(TROY,
MI) – Phil Loomis represented the City of
Troy at the Second Annual International Youth Conditioning Association (IYCA)
Summit in Louisville, KY, February 10-14, 2010.
Loomis
is the first and only IYCA certified Level 2 Youth Fitness, Speed/Agility, and
Youth Nutrition specialist in Southeast Michigan.
The IYCA’s task is to enhance the
knowledge of youth sports/fitness professionals and volunteers throughout the
world via intensive educational opportunities as well as continuing education
requirements. The main purpose of the
IYCA is to assist in the evolution of the youth athletic/fitness industry by
regulating the knowledge and skill of the individuals who work within it.
The International Youth Conditioning
Association is the premier international authority with respect to athletic
development and youth participant-based conditioning. They validate research and provide appropriate
examples of practical application for working with young athletes and youth
participants at large. IYCA also establishes
industry norms with respect to safe, effective and clinically sound means of
optimally developing injury-free, emotionally sound and functionally gifted
young athletes and participants.
Incorporated in 2004, the goal at the
International Youth Conditioning Association (IYCA) is to unite the youth
fitness and sports industry by providing a solid leadership and defining voice within the field of conditioning and developing youngsters.
The IYCA is a collaboration of
professionals from the sport science, athletic, and sport medicine communities.
Membership is comprised of conditioning
professionals, personal fitness trainers, exercise physiologists, athletic
trainers as well as other sports medicine professionals, coaches, teachers,
fitness and sport facility managers as well as students. Membership base also
includes volunteer sport coaches, officials, parents and youth sport
executives.
Please
contact Phil Loomis at 248.526.2657.ext #2 for details on youth fitness
programs at the Troy Community Center. The
Troy Community Center is located at 3179 Livernois. For more information, call 248.524.3484 or
see www.troymi.gov/ParksRec for information about the many other
activities offered through the Troy Parks and Recreation Department.
# # #