Courage to Soar

Author: Simone Biles
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310759528
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world—and how you too can overcome challenges in your life. 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 since—including 25 World Championship medals. But there is more to Simone than her accomplishments. In this book Simone shares: how she has relied on her faith and family to stay focused and positive the ways she’s continued competing at the highest level and having fun doing what she loves a behind-the-scenes looks at gymnastics events, including the Olympics the events and challenges that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic team Along the way, Simone shares the details of her inspiring personal story—one filled with daily acts of courage that led her, and can lead you, to even the most unlikely of dreams Special eBook bonus content contains 3 extra chapters of behind-the-scenes look into Simone’s life Courage to Soar: presents a positive role model for young girls, whether athletes or not is an ideal gift for birthdays, holidays, or to celebrate important achievements is perfect for school assignments and reports is an inspirational story for fans of gymnastics or any sport contains an eight-page, full-color photo insert

Gymnastics Meet Journal

Author: Deborah Sevilla
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976303395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
The NEW 8x10 version of the best selling Gymnastics Meet Journal. This is a new kind of scorebook that helps the gymnast reflect on more than just scores. Like our original scorebook and journal series, the Meet Journal has an About Me, About My Team & About My Season sections. The gymnast has a place to record meet scores, highlights & goals PLUS a "journal" page for each meet, with prompts to reflect on attitude, sportsmanship and more. NEW to this book is an area in the back to save information about meets; such as location, hotels & restaurants. 8 x 10 affords more room to write! Dream Believe Achieve Athletics offers many options for artistic gymnastics: Inside and out! Outside: Blue, Purple, Pink designs are available and custom covers available for all books.Inside: Our scorebook contains competition scorebook pages and score charts. The Gymnast Journal contains only the journal prompt pages; perfect for both meets and practices. The Gymnastics Scorebook & Journal features scorebook pages & about me sections. The Gymnastics Meet Journal contains the about me pages, scorebook pages, journal prompt pages and score charts. Other sport-specific guides, workbooks, scorebooks, and journals are available.

Flying High

Author: Michelle Meadows
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250819946
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
A lyrical picture book biography of Simone Biles, gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar. Before she was a record-breaking gymnast competing on the world stage, Simone Biles spent time in foster care as a young child. Nimble and boundlessly energetic, she cherished every playground and each new backyard. When she was six years old, Simone's family took shape in a different way. Her grandparents Ron and Nellie Biles adopted Simone and her sister Adria. Ron and Nellie became their parents. Simone was also introduced to gymnastics that same year, launching a lifelong passion fueled by remarkable talent, sacrifice, and the undying support of her family. From her athletic early childhood to the height of her success as an Olympic champion, Flying High is the story of the world's greatest gymnast from author Michelle Meadows and illustrator Ebony Glenn.

Gold Medal Summer

Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545483794
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A gymnastics novel to flip for! Joey Jordan loves gymnastics: the thrill of performing a backflip on the beam, the cheers of the audience when she sticks a landing. But even with all her talent and style, she's never quite made it to that gold medal stand.Now big changes shake up Joey's life in and out of the gym. Joey wants to break out some daring new beam and floor routines--but she'll have to defy her strict coach to do it. Her best friend, Alex, is thinking about quitting gymnastics for good. And an old friend named Tanner just moved back to town, and he's suddenly gotten very, very cute. Can Joey handle all the challenges coming her way, and make her gold medal summer happen at last? Drawing on her real-life experience as a competitive gymnast, acclaimed novelist Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gymnastics story and a classic novel about stretching some limits, bending the rules, and finding your balance.

Winning Every Day

Author: Shannon Miller
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780553097764
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Gymnast Shannon Miller writes about her dreams and achieving these dreams.

The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Women and the Olympic Dream

Author: Maria Kaj
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476648743
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
On an April morning in 1896, unemployed single mother Stamata Revithi ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens, finishing in 5 hours 30 minutes. Barred from the first Olympic marathon, she was determined to prove herself. Through more than a century of Olympic Games history, women athletes--who were held back from swimming because long skirts were required, limited to running single-lap races because of fallacies about fragility, or forced to endure invasive gender exams--competed in spite of endless challenges. From Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020, this history of women's participation in the Olympic Games centers on athletes who overcame entrenched inequity to gain inclusion.

Gymnastics Training Log & Journal

Author: Gymnastics Gift Store
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691375929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Show your gymnast your love and appreciation by telling them they are awesome with this perfect girls gymnastics gift notebook. Great for use as a diary, competition or meet score recorder and training scheduler. This awesome gift notebook and journal measures 6" x 9", with 120 lined pages full of cute ideas for a gymnast to fill in. Perfect as a birthday or Christmas gift too. Matte cover lamination for that soft, classic feel and look and durability. A perfect gift all year round, for end of the year or on the start of a season - great gift for a mom, dad or grandparent to get for their little gymnast!

Sporting Blackness

Author: Samantha N. Sheppard
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520307798
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.

Mind Gym

Author: Gary Mack
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071504648
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Praise for Mind Gym "Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game." --Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain "Mind Gym hits a home run. If you want to build mental muscle for the major leagues, read this book." --Ken Griffey Jr., Major League Baseball MVP "I read Mind Gym on my way to the Sydney Olympics and really got a lot out of it. Gary has important lessons to teach, and you'll find the exercises fun and beneficial." --Jason Kidd, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold-medal winner In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." Mind Gym will give you the "head edge" over the competition.