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Over the weekend, an interesting tweet came across my Twitter account. The first thing that caught my attention was that it was a re-tweet from Missy Tiber. Coach Tiber was the head women’s basketball coach at Belmont Abbey College near Charlotte, N.C., when I was an NSR scout. I visited the Belmont Abbey campus numerous times and always stopped by Missy’s office to say hello and to talk about her team and her recruiting needs. We would often run into each other at regional girls basketball showcases and tournaments. Over time we developed a nice relationship. She went on to become the head women’s coach at Southern Illinois University and today is the head women’s hoops coach at the University of Northern Alabama. So, when I saw her name attached to a tweet, I was naturally curious to read what she thought significant enough to pass along to others. Here was that tweet: “A weekend of hard drinking erases a week of hard training. Alcohol=poison for athletes, trashes the body, slows & weakens you in every way.”
That short statement became the inspiration for this blog entry. As often is the case, once the corner of a page is turned, it is impossible for me to not turn it in full and see what the next page has to offer. In this case, I immediately wanted to find out more facts about the effects of alcohol on athletic training, especially on high school athletes. Off I went on an adventure into Cyber World to find what lay beneath the tweet.
As it turned out, however, I didn’t have to search far to find the perfect article, “Alcohol and Athletes.” Published by the Office of Alcohol and Drug Education at Notre Dame University, this exceptional piece of information is backed by well-founded research and covers the topics How Alcohol Affects Muscle Development and Recovery and How Alcohol Affects Your Ability to Learn New Plays and Strategies. Sidebar topics are wide-ranging and helpful in delving deeper into this important aspect of athletics. It even goes so far as to provide a list of NCAA banned drugs and the specific NCAA rules to which the use or abuse of alcohol and drugs apply.
Enjoy!
National Scouting Report is dedicated to finding scholarship opportunities for athletes who possess the talent, desire, and motivation to compete at the collegiate level. We’ve helped connect thousands of athletes with their perfect college.