Health & Wellness Schedule
Timeline
Friday
June 14
Performance Stations
5:00 – 6:45 pm
A&E Center
Get ready for competition readiness, game day minds, nutrition, hydration, physical activity, the Pledge Wall, and local opportunities/giveaways.
Saturday
June 15
Healthy Athletes
5:45 – 8:30 pm
A&E Center
We offer health screenings in six disciplines at this Summer Games: Funfitness, Health Promotion, Healthy Hearing, Opening Eyes, Special Smiles and Strong Minds.
Learn more about each offering:
Performance Stations are designed to educate athletes and their supporters in fitness: nutrition, hydration and physical activity. These stations directly connect fitness to sport performance, and show how incorporating these can enhance training, performance at competition, and health. There are a few different station focuses: Competition Readiness, Game Day Minds, Nutrition, Hydration, Physical Activity, The Pledge Wall, and Local Opportunities/Giveaways
Screenings will include flexibility of hamstring, calf, shoulder rotator and hip flexor muscles; functional strength of the abdominal and lower extremity muscles; and balance.
Screenings will include taking blood pressure and body mass index (BMI). The goal of this screening is to encourage and enhance healthy behaviors and improve self-efficacy and self-advocacy.
Comprehensive hearing screenings will be performed and follow-up recommendations for each athlete will be provided to detect ear/hearing issues promote regular ear/hearing screenings.
Screenings will include 12 testing stations to complete the comprehensive eye assessment to determine if an athlete needs prescription eyewear, sunglasses and/or sports goggles, which they can receive onsite.
Screenings will include instructions on correct brushing and flossing techniques.
Screening will allow athletes to identify strategies that work best for them and volunteers provide them with visual reminders to use these tools in competition and in daily living.