Often, the goal is to simply land a spot on the local high school team, an accomplishment once taken for granted.
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Australian friends Stuart Appleby and Robert Allenby are also paired together, as are Boo Weekley and Bubba Watson, former high school team-mates.
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They have created a website, attempting to refute a number of allegations, including that the local police department was full of ex-football players who played on the Steubenville high school team.
However, Indiana in June had already self-imposed a one-year ban on communication between its basketball coaching staff and Adams, whose A-HOPE Foundation finds often make it to his own Indiana Elite AAU high school team.
However, the research presented here does show commonality, in that sports parents are presented with a very vague order: If you want your child to get a college scholarship (or even make the high school team), you have to ensure your child is of a certain athletic ability.
There was even a bounty scandal earlier this year involving a high school rugby team.
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Jordan, the greatest basketball player ever, claims to have been cut from a high-school team.
Some residents have accused outsiders of trying to ruin the reputation of the town's high school football team.
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He went on to quarterback his high school football team and was captain of the baseball and basketball teams.
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He was one of the tallest player on his North Carolina high-school team, which included 6-foot-11 Duke star Ryan Kelly.
When Moore made his high school football team, Mama, a housewife, and Daddy, a carpenter and World War II veteran, showed up for every game.
Cesar had played quarterback for his high school football team and knew that through practice and repetition the human brain can learn almost any skill.
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If he couldn't play offensive line on his high school football team, for example, it was only because he was too busy helping out on the family farm.
In the movie he comes across as a narrowly focused computer nerd, yet in real life he was a jock, of sorts, too captain of his high school fencing team.
My reputation for mischief was so strong that by the time I left in 2000, I was on a first name basis with the entire Burges High School security team.
Once word got out that legendary Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken liked to bust slumps by swatting balls off a batting tee as far as he could, for instance, every high-school team suddenly owned a tee.
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The controversy has shaken the city, with some residents accusing outsiders of trying to ruin the reputation of the town's high school football team, one of the few bright spots in the economically depressed community of 18, 000.
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Evan is a member of the 2011 PARADE All-America High School Service Team, an award recognizing outstanding young service leaders presented by Parade Magazine in partnership with generationOn, the global youth enterprise of Points of Light.
Jordan is a member of the 2011 PARADE All-America High School Service Team, an award recognizing outstanding young service leaders presented by Parade Magazine in partnership with generationOn, the global youth enterprise of Points of Light.
While working to return from his injury, Lewis watched them play on the same high school football team, and he intends to watch Ray Lewis III perform as a freshman next year for his alma mater, the University of Miami.
As I posted this piece, Goose Creek, which USA Today ranks as the 11th-best high school football team in the country, is up 28-19 over Bluffton in the third quarter of its South Carolina High School League football playoff game.
Critics have accused community leaders of trying to paper over rampant misconduct by players of the highly regarded Steubenville High School football team and have suggested that other students took part in the assaults or failed to do enough stop them.
He came to Bernstein in 2001, the youngest analyst at the time, and two years later joined the tech strategy group run by the estimable Vadim Zlotnikov, captain of his high school math team in Brooklyn and an electrical engineering double-degree-holder from MIT.
There was no mention of Holley Mangold, 2012 U.S. Olympic team weight lifter and sister of NFL Center Nick Mangold of the New York Jets, who played high school football on an all-boys team for Archbishop Alter High School, a Catholic school overseen by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Ronnie Chalmers, Mario's father, spent 22 years in the Air Force and coached Mario's high-school basketball team in Anchorage, Alaska.
After spending an entire summer perfecting his game, he tried out for his high school's basketball team.
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