🚨 Attention Parents of Teen Girl Athletes If your daughter is between 14–18 years old, active in sports, and stands 5’4” to 5’10” but weighs only 105–125 lbs, she may be under-fueled for her body and performance needs…..especially during key years of growth and development. ⚠️ Under-fueling in teen girls can lead to: • Slowed or delayed growth • Menstrual irregularities or loss of period • Higher risk of injury (especially stress fractures) • Low energy, fatigue, and poor focus • Hormonal imbalance and long-term consequences for bone and reproductive health If you want to help your athlete build strength, maintain hormonal balance, and perform confidently, nutrition must be a non-negotiable. ✅ Start here: • 3–4 full meals daily (with quality protein, complex carbs, healthy fats, and micronutrients) • 1–2 performance snacks around training, lifts, or games • 8–10 hours of sleep each night • Plenty of water electrolytes (ditch energy drinks) • Prioritize rest and reduce screen time before bed for recovery 🍭 Junk food, sodas, and candy don’t fuel greatness. They’re okay in moderation, but not daily, and not if her physical and mental performance matters. Parents: Set consistent meals and snacks just like practices and competitions. Your daughter’s strength, focus, confidence, and long-term health depend on it.

Winning and losing both matter. Winning teaches an athlete what is possible. Losing teaches them what is required. If adults remove the sting from losing too early, they also remove part of the lesson. If everything gets rewarded, then nothing gets measured. If every kid is handed the same validation regardless of effort, growth, sacrifice, discipline, or result, then we should not act surprised when they struggle later when the competition stops being easy. Sports are not supposed to protect athletes from truth. Sports are supposed to prepare them to handle it. This is the lesson we’re forgetting in youth sports, and it’s hurting our kids later in life. Build mental toughness now. The real world won’t hand out participation trophies. #YouthSports #Resilience #MentalToughness #ParticipationTrophies

🍒Nutrients that Heal🤕 • Protein promotes healing: low-fat Greek or regular yogurt, beans, fish, poultry, lean meats, & egg whites. • Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids may reduce inflammation and swelling, speeding recovery: salmon, mackerel (Pacific and Atlantic), and sardines. • Vitamin C promotes immune function and supports collagen synthesis, aiding in tissue repair and wound healing: citrus, strawberries, tomatoes, kiwi and cantaloupe. • Vitamin A aids in cell growth and development: sweet potatoes, carrots, papaya, and red bell peppers. • Zinc is involved in wound healing and immune function: almonds, sunflower seeds, beef, seafood, and pork. • Calcium and vitamin D are essential for bone development and repair. High-calcium foods include dairy products, fortified foods, leafy greens, and sardines. Vitamin D can be made naturally from sunlight and is found in fatty fish, egg yolks and fortified foods. nutritionwithwendi.com/blog/…

I love summer! Pumped for tomorrow! 4th Grade through 12th Grade, almost 400 Mustangs will be training. Thankful for the opportunity. Thankful for MV! 💪🏻⚡️

2026 Youth Speed and Agilities sign up. Please contact Joe Hardy at hardyjoe@sblschools.com

Want to get stronger? Drive that bar faster. Want to jump high? Push off the ground harder. Want to sprint faster? Fight to reach that next gear. The intent in which you do things, is more important than what you do. Intent drives performance.

Hey athletes… Want to have the BIGGEST summer transformation ever? Save this list & do these things. You’ll be a different person by September! GO: 1. Max-sprints 2-3x per week 2. Max-jumps 2-3x per week 3. Lift heavy weights 4. Lift light weights fast 5. Lift heavy weights fast 6. Throw med balls diversely 7. React to real athletes at full speed 8. Eat properly

Huge congrats to our boys for winning the MRAC Track and Field Meet tonight!! Girls finished 2nd! Great day to be a Warrior!!

MRAC Champs! 🎾

Congratulations to Carter Gehling and Brayton Ouellette for continuing their academic and golf career at Morningside!!

School Record ✅ Drake Blue Standard ✅

For decades, many incorrectly stopped younger children (especially athletes) from lifting weights They feared it would “stunt their growth.” This stemmed from lack of research, blaming poor execution of unsupervised training/bad one rep max lifts etc. It ALSO stemmed from incorrect correlations made between stunted growth of child laborers in poor countries, but this actually was due to the very poor nutrition and underrating that persisted in these poor countries This then tied to the incorrect belief that weight training would make you slow, bulky, and less flexible, but that was also only occurring when execution of training was poor & not paired with proper sprint training Youth athletes (pre puberty) are one of the populations that can benefit the MOST from heavy resistance training due to the impact it can have on their impressionable nervous systems & motor unit recruitment abilities… not to mention coordination and stability In fact, most sports put FAR MORE stresses on the body than resistance training can. They NEED IT to stay healthy Let your children lift! (Properly, of course)

This is our 2nd week of teaching our 8th graders how to hang clean. We will hammer technique for about 2 months before they roll into summer training with our high schoolers. This group trains hard and pays extreme attention to detail!

Excited for 6th Annual SBL 🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♀️Golf outing and fundraiser. Always a great time. Come join and support SBL schools and the golf program. Friday May 29th, Green Valley GC, 1:00 PM. Link 👇👇 for all the details to enter a team or to donate a pin prize. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Then sprinkle in all the other benefits: enhancing motor skills, improved mental health and confidence, building character. Just to name a few.💪🔥🧠

Strength training is linked to better grades Among 67,281 students, at 4 days/week: ↑ 42% higher odds of better literacy grades ↑ 39% for math ↑ 31% for English Benefits peaked at 4-5 days/week.

“Speed is the quality you lose the fastest.” In only 5-7 days if untrained Tennessee football performance director Derek Owings discusses how important consistent speed training is Young athletes: sprint consistently, 2-3 times per-week!

Used to control and time warm up sets on the whistle. Mixed it up about a month ago. 5 mins to complete warm up sets prior to working sets. Gives the student-athletes autonomy and some freedoms. MB JUMPS SHOTS NOT PART OF THE WARM UP🤷🤣. Yes the “Clash” is being played. 🔊🎚️

Blessed to say I lead the nation in the UA Next Camp Vertical test!! @SBLWarriorFB @SBL_APC @NESELECT7EVEN @SSI_Siouxland @PrepRedzoneIA @bobhowe @kringlenfb @TheUCReport @TomLoy247 @AdamCox38 @JoeRFootball @nick20lee @CoachHupke @CoachKHodges @joehall310 @CoachbjPatton

Great job young man. It’s been great to watch you grow. Work hard and good things will happen.