{"id":7526,"date":"2018-06-11T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/11\/one-of-the-cruelest-twists-in-youth-sports\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:51","slug":"one-of-the-cruelest-twists-in-youth-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/one-of-the-cruelest-twists-in-youth-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the cruelest twists in youth sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36400\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36400 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Bill-Pierce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 340px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 340\/227;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Pierce, Furman University Department of Health Sciences<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Female distance runners tend to hit their stride in their teens. Whether they can sustain top speeds as they reach their early 20s is anybody&#8217;s guess. In an article appearing in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/08\/sports\/katelyn-tuohy.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong>, Furman University health sciences professor Bill Pierce unpacks why the careers of teen phenoms often stall as they grow older. Pierce, co-founder of the Furman\u00a0Institute of Running and Scientific Training, said, \u201c[Teenagers] are nothing but skin and bones and lungs in their early years\u201d and don&#8217;t necessarily develop the strength and lung capacity to swiftly move a larger frame as they mature.<\/p>\n<p>With Furman health sciences professor Scott Murr, Pierce is co-author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Runners-World-Train-Smart-Forever-ebook\/dp\/B01IIQQFDI\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1528737795&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Runner%27s+World+Train+Smart%2C+Run+Forevertrain+smart+run+forever\">Runner&#8217;s World Train Smart, Run Forever: How to Become a Fit and Healthy Lifelong Runner by Following The Innovative 7-Hour Workout Week<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female distance runners tend to hit their stride in their teens. Whether they can sustain top speeds as they reach their early 20s is anybody&#8217;s guess. In an article appearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":18094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}