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The Sports Pages
To create your own team web page or umpire board web page on the ImpactzEyewear.com site, click here for lacrosse,
here for field hockey, here for squash, and here for umpires. Click here to see a quick listing of all the teams in each sports.
Did you know...
Sports participation has been shown time and again to have a significant and positive impact on the physical, psychological, and sociological well being of girls and women.
- Teenage female athletes are less likely to get pregnant as non-athletes.
- Women who are active in sports and recreational activities as girls feel greater confidence, self esteem, and pride in their physical and social selves.
- Exercise and sport participation can be used as a therapeutic and preventative intervention for enhancing the physical and mental health of adolescents.
- Physical activity appears to decrease the initiation of high risk health behavior in adolescent girls.
- Girls who participate in sports are more likely to experience academic success and graduate from high school.
- Women student athletes graduate at a significantly higher rate than women students in general.
- 1-3 hours of exercise a week over a women's reproductive lifetime may bring a 20-30% reduction in the risk of breast cancer, and four or more hours of exercise a week can reduce the risk to almost 60%.
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