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2) Kneel
Author
Language
English
Description
For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small Louisiana town. As the team's varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Rus faces an impossible choice: speak up or live in fear. Desperate for change, Rus kneels during the national anthem. In one instant, he falls from local stardom and becomes a target...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After an injury forces Ria off the diving team she forms an unexpected friendship with Cotton, a neuro-divergent boy who helps her to see that Coach Benny's training methods were actually abuse. Then Benny returns, offering Ria a second chance with a life-changing diving opportunity. How do you separate the impossible from possible when the one thing you love is so tangled up in the thing you fear most?
7) Woodlawn
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
8) Legendary
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This is an inspirational tale of a young man's dream to reunite his family through amateur wrestling. Mike Chetley, a former high school and collegiate champion, is estranged from his family. Things change when his awkward, undersized, younger brother Cal comes back into his life with a plan to unify Mike and their widowed mother Sharon, but not without major setbacks.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Lolo Long's niece Jaya, begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
10) Cheerleading
Author
Language
English
Description
"Learn why cheerleading ranks among the top high school sports"--
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father figure for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand united as a team. In this uplifting underdog story, the Abilene Eagles will once again soar in an incredible comeback that will be forever...
Author
Publisher
Basic Health Publications
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Fit Kids For Life covers common misconceptions regarding strength training for children. Kids can safely use resistance training to get fit for recreational activities and sports. Weight lifting allows children to build strength, prevent injury, and improve motor skills. Coaching tips, gender-specific workouts, and training programs are included. You’ll also find tips on pre- and post-exercise nutrition, staying hydrated while exercising, and healthy...
13) Underdogs
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Knights are a lousy team who've become a target for jokes. When down on his luck Coach DeAntonio arrives, he pushes the boys to see their potential, while a hometown bartender tries to reopen his guarded heart.
14) Coach Carter
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
15) Undefeated
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
No hope. No future. Until a football season united a team and revealed the character that turned them into heroes. Undefeated is the inspiring and moving tale of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
16) Boys of fall
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the fall high school football season in large and small towns across the United States as well as the students, teachers, and coaches that support their teams. Also features interviews from professional and retired football players and coaches describing their own experiences as the "boys of fall."
17) All she can
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Luz Garcia wants out, and powerlifting is her ticket. It's all or nothing for her, until nothing stares her in the face.
18) The hoodie girl
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Wren Martin isn't what you would call a popular girl. She is remarkably average, gets good grades, and aspires to get a scholarship to her dream college and leave her hometown, as it's filled with impossible memories. Asher Reed--star athlete and heartthrob of Eastview High--is everything wrong with high school in one frustratingly good-looking body. But when an on-field accident leaves him sidelined for the season, he takes an interest in Wren....
19) Running loose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.