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Lonestar alum helps Horns to stellar season Texas midfielder got start with Lonestar Soccer Article by Lonestar Soccer Club, photos by Texas Sports The Texas Longhorn soccer team got off to its best start in history, and a Lonestar Soccer Club alumna was a big reason why. Katie Glenn (Lonestar 97G ECNL) has been dominating this season.

For her efforts, the junior midfielder was named the Big 12 Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week last month.

We caught up with Katie. She talks dedication, teamwork, and the love of the game.

Position: Midfield Height: 5’3” Class: Junior Hometown: Round Rock, TX High School: Rouse Major: Health Promotion and Behavioral Science Minor: Business Q: At what age did you start to play soccer, and when did you start to specialize? Was it a dream of yours to play college soccer?

I started playing soccer when I was around four years old. I started playing because of my older sister. I always wanted to follow her around and be just like her. I started to take the sport more seriously around middle school age, where I would dedicate majority of my time to soccer and travel. I knew at that point that it was a dream of mine to play at the collegiate level, so I began to train harder and focus on growing as a player in order to get recruited.

Q: What was your favorite part of club soccer at Lonestar? How was the transition from playing club ball to college ball?

Lonestar Soccer is a great club that develops high level players. It has a great reputation and produces quality results.

I think the coaching staff is incredibly invested in their teams and players and made recruiting a smooth process. The

(left) Glenn during her days with Lonestar Soccer Club. (right) Glenn during a recent Texas soccer match in Austin.

club helped me make friends that will last a lifetime and travel the world. The transition from club to college soccer is definitely an adjustment. The speed of play is quicker and is a more physical environment, but playing at the college level is a humbling experience.

Q: What is your training like now as a collegiate athlete? Is it difficult to balance life as a student and an athlete?

Training as a college athlete is hard work. Winning games doesn’t just happen on its own. We train competitively. Every day we’re on the field and weight room.

Having a team that feels like family and has the same mentality to give our 100 percent every day makes every day worth it. Being a student athlete definitely teaches you how to manage your time efficiently. We are treated with so much respect and have so much help here at UT, so being a student athlete is an awesome experience. Getting to earn a college degree while playing the sport we love is something special. School always

comes first. Putting in the hard work in the classroom is a priority; we are students first, then athletes. I am truly blessed to have this opportunity at Texas.

Q: What is your favorite thing about going to UT? My favorite thing about UT is definitely the tradition. There is no other school who shows more pride wearing their burnt orange and hollering the Texas Fight chant than UT. The academics here are the best you can get, and the athletic department receives so much support from its alumni and the city of Austin.

Texas is a family.

Q: Any advice for Lonestar girls?

Advice for the Lonestar girls is just to keep working hard and have fun. Enjoy spending time with your teammates, and play for each other every game.

To learn more about Lonestar Soccer, visit us at www.lonestar-sc.com.

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Dr. Massey’s Recovery Tips for Young Athletes

4. Cross Training

Article by Dr. Amanda Massey, photos

by Celina Vanessa (Athlete’s Affair) & SportsXpress

5. Quality Sleep Your body’s muscles need time to repair themselves, and that happens while you sleep, so it’s imperative that you get good, quality sleep. Every hard workout creates micro tears in the muscles and fascia, and we are designed to use our digested nutrients and stored fuel to repair ourselves as we sleep. This is especially true for the brain and neurological tissue!

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Cross training high impact sports with yoga, Pilates, swimming and body weight resistance exercises is important for recovery. These exercises focus on activating stabilizer muscles and improving proprioception, which is your body’s ability to sense where it is in space. Breath control is also important for oxygenating tissues during recovery workouts. Increased balance and coordination is key to being a top performing athlete for years to come. The fewer injuries you sustain as a young athlete, the more likely you are to go on to higher levels of competition as an adult.

3. Roll, Compress, Flush Foam rolling, voodoo floss, compression socks, Epsom salts baths all have one thing in common: they increase circulation and help flush lactic acid out of your muscles after a workout. Lactic acid is a byproduct from anaerobic exercise. When left in the soft tissues, it creates soreness, pain, and inflammation around tendons and slows down recovery. By rolling, compressing, or flushing this out of the tissues after every workout, you will feel better and recover faster.

2. Get adjusted for peak performance Chiropractic adjustments and myofascial work for wellness purposes free up restricted joints and stimulate nerves. This increases nerve firing to the brain and extremities so that you can have more mobility and balance.

The increased frequency of sitting or extensive use of electronic devices has hindered our performance as athletes.

If posture is compromised at a young age, the body will have to work harder to perform at a high level athletically.

Think of it like rotating the tires of your car. If you are going to be taking your car to the race track, you need to do more maintenance and wheel alignments to optimize performance.

1. Drink water, and lots of it Be sure you hydrate before workouts and hydrate with electrolyte replenishments.

The body is 60 percent fluid, and in order for blood to wellness center circulate and your kidneys to

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Massey, one the left, is an avid polo player.

She coaches a local high school polo team.

effectively filter your blood and remove toxins from your body, you must have the correct fluid balance. Electrolytes are key for preventing cramps and muscle spasms after workouts. The electrolyte that people are most commonly deficient in is Magnesium.

If you are getting cramps, headaches or constipation you are likely to be dehydrated and missing this key electrolyte.

About Dr. Massey Dr. Massey treats young athletes and patients in the Austin area and specializes in the prevention and treatment of extremity injuries with chiropractic adjustments, fascial distortion model, and cold laser.

She’s a graduate of Texas A&M University with a biomedical science degree. As a Junior she suffered a severe back injury while competing for the Aggie Polo Team. Fortunately, she found a chiropractor with a shared love for horses who was able to treat her. Within a few weeks of treatments, Dr. Massey was back in the saddle and competing in the National Intercollegiate Tournament for the Aggies. That experience inspired her to become a chiropractor for people and animals.

In Dr. Massey’s free time, she coaches a local polo team and loves to swim and travel.

To learn more about Dr. Massey and her practice, visit www.austin holisticdr.com or call (512) 328-0505.

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Game of Giving

Visit to battered Port Arthur brings life lessons

Article by SportsXpress, photos by Blanca Ibarra and Janan Miller

kids from Austin returned the favor.

In all, three teams from Southwest Austin Pop Warner and one team from Westlake Pop Warner made the fourhour trip to Port Arthur to give the local teams a game in their hometown.

“The week prior to the game, the coaches reminded our players of why we were traveling to Port Arthur,” said parent Blanca Ibarra. “They told our boys that ‘these kids lost equipment, clothes and a lot more. For one Saturday, we can help them try to forget about their problems.’”

The kids from Southwest Austin also came with a U-Haul filled with clothes, shoes, and school supplies to give to their opponents.

After the Mighty Mite game between the SW Austin Dawgs (White) and the Gulf Coast Crusaders there was a prayer shared by both teams. Then, on the way home, some Austin parents drove their kids through the flood-ravaged neighborhoods were furniture, clothing, and personal items were piled up in front yards waiting to be picked up and hauled away.

For weeks, Austin residents saw the effects of Hurricane Harvey along the Texas gulf coast on television. Children asked questions. Parents tried to find answers.

For families along the coast, the images were all too real. Schools were flooded, homes were destroyed, and sports became an afterthought. In Port Arthur, a town hit hard by Harvey, there was a real possibility that the local Pop Warner football season wouldn’t happen.

“A lot of our kids lost their homes.

Some are now living in tents,” said Otis Brooks, President of the Gulf Coast Pop Warner Football League in Port Arthur.

“Our goal was to keep these kids together and to get their minds off the devastation all around them.”

The season started three weeks late.

Some players didn’t make it back to play. Their parents had more pressing matters like trying to rebuild homes and lives. But, football did return. In late September, two teams from Port Arthur played in Austin. Three weeks later, the

“When we drove around, my son’s eyes were big. We saw beds and furniture on the streets. He kept asking me, ‘Dad is that someone’s bed?’” said parent and coach, Noel Candelaria. “He couldn’t believe what he was seeing.”

“Our kids got to see something they had never seen before. They saw devastation, but they also learned that even though you experience hard times, you can go forward and continue living. You can persevere,” said parent, Bill Walsh.

For the families in Port Arthur, the visit from the teams from Austin won’t be forgotten.

“It was a great day,” said Brooks. “We teach our kids that life is like football, ‘If you get knocked down, you have to pick yourself up and keep playing.’ We’re moving on, and I know this experience will make our kids stronger.”

Players from SW Austin Dawgs and Gulf Coast Crusaders after their game on September 30th in Port Arthur, TX.

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Port Arthur received nearly 46 inches of rain during Hurricane Harvey. Schools, playing fields and homes were under water.

HCPW, Griffin deliver equipment to floodravaged league The Colorado River Valley Youth Football Coalition (CRVYFC) was another youth football program hit by Hurricane Harvey. The league lost much of their equipment because of flooding.

It didn’t take long for Hill Country Pop Warner (serving Central Texas) and USA Football to help. The organization gathered donations from its nine organizations and supplied CRVYFC with footballs, equipment, ball pumps, water bottles, and more.

Former Bowie High School, Texas Longhorn, and NFL star, Michael Griffin, also made the trip to deliver the supplies in Columbus.

(above) Youth football players receive equipment in Columbus, TX. (below) NFL Pro Bowler, Michael Griffin, signs autographs and footballs in Columbus, TX

“It was so exhilarating to see the smiles on the kids’ faces when we delivered the equipment,” said Janan Miller, President of Hill Country Pop Warner. “These kids needed to have something to look forward to, and we were able to get them the equipment they need to start their season. It was great!”

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RBI Austin

Inner city league bringing families together on the diamond, at home

Article by RBI Austin, photos by SportsXpress Criselda Garcia sat on the bleachers during the RBI 12U Bears’ first practice of the season and shared how her 10-year-old daughter, Sophia, first got involved with RBI Austin, a nonprofit that uses baseball, softball, and mentoring to engage and develop inner-city Austin youth.

“RBI Austin Softball?! We didn’t even know there was an opportunity for Sophia to play softball through RBI,” said Garcia.

The Garcia family is no stranger to RBI Austin. Rudy Jr., their 18-yearold son, has been deeply involved in the organization for more than five years. Rudy played on RBI’s summer league and Regional tournament teams, and participated in RBI’s Player Development Program.

In 2014, Rudy was part of the first RBI Austin Regional team to advance to the RBI World Series, where they competed against teams from the Dominican Republic, Miami, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. As part of this team, Rudy got to meet MLB Hall of Famers and the Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig.

So, when the Garcias heard that RBI Austin has a softball league for girls, they jumped at the opportunity for Sophia to join this unique program: a program that values building sports skills and also values developing players off the field.

“It’s much more than simply a sports league. Rudy comes home on Wednesday nights from the Player Development Program and fills me in on all the things they’ve talked about,” said Garcia. “They really care about developing young men and women. Daniel Reyna [RBI Director of Programs] has been the same since day one. He calls and checks in on Rudy. He calls and checks in on me.

We didn’t ask him to mentor these boys. He does it on his own.”

At the ballpark most nights of the week, this sport has knitted the Garcia family together with a common passion.

Rudy and Sophia both play catcher and both wear #14. Criselda and her husband, Rudy Sr., attend almost every practice, game, and tournament.

Teammates have become family, and the Garcias have become a stronger team.

RBI Austin exists to engage and develop inner-city Austin youth athletically, academically, and spiritually, empowering them to lead the transformation of their communities.

Rudy, Sophia and Criselda Garcia at RBI 12U Bears first game of season.

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Like a good neighbor…

Neighborhood Sports is there Article and photos by SportsXpress Jeff Forester and Hector Santiago did what many dads do … they coached their children in several youth sports, but they always thought they could do a better job than some youth sports leagues, so in 2003, the two neighbors started their own organization and appropriately named it Neighborhood Sports. Now, nearly 15 years later, 12,000 kids a year play flag football, basketball, and soccer through Neighborhood Sports.

“Our league is recreational. You won’t be practicing almost every day of the week,” said Forester. “It’s about just getting out there with mom and dad and coaches and just enjoying the game.”

Neighborhood Sports is an official organization of the NFL Youth Flag

Football program, the Junior NBA/WNBA program, and World Cup Recreational Youth Soccer. The kids in the programs will tell you, that means they get to wear replica jerseys of professional teams, so on any given weekend, you can see some really cool uniforms when the Bears and Cowboys battle in South Austin, the Spurs take on the Lakers in Cedar Park, or Arsenal meets Chelsea in Steiner Ranch.

“Our parents like that we’re highly organized and that we’re more of a laid-back organization,” said Santiago.

“Things get competitive between the lines, but there’s lots of sportsmanship, camaraderie, and fun that’s being had.”

Santiago says the league has a high retention rate of coaches. More than 85 to 90 percent of the coaches come back for another season.

“That develops continuity and better experiences for the kids,” said Santiago. “That also shows that we are developing relationships that go beyond the games on the weekend.”

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Rookie Tackle league getting rave reviews Article by SportsXpress and Brent Glasgow, photos by SportsXpress When young baseball players begin to play the game, there’s a bit of a growing process. There’s tee-ball, then coach pitch, then little league ball. That natural progression was missing in youth football — until now.

Austin’s Hill Country Pop Warner league has introduced a Rookie Tackle program this season, and it’s going over quite well.

“I’m incredibly proud to say that the overall feedback from everyone — coaches, players, parents, volunteers and officials — has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Hill Country Pop Warner President Janan Miller. “I had coaches pull me aside to say that their kids just had the absolute best time out on the field. Hearing that makes all this worth it.”

USA Football launched Rookie Tackle in June as a bridge game between flag football and 11-on-11 tackle. Each team puts six to eight players on a playing field that’s narrower than a standard field and 40 yards in length, which allows two games to be played simultaneously. There are no special

New football program allows for smaller field, fewer players, more teaching

teams, and coaches encourage players to try out several positions throughout the season.

Hill Country is one of ten Rookie Tackle pilot programs across the U.S. “It used to take a long time for the kids to get set up for the next play. Now things move quicker,” said parent Eric Kirchhoff whose son, Austin, plays on the NYSA Cowboys Tiny Mite team. “They should keep this format for the young players. It allows for more learning opportunities and more plays.”

Pop Warner Little Scholars Executive Director and National Council of Youth Sports Vice President Jon Butler applauded Hill Country’s implementation of the nascent program.

“I think it’s great. You never know when you try a new idea,” he said. “They seem to have fully embraced it, and we very much appreciate it.”

For Hill Country, it was a big, successful step in a previously unknown direction. “We are thrilled with the results so far and are excited to see what the future holds,” Miller said.

For more information on Hill Country Pop Warner, visit www. hillcountrypopwarner.com.

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Austin Juniors bring home another championship Winter Academy registration open Article and photos by Austin Junior Volleyball This summer, Austin Junior Volleyball (AJV) brought home its seventh national title from USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships. AJV 18 Mizuno dominated the competition, going undefeated to be named National Champions of the 18 USA Division.

It helped that several of the team’s athletes had championship experience — in 2015 as AJV 16 Mizuno, they won gold in the 16 American Division. They became the first Austin Juniors players in the 34-year history of the club to win two National Championship titles.

AJV 17 Mizuno also had notable success at Nationals. This special group of athletes won the silver medal in the 17 Open division, the highest level of play. Only the top 32 teams from around the country qualify to participate in the Open division, and AJV 17 Mizuno proved to be the best of the best. This special group of athletes will look to repeat their success in the upcoming season before all twelve of them head to play NCAA Division I volleyball in the fall of 2018.

While Austin Juniors is proud of its past, the club is looking towards the

18 Mizuno celebrates winning the national championship in Dallas, TX. Athletes future. During the offseason, they’re participate in focused on finding and training the next generation of National Champions. But drills in the Austin Juniors Academy first, those athletes have to fall in love Program. with the sport of volleyball.

The Austin Junior Volleyball Academy The Winter program is a perfect compromise Academy between recreational leagues and runs from late club sports. Designed to prepare November until athletes ages 10 to 14 to train in a team early March, but environment, the Academy pairs skilled, registration is experienced Austin Juniors coaches with always open! a small group of select athletes. The To register for coaches aim to develop more than just an evaluation or get more information individual skills — they’re building team about the Academy program, visit leaders and volleyball players who feel austinsportscenter.com/academy. confident in a live game setting.

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Busy mom finds perfect workout at Titan Evolution Article and photos by SportsXpress It’s 5:30 a.m. and Sarah Broussard gets ready for another workout alone in Southwest Austin. She either goes for a run or puts in the latest Bikini Body Guide DVD and gets to work.

“It was hard to motivate myself,” said Broussard, a mother of two toddlers and Senior UX Designer at a local software company. “I found myself doing the same light weights and the same repetitions. For all the work I was doing, I wasn’t seeing any results.”

Broussard was also dealing with postpartum anxiety after the birth of her two daughters. To make matters even more difficult, she suffered a broken pelvis during delivery of her second daughter, Peyton. Exercising was becoming more difficult and less rewarding.

“I was looking for something different, and that’s when my sister, Hillary, suggested I go work out with her at Titan Evolution,” said Broussard.

After one workout, Broussard was hooked. She loved the variety, the challenge and the camaraderie at Titan.

Now, she and her husband get the kids to school early and then Broussard heads to Titan Evolution off West 5th street near downtown Austin.

“I told owner and trainer, Kevin Edwards, about my recovery from a broken pelvis, and he immediately modified many of the exercises for me.

He found something equally challenging for me, and I really appreciated that. It’s motivating and challenging, and I really enjoy my workout.”

Titan Evolution offers one-hour classes that focus on functional fitness, resistance training, speed, and work capacity. In just three months, Broussard has noticed a difference in her health, strength, and overall demeanor.

“I suffered from postpartum anxiety, and my workouts at Titan

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Evolution have helped me eliminate the anxiety I used to feel during the day,” said Broussard. “I am also so much stronger. I always lifted weights, but now I use proper technique and practice all kinds of lifts. A few weeks ago, I was at a work conference and some women complimented me on my physique. I was on a high for a week!

Finally, I got to a point where people were recognizing my hard work.”

For Broussard, the switch to Titan Evolution has been life-changing. She credits her husband, Travis, for working his schedule around her 7:15 a.m. workouts. A little sibling rivalry has helped too.

“My sister definitely holds me accountable. I’d say, go find a workout buddy or buddies that will will keep things challenging and fun. Ask for family support. Because I get to workout regularly, I am a better person and definitely a better mom.” www.austintitanevolution.com 315 Pressler Street, Austin, TX 78701 *Sign up for a free week *Free Sat. morning workout 9-11 a.m.

(pictured right) Sarah Broussard with husband, Travis, and daughters Charlie and Peyton.

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