Heres everything you need to know if your student athlete is gearing back up for sports
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Lake Creek's dual-sport star battles through adversity; commits to Aggies
Ty has always been immersed in basketball, football or baseball growing up. The 6-foot-7 dual-sport athlete recently committed to Texas A&M for baseball, but his journey has showed what he's made of when facing adversity. In third grade, all my buddies on the basketball team where basically the same kids on the football team. Basketball fell by the wayside in the eighth-grade as he began to really focus on baseball and football. "During the football season my shoulder was hurting but I just treated it and played the rest of the year," he said.
Using sleep to boost performance
"We're kind of a sleep deprived nation now," said Dr. Gary Trock, a sleep specialist at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. "School performance, athletic performance, mood affect physical well-being, cardiovascular health -- all those things are worse in people who don't get good sleep versus people who get good sleep," he said. "The best way to improve your own sleep is to follow what's called 'sleep hygiene,'" Trock said. "Alcohol close to bed, caffeine close to bed are ways to disrupt sleep, cause less quality sleep," Trock said. "Between six and seven hours sleep is a huge difference for most people," Trock said.