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Kids and Sports & grit

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What Is Teamwork?

Before our first Greenways inter house competitions, the children were treated to a reminder of what teamwork is.

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2015
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Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You’re a Girl (and Other Truths about Winning)

This is what your coaches would have said to you if you were a boy, told through the story of a small-college team that won more games than it ever had a right to win.

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Dan Blank
2014
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Raising Tomorrow’s Champions: What the Women’s National Soccer Team Teaches Us About Grit, Authenticity and Winning

An extraordinary parenting and life lessons book as told through the eyes of the greatest women’s soccer players of all-time, including Mia Hamm, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Crystal Dunn and more than 100 others.

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Joanna Lohman, Paul Tukey, Carli Lloyd (foreword)
2024
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In God’s Hands: Simone Biles on the Great Advice that Changed Her Life

Simone Biles talks about how she beat the odds to win Olympic gold.

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Simone Biles
2017
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance

Simone Biles’ entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, along with drive to succeed no matter the obstacle, are what brought her to the national spotlight during the Olympic Games and have catapulted her ever...

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Simone Biles
2024
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Simone Biles: My Family Sacrificed as Much as I Did for Me to Get to Rio | TODAY

Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles tells TODAY that her family sacrificed as much as she did during her grueling gymnastic training. She says there was a lot of outside pressure on her before the 2016 Games even began, but because she’s “stubborn,” she was able to set it aside.

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Simone Biles
2016
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Simone Biles Discusses Her Book, “Courage to Soar” | BUILD Series

Join Olympic champion Simone Biles as she discusses “Courage to Soar,” co-written with journalist Michelle Burford, that chronicles Biles’ inspirational path to success. Biles is the most decorated U.S. women’s gymnast ever with 19 World/Olympic medals.

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Simone Biles
2016
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Serena Williams: The Story of a Tennis Sensation

As Serena Williams gears up to win the calendar year grand slam, we look back at her remarkable career, which started in one of the USA’s toughest cities.

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Serena Williams
2015
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How These Professional Athletes Overcame Lyme Disease

Athletes are at greater risk for tick-borne illness. They’re also less likely to recognize the symptoms.

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Angela Naeth, Lesley Paterson
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