue reading
How to Coach Girls
Seventy percent of kids quit organized sports by age 13, with girls quitting six times the rate of boys. This is one of the realities Alison Foley and Mia Wenjen are hoping to change with their new book, How to … Continue reading
New book on Eagles Hockey
The new book Tales from the Boston College Hockey Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Eagles Hockey Stories Ever Told (Sports Publishing, 2014) details the long and highly successful history of men’s ice hockey at Boston College, from the informal “ice polo” … Continue reading
Remembering the Emerald Isle Classic
Boston College alumnus Jim O’Brien, the man behind the Emerald Isle Classic–the first American college football game played in Europe, has released a commemorative book about the historic event. The Match, tells the story of the BC-Army game played on November 19, … Continue reading
Herzlich has “What It Takes”
Super Bowl champion and former Boston College football star Mark Herzlich has written (with Isaac Eger) What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game (NAL/Penguin, 2014), a new book that tells his story from his childhood to … Continue reading
Move!
Catharine Utzschneider, who teaches in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, has published MOVE! How Women Can Achieve Athletic Goals At Any Age. According to the publisher: “Designed for women from non-exercisers to elite athletes…MOVE!’s unique process of goal setting … Continue reading
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