European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 25, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 25 youth sports face 90% dropout rate fitness expert says n., Ida Norv Ritch r u a. A by Ira Dreyfuss Washington a the problem of the quitter kids has exercise experts worried. Youngsters who used to love Community sports Start losing interest usually starting before the age of 10 and continuing through is or 16, said fitness expert Kenneth h. Cooper. Eventually up to 90 percent of Young players auit organized sports or. Cooper said in his new Book a kid  just when pre teens and teen agers can capitalize on their fast growing bodies to get an enormous Benefit from exercise they Stop said the founder of the Cooper Institute for aerobics research in Dallas. However those physical changes May be a contributory reason for children to drop out Cooper said in a Telephone interview. A they Are not picked to play because they Are a couple of years behind he said. Muscles Bones and the ability of the nervous system to make them work mature at different rates in different children the physician and researcher said. A late Bloomer May feel incompetent because he is outclassed by his own age group while an Early Developer May feel frustrated because he loses his Lead As his Peers catch up Cooper said. What a child thinks of his body is very important to whether he continues in sports said Lani Graham a program administrator for the National association for sport and physical education a teachers group based in Reston a. Children who done to feel adequate May choose not to participate Graham said. A they May hate to go to gym class because they have to show offa too thin or too fat body a Graham said. And the drive to Victory May Overlook the child a reasons for competing the experts say. Children want to have fun More than they want to win reported a Survey of 10,000 students in grades 7-12, in 11 cities around the nation. The data was gathered for the american footwear association by the youth sports Institute of Michigan state University and released with analysis by psychologist Steven j. Danish of Virginia Commonwealth University. A fun entails such benefits As improving skills staying in shape taking satisfaction from ones performance and competing against others a danish wrote. A a not fun seems to involve pressure a pressure to perform to win to practice too much. The sense of play seems to have left the  parents can help children keep the fun danish said in a Telephone interview. A when they come Home after the game the first question is a did you win a danish said. A the first question should be a did you have fun what did you do a a adults should encourage children and provide nonjudgmental tips focusing on of to achieve a skill said Brent t. Steuerwald director of athletics and physical education at Shenen Dakowa Central school District Clifton Park y. A criticize performance not personality a he said. Schools and communities should offer Many sports so children can Sample a variety As they find the ones they like he said. Fitness activities such As running should be built into sports programs so children can learn to enjoy healthful aerobics that can become a lifetime habit said runner and athletics consultant Robert Glover of new York City. And parents should Lead by example in making aerobics part of daily life the experts say. Younger children can go for Short walks or Bike rides with their parents he said. Stepping up the pressure its do Didio Frankfurt Senez Brown gets a leg up in applying defensive pressure against Heidelberg a Michelle Hedick during saturdays big schools girls championship game in Mannheim Germany. Heidelberg won the championship 37-32 As the first part of a boy Ger sweep of the big schools  work 2-on-5 Hardwood Miracle Stevenson Ala. Apr two players is. Five players. No contest right wrong. Playing with Only two players for the last 70 seconds of overtime a everyone else fouled out a North Jackson High school rallied from a five Point deficit for a 69-67 Victory Over fort Payne. A your kids could hardly believe what they a done a said North Jackson assistant coach Victor Griggs. A they just piled up in the Middle of the floor.  losing coach Phillip Collie said he had a never experienced the pain i Felt after that game. Its one of those things you never think could happen one of those situations you never go  trailing 67-62 with 1 10 remaining in overtime North Jackson appeared to have  Chance for a comeback last Friday night. Senior Center Robert Collier and Junior guard Chad Cobb were the Only players left on the floor for North Jackson after their seven teammates fouled out. A a in a thinking a  Way a a said head coach Jay Sanders. A what do i say to the two kids a Cobb began the comeback by hitting a 3-Pointer. After fort Payne missed a shot and lost the Ball out of Bounds Collier unbounded to Cobb who was fouled and made both free throws to tie it at 67. A after he made the first one in a thinking a hey maybe we be still got a Chance a a Sanders said. Fort Payne was called for travelling with 13 seconds left. After a timeout Collier had to throw the Ball in to Cobb. Collier had a Man guarding him and Cobb was triple teamed but he eluded All three defenders along the Baseline and took the inbound pass. Cobb dribbled the length of the floor and missed a shot. But Collier got the rebound and made a Basket with six seconds remaining. Fort Payne then brought the Ball Down and missed a shot at the Buzzer. A it was really Odd. Unbelievable a Griggs said. When he got to the locker room he told his players a fellas you be Given new meaning to the two Man  although both teams lost in the opening round of the state High school playoffs tuesday night Griggs said fridays Miracle Victory was still the talk of the school. A the basketball players have taken it All in stride Quot Griggs said. But he added students keep telling him a you know you love  Griggs said he feels sorry for fort Payne. A what really bothers me is for fort Payne to get All his bad publicity a he said. A they sweated and got gym Burns just like we  Collie said the loss has changed him As a coach. A a in a sure there is not a coach around who says if we get Down to three players or two players this is what Well do a he said. A this is one coach that will in the  California girls have foes quaking rolling Hills estates Calif. Apr they be got a better record than Duke and Are feared As much As the Chicago bulls. They win by an average of 35 Points and beat one team 101-22. In the rematch they used reserves and won 83-9. They be got a powerful front line and great outside shooters. And. They re a Hunch of teen aged girls. Created when three High schools in suburban los Angeles were combined last fall Palos Verdes Peninsula High is 24-0 in its first season and is top ranked nationally in division i a by Usa today. A a we re an uptempo full court pressure team a coach Wendell Yoshida said. A we done to stall. We done to play slow. We done to play like girls. We play like Basket Ball  and Good ones at that. The team has attempted 311 3-Point shots this season and made 95 of them. A your offence is designed to look for the �?~3�?T first a Yoshida said. A that gets the big people  at 6-foot-5, Jeffra Gausepohl Heads the big front line. She a the teams leading scorer averaging 15 Points per game. Gausepohl credits Yoshida a coaching approach with the teams Success. A was coach Yoshida says a perfect practice makes perfect a a Gausepohl said. A in practice he shows us what our options Are in game  that makes Peninsula players prime targets for College recruiters. Gausepohl is commit cd to . 1 Virginia teammate Monique Morehouse a 6-3 senior Forward will be going to Auburn