Sports are evolving before our eyes. There are moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas alike, traveling 48 weeks out of the year to follow their athlete playing the sport they love. There is money being spent on sports physiologists to give their son or daughter the "upper edge." Children are having surgery on their limbs due to overuse issues at age 10 when the same surgery, 15 years prior, was being performed on 30 year old men in the professional ranks. Young men and women are marketing themselves through videos and highlight reels to potential college powerhouses when they enter middle school to give them enough exposure to be granted a full athletic scholarship six years later. Children are being asked to specialize in one sport before they graduate from the fifth grade. For a price, you can have a DNA analysis done on a young athlete to see if they're destined for professional stardom and even what sport they will excel in. Sports are becoming more and more challenging for the young people that play them and the parents that support them. Sports are evolving before our eyes.
Sports are evolving before our eyes. Young women are winning professional golfing tournaments, professional tennis matches, and Olympic gold medals while still in their teens. Young men are setting new records in track and swimming that were unfathomable just 15 years ago. Young men only 18 years old were turning professional straight out of high school in basketball and continuing to dominate that same sport the very next year in the pros. It seems as though everyday you watch Sports Center there are more and more high school plays in their "Top Ten Plays." Two top ranked high school football teams played last Friday night before 20,000 fans and many thousands more on nationally televised ESPN2. High school football players are holding press conferences in front of thousands to announce where they are going to attend college (and play football more importantly to most) the next fall. Sports are evolving before our eyes.
Sports are evolving before our eyes. Whether we like the events that are happening or not, they are happening. Some of them positive and world changing, some of them heart wrenching. These stories of triumph and failure are surrounding us in a world of news at our finger tips.
I, Scott Greenman, will hope to bring you stories of triumph, tragedy, injury and returning from it, sports performance enhancement, movement science, strength training, coaching practices, flexibility techniques, speed enhancement, agility training, plyometrics, any and everything to do with the wide and glorious world of sports.
I am the Sports Performance Director at Velocity Sports Performance in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. I graduated from Hope College in Holland, MI after participating in football and track during my collegiate career. I have been surrounded by sports my entire life and hope to continue that trend for the remainder of my years of this beautiful earth. I have lived in the amazing city of Charleston, SC for almost 3 years now and have recently been married to the most gorgeous woman, inside and out, Mrs. Danielle Constantin Greenman. My hope in this blog is to educate and entertain you the reader. Feel free to send me an e-mail via my contact information below or comment on the page itself! Enjoy!
Scott Greenman CSCS, NASE
sgreenman@velocitysp.com
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