Word: burnout
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...sport where burnout nips at each athlete's heel, Harvard tried to take full advantage of its four month break...
...gets cut done a lot so we do more off the court work and hit only a few times a week," junior Julia Kim said. "In tennis a lot of players have been playing since they were 10 or 11 so the off-season is very important to avoid burnout...
Little Martina is in the vanguard of a new generation of players that also includes 15-year-olds Anna Kournikova and Venus Williams. But it's the last generation of teenyboppers as far as the Women's Tennis Association is concerned. Mindful of the burnout suffered by child prodigies Jennifer Capriati, Andrea Jaeger and Tracy Austin, the w.t.a. has instituted new age restrictions: players 14 and under are barred from tour events, and players 15 to 17 will be gently introduced to topflight competition. Hingis, Kournikova and Williams turned pro before the rules went into effect, so they are exempt...
...nation's shame," says Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services. There has been an alarming 25% rise in cases between 1988 and 1993, a year when 2.9 million incidents were reported to child-welfare agencies and 1,028 kids died of maltreatment. At the same time, burnout and budget cuts are steadily thinning the ranks of child-welfare workers, and those who remain are juggling unwieldy case- loads with dwindling resources. In 22 states and the District of Columbia, child-protection systems have been ruled inadequate by the courts and now operate under some form of judicial supervision...
Coming onto the professional tennis scene at age 13, hounded by agents, multi-million dollar contracts and the press, Capriati was an accident waiting to happen. Before she turned professional, many people feared that she would burnout at a young...