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Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
128 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
With its breakneck speed, upstart attitude and stunning locales, snowboarding is the definitive sport for those who thrive on adrenaline rushes and winter activities. No longer the exclusive province of renegade hot-doggers, huckers and shredders, snowboarding earned its own venue for the 1998 Nagano Olympics and was very popular at the Salt Lake City Olympics 2002. Today people of all ages are participating in this sport of athletic prowess and extreme...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxi, 193 pages ; 28 cm.
Description
Volleyball: Steps to Success provides readers progressive instruction in the skills and tactics of the sport. Readers learn the basic skills before developing a more complete understanding of how to use those skills in matches. Photos and court diagrams clarify the detailed written descriptions of the proper techniques of the skills, drills, and tactics. The drills, which provide readers effective ways to practice and develop the skills and tactics,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Recovery-physical and mental-is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology, and commerce have all taken note. This second edition of The Athlete's Guide to Recovery helps readers sort through the hype to focus on the practices and devices that really make a difference in recovery and lead to peak performance"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xi, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Profiles coaches from a wide variety of sports--basketball, volleyball, tennis, softball, track, cross country, soccer, rowing, field hockey, lacrosse, cross country, and ice hockey--at U.S. colleges. Offers inspiring stories about the strong, competitive women who have helped reshape women's collegiate sports. The coaches profiled include Tara VanDerveer, the 1996 Olympic basketball coach and winner of two national championships at Stanford; ice...
17) Fence: 2
Author
Series
Fence (Graphic novel) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fencing, and earn his place on the Kings Row fencing team, alongside sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama, to win the right to go up against his golden-boy half-brother.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 246 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
"Both dispatch and dissertation, NPR contributor Diane Roberts, an English professor at Florida State University, gives a insider's account of a big time college football program in the midst of controversy, while examining the impact and legacy of the sport's popularity in America today"--
Author
Series
Blood City Rollers volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
185 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
After ice-skater and Olympic hopeful Mina wipes out at her biggest competition she gets recruited by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their Paranormal Roller Derby team.
20) Fence: 1
Author
Series
Fence (Graphic novel) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm,
Description
"Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, is a scrappy fencing wunderkind, and dreams of getting the chance and the training to actually compete. After getting accepted to the prodigious Kings Row private school, Nicholas is thrust into a cut-throat world, and finds himself facing not only his golden-boy half-brother, but the unbeatable, mysterious Seiji Katayama... Through clashes, rivalries, and romance between teammates, Nicholas...
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