1. Athlete/Parent meeting
Life of an Athlete

2. WHAT DO YOU WANT
FOR YOUR CHILDREN?

3. Life of an athlete John Underwood
Life of an Athlete promotes the character development and accountability among young athletes that builds better teams, better athletes and ultimately better adults. Two states, New York and New Mexico, have made it part of the athletic program in every public high school in the state

4. John Underwood
John Underwood is a former NCAA All-American, International-level distance runner and World Masters Champion. John has coached or advised more than two dozen Olympians, including World and Olympic Champions. He holds three International Olympic Solidarity diplomas for coaching and has been a crusader for drug-free sports at all levels. John’s innovative program, “PURE PERFORMANCE,” has gained international prominence. He is the Master Trainer for the New York Public High School Athletic Association Chemical Health program, which educates over 750 school districts and over 500,000 athletes yearly. He has conducted the only physiological case studies of the residual effect of alcohol on elite athletic performance. He has appeared as a guest commentator for ABC Wide World of Sports and has worked with nearly all sport federations, including the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Sports Canada, the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Navy Seals

5. Who is involved??? Megan Heinrichs Carlece Kenner Jana Tietjen
Dan Desmond
Fred Kluck
Kurk Wiedel
Bryan Solomon
Josh Lanik
Andy Long
Clayton Hintz

6. Who am I??? Fred Kluck Why am I doing this?
9-12 History Teacher at Bruning-Davenport USD
Head Boys Basketball, Head Track, Junior High Boys Basketball
Why am I doing this?
I care about my students and athletes.
I think we have some good athletes and teams in the Bruning-Davenport-Shickley co-operative.

7. To the athletes
How many of you are excited for this upcoming year in sports?
How many of you enjoy sports more than school?
I want you to think about the first couple weeks of practice, are the coaches taking it easy on you or is it HELL? (I will get back to this)
Goals of a few athletes if they want to volunteer

8. Somewhere, someone is training…
Remember when you are not training…
Somewhere, someone is training…
and when you meet them…
They will beat you.
MATVEEV USSR

9. Why Life of an Athlete? To develop better students/athletes
To develop leaders on the playing field
To develop the athletes as role models for elementary students
To get alcohol/drugs out of the school system.

10. The Last Huddle How quickly it will pass by…
How unknowingly it will come to an end.
The game will be over and you will not even realize the magnitude and significance of what has just ended.
Later you will wish that you had called for a last huddle, to say to all your teammates that this is the last time we will be together like this… as a TEAM, as TEAMMATES…
One of the most special times and experiences of your life will pass by.
It will never be the same after this

11. Just like you
You are our heroes… We watch you and wait for the day we will be just like you. Teach us how to live the life of an Athlete and be champions. Set the example for us, because we are the future of this program.

12. You are an athlete all the time,
Life of an Athlete
It is not just that you put on uniform, or show up every day at practice or for the games…
You are an athlete all the time,
on and off the field.
You represent your family, your community, your school , your teammates, your coach and YOURSELF.
The American Athletic Institute began an initiative in the year 2000 to impact the use of social drugs by athletes at all levels of sport. The Life of an Athlete© program has been utilized in 39 states and by thousands of school districts. The program has been presented at the Office of Juvenile Justice National Leadership Conference for the past eight years. This promising prevention/intervention program focuses on all stakeholders in a community to help create a vigilant approach to insure programs of excellence and reduce drug use by athletes.

13. American Athletic Institute
Nearly 60% of H.S. Athletes use alcohol
AAI has researched the effect of alcohol on elite athletic performance
Proven Scientific Facts:
Alcohol increases the time for recovery of androgenic training hormones (Up to 96 hours- 4 days)
Alcohols diuretic effect diminishes water soluble vitamins required for hormone catalytic/conversion actions
HGH (Human Growth Hormone) release is reduced up to 70% during the sleeping hours when release is at peak levels
Alcohol greatly increases the release of cortisol (the stress hormone)  Cortisol negates training effect
Alcohol decreases the protein synthesis for muscle fiber repair
Alcohol can impair the blood glucose system for up to 36 hours
Alcohol reduces the immune system capability - Athletes who drink get sick more often.
Drinkers are twice as likely to become injured as non- drinkers
Alcohol reduces performance potential by up to 11.4% in elite athletes and perhaps by as much as 15-30% in h.s. athletes
Alcohol disturbs the REM sleep time, reducing the CNS restorative/recovery ability
Alcohol impairs reaction time up to 12 hours after consumption
Alcohol negatively affects heart lungs and muscle performance (<VO2 > Lactate < Ventilation >H.R.)
Heavy episodic drinking results in projected losses of up to 14 days of training effect
SUMMARY: Alcohol is a metabolic poison that crosses all barriers and negatively affects all systems of the human physiology simultaneously
Time to educate your Athletes, Parents, Coaches…
American Athletic Institute
Visit americanathleticinstitute.org

14. 14-24 THE TEN MOST DANGEROUS YEARS OF LIFE RISK>>>
Although we understand that teenagers are able to start doing more for themselves, it is during their teens and early 20s that we need to be the most involved with our youth. We need to talk and talk often about the risks and the importance of making positive choices.
We lose more people to fatal accidents during this time than during all other ages.

15. Thayer county statistics

16. Statistics cont.

17. Where are they getting it???

18. Statistics cont.

19. ATHLETE
John Underwood

20. The Life of an ATHLETE /LOA
LOA is a systemic community approach to:
1. reducing risk
2. increasing protective factors in student athletes while
3. setting clear consistent boundaries for behavior
4. increasing consequence beliefs,
5. teaching appropriate athlete lifestyle
6. establishing a process to identify and help those involved in drug use
or behaviors of concern.

21. Olympic and College Level Athletes
An eleven year study of the effects of drugs on high level physical performance

22. You cannot achieve in competition, What you have not achieved in training.
Priority
Important
Focus
Dedicated
Motivated
Pay the price…Live the Life of an Athlete©

23. ALCOHOL USE
Amen Clinics

24. Teen heavy weekend user of Alcohol
SOCIAL DRUG USE
Surface View: This smooth view shows full activity
Bumpy areas and places that do not ‘fill in’ are areas of low or decreased activity.
Teen heavy weekend user of Alcohol
Amen Clinics 24

25. Alcohol ruins your chances
What kind of performance will you have?
Your brain runs your body
HEALTHY NORMAL BRAIN
What kind of performance will you accept?
HEAVY TEEN ALCOHOL USER
Alcohol ruins your chances
Scans by Amen Clinics

26. BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING THROWING
ALCOHOL CNS IMPAIRMENT
FRONTAL
Alcohol non-user on the left, see the red circles that is a practiced skill
Here is a heavy alcohol user on the right, see how much more brain activity is used.
CEREBELLUM
NORMAL
ALCOHOL
BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING THROWING 26

27. 1X DRUNK = 14 DAYS LOST TRAINING EFFECT DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME
American Athletic Institute has studied the impact of alcohol on condition in elite athletes. Impact has shown significant projections in lost physiological condition that correlates to as much as 14 days of lost training effect…for each time drunk…
AMERICAN ATHLETIC INSTITUTE 2005
I told you I would come back to this. Is it worth sacrificing that much practice for one night of partying?
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME

28. What are the AFFECTS?

29. Start Up Speed 0-10 YDS. < 8%

30. Agility Reaction < 8%

31. Acceleration 0-20 YDS. < 6%

32. Explosive Power < 11%

33. LOST PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL
100%
90%
88.6%
-11.4%
-15-20%
-20-30%
Elite level athletes lost an average of 11.4% from their median performance level as a result of the residual effect of alcohol…
So that means that if they go from up here at acceptable performance down to here, what do you think a high school athlete is going to lose, it is much more than that. That means that your top athlete in high school could be 30% better than what they are right now if they just gave up drinking. That’s the difference between an athlete and someone who thinks they are an athlete.
NCAA
High School
American Athletic Institute

34. INJURIES
Through a study they had 792 colleges division 1, 2 and 3 all they had to do was track football injuries in their training rooms and all they had to do was ask their athletes if they were regular alcohol users or non-user. The injury rate for the alcohol users was 58.4% and the injury rate for the non-users was 23.8%. You will get hurt.
2X HIGHER

35. Injury rates for non-drinkers 23.8%
Injury rates for drinkers 54.8%
Injury rates for non-drinkers 23.8%

36. Alcohol decreases immune capability
DRINK
Alcohol decreases immune capability
GET SICK

37. ALCOHOL VS. TESTOSTERONE
Some teen males who drink heavily & regularly have testosterone levels similar to female levels.
These men had testosterone levels at ratios like women.
So ladies who are athletes at any time in their lives only have a 1:10 ratio of testosterone. Females athletes who drink heavily take a bigger hit than males because they have less testosterone to work with. It takes 96 hours for testosterone levels to come back up.
10:1 or 1:10
ALCOHOL VS. TESTOSTERONE

38. Alcohol stays in the female body longer
1:10
FEMALES TAKE A BIGGER HIT
FROM HEAVY DRINKING
Alcohol stays in the female body longer
Females have less of the enzymes to breakdown alcohol

39. Healthy Brain Marijuana Brain16
16 yr. old daily user
Amen Clinics

40. It doesn’t affect me at all…
Healthy Brain Marijuana Brain
ADULT
LIFELONG
Amen Clinics

41. Healthy 16 Heavy Lifelong
KEEP SMOKIN…

42. POT OR NOT? YOUR CHOICE YOUR GAME
MARIJUANA
SKILL IMPAIRMENT
Simple hand skill test on the left of a non user and on the right of a habitual user. 5 other parts of the brain have to re-route the signal in order to make this happen and this is residual damage the person doesn’t even have to be stoned this is still what it looks like. That is not optimal.
NON USER
SIMPLE HAND SKILL
MARIJUANA USER
SIMPLE HAND SKILL
Note: Subject not under influence during scan.
POT OR NOT? YOUR CHOICE YOUR GAME

43. A Shadow of Yourself
Are you at your best or are you just a shadow of what you could be?
Are you really an ATHLETE?
Is the life you are living conducive to being at your best?
Live the Life of an Athlete
This is your team, your time. If you have teammates that are doing things they shouldn’t be doing, remove them from the situation
Good luck this year