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Physical day for 2011-12 Mountain Pointe High School athletes will take place on Saturday, May 21 from 8 a.m. to noon in the auxiliary gym, 4201 E. Knox Road.

Foothills Sports Medicine

The NFL recently started a program called Play 60. It uses public service announcements to encourage 60 minutes of play everyday. The program promotes the national guidelines for children that recommend at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. The recommended activity can come from any of the five different types of physical activity in the Physical Activity Pyramid. But for optimal health benefits, some of the activity should be vigorous in nature. Vigorous activity includes vigorous aerobic activity and vigorous sports and recreation.

The NFL recently started a program called Play 60. It uses public service announcements to encourage 60 minutes of play everyday. The program promotes the national guidelines for children that recommend at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. The recommended activity can come from any of the five different types of physical activity in the Physical Activity Pyramid. But for optimal health benefits, some of the activity should be vigorous in nature. Vigorous activity includes vigorous aerobic activity and vigorous sports and recreation.

A free lecture on diabetes and your health will be offered on Thursday, April 21 at 6 p.m. at Spooner Physical Therapy, 16611 S. 40th St., Suite 130.

Foothills Sports Medicine Physical Therapy in Ahwatukee received the Outcomes Excellence Award from Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. for exceeding the national average for functional change for four consecutive quarters. Foothills Sports Medicine continues to help patients reach their goals and return to pre-injury condition. Foothills Sports Medicine Physical Therapy is at 15410 S. Mountain Parkway. Visit www.foothillsrehab.com for more information.

Norris Vaughan is man of conviction with strong beliefs and high standards.

To Matthew Mixer, physical education is not just about improving your shot in basketball or shortening your mile time. To the Horizon Community Learning Center's elementary physical education teacher, it is about having fun but it is also about preparing mentally and socially for the challenges ahead.

Mountain Pointe coach Norris Vaughan had enough of the indecision, the botched plays in the backfield and mini-identity crisis the Pride offense has dealt with in recent weeks.

Mountain Pointe coach Norris Vaughan had enough of the indecision, the botched plays in the backfield and mini-identity crisis the Pride offense has dealt with in recent weeks.

Mountain Pointe coach Norris Vaughan had enough of the indecision, the botched plays in the backfield and mini-identity crisis the Pride offense has dealt with in recent weeks.

Nearly 20 students from Mountain Pointe High School gave spectators a glimpse into their daily physical education activities on Thursday at the Arizona Adapted Physical Education Conference in Phoenix.

Parents of school-aged kids may remember taking a physical fitness test that involved running the 50-yard dash and performing a zig-zag run (shuttle run) along with other tests such as the pull-up. Grandparents may remember throwing a softball, running or walking 600 yards, or doing the flexed arm hang. Over time youth physical fitness tests have changed. Now the national test, called FITNESSGRAM, produced by the Cooper Institute in Dallas and co-sponsored by the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition and the American Alliance for Health Physical Education and Recreation, includes test items that relate to health rather than sports-related test items included in earlier tests.

Dignity Health’s Urgent Care centers in Ahwatukee, Gilbert and Queen Creek are offering sports physicals for all ages for $25. Simply call your preferred location and the Urgent Care will call you when it’s your turn to see the doctor, so you can wait in the comfort of your own home.