Saline soccer coach Brian Lampman makes second venture into publishing world
The types of lessons that can be learned from sports is the premise of Lampman’s second venture into the publishing world “Learning Culture Through Sports: Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports Second Edition”, which was released earlier this month.
Edited by Lampman and Sandra Spickard Prettyman, “Learning Culture Through Sports” is a collection of essays written by professors, sociologists and other authors that explore the effects sports can have on society, the same theme as the Lampman and Prettyman’s 2006 book, “Learning Culture Through Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports in Society.”
“Sports has a tremendous potential, teaching potential,” said Lampman, a teacher at Saline High School and also a contributing author. “Sport can be used as an incredible mechanism for positive change and sport can bring out the worst in people as well.
“I think coaches, we’re not doing our job if we’re only teaching the X’s and O’s of the game. There’s so much more that we can do.”
“Learning Culture Through Sports” includes 19 chapters ranging in topic from the effect of specialization on youth athletes, homophobia in sports culture, perceptions of race through sport, the effect of big business on college athletes and many more.
“We’re very happy with it and feel it has a good breadth of scholarship looking at some pretty cutting edge issues,” Lampman said. “I think the book really touches on what sport can do to champion change, and there is just so much.”
“Learning Culture Through Sports: Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports, Second Edition” is available online and at Borders in the the Arborland Mall.
Pete Cunningham is a sportwriter for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at petercunningham@annarbor.com or by phone at 734-623-2561. Follow him on Twitter @petcunningham.
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Salinedad
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 : 7:28 a.m.
My children have had the privledge of having Mr.Lampman both at the Middle School as well as at the High School and I have been provided the opportunity to participate in multiple of his field trips to the University of Michigan where he has exposed his students to the cultural challenges of sports and our society. He is a tremendous asset to the community, we are fortunate to have him as a educator. I have also seen Coach Lampman on the Soccer Field and it is tremendously exciting to see him focus on the competition of sport without the verbal punishment that some coaches feel they have the right to direct at their players, something that has become only too common in sport, whether it be at the professional level, the college level or the high school level. While he has developed one of the premier soccer programs in the state, he has never lost his cool with his players, publicly humiliated them on the sidelines when they made a mistake in the game. He has done a great job of bringing out the best in his players and in his students. When people in the community express their frustration with what is happening in our public schools, such as the inability of the SEA be willing to address the structural fiscal barriers to solvency of our school districts, it is important for students, parents and members of the community to also recognize how fortunate we are in the greater Ann Arbor area to the quality of the educators we have. Congrats to Mr. Lampman for his successful publication and thank you for all that you do every day to help our children become responsible and successful adults. THANKS!