{"id":3077,"date":"2013-11-20T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:52:11","slug":"liberty-tour-sparks-steenburns-athletic-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/post\/liberty-tour-sparks-steenburns-athletic-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Tour Sparks Steenburn\u2019s Athletic Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the most intriguing things about achieving any amount of athletic success is that most Athletes have no problem recalling from where they started, as if it were just yesterday.\u00a0 Even with all of the excitement of selecting the right College, setting University Records, or winning Gold Medals, it takes only seconds to go back to the day when it all began; and quickly recalling that moment in time brings great humility to the accolades of the present day.<\/p>\n

As a member of the Glencadia Bullets Track & Field team in Kinderhook, NY since 2008, Amara was just beginning to get a feel for what this Individualized Team Sport, as it is often called, had to offer her, as the options were so different from any other sport.\u00a0 How does one choose whether they should Sprint, Jump, Vault, or Throw?\u00a0 Is there a particular body shape or size that is best suited for any of the Track & Field events?\u00a0 There was only one way to find out, and that was to compete against others, and then evaluate the performances.\u00a0 She got that chance when the Glencadia Bullets introduced her to the Liberty Tour Track & Field Series, which began in 2005, and is now hosted by the Empire State Sports Council.\u00a0 \u201cAs a Sprinter myself, and having coached many Sprinters over the years (with and without \u201craw\u201d skills), my eyes are always scoping the talent at every meet\u201d, quips Executive Producer of the Liberty Tour Series, Anthony Mills.\u00a0 He adds, \u201cAmara was a very typical gangly Athlete when she began, and wasn\u2019t exactly sure how to get her body to do the things necessary to take what appeared to be raw talent, and channel it to more fine motor skill movements.\u00a0As she continues to develop and hone her skills,\u00a0it is almost scary what she could accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 7th<\/sup> grade she competed for the modified Track & Field team at Taconic Hills High School.\u00a0 With the aerobic endurance and speed to run the 400m Dash, she did not lose one race that year, and as an 8th<\/sup> grader, she moved up to the Varsity team and became very competitive.\u00a0 Upon moving to the Albany Academy for Girls (AAG) in 9th grade, she was required to run Cross Country as a Fall training event to develop some of the conditioning for both Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field.\u00a0 Amara has set numerous records at AAG in both Individual and Relay events.\u00a0 \u00a0Her time of 13.0 seconds in the 100m (FAT) is currently .01 second off the school record, which she is likely to set this spring.\u00a0 And that is just one event!\u00a0 Did I not mention that she also happens to Long Jump, Triple Jump, Hurdle, and High Jump?\u00a0 How absent minded of me!<\/p>\n

With a complete Training Schedule filled with good nutrition, Strength Training, and Sprint workouts, Amara Steenburn has a packed weekly schedule, and that only prepares her for a much busier schedule once she determines which Division I or Division II College she will attend, as she has been sought by several.\u00a0 Now in her senior year of high school, Amara continues to fuel the competitive fire inside, not yet realizing all that she can accomplish, but she does understand that it always takes a Spark to get that fire to burn!<\/p>\n

For more information on the Empire State Sports Council<\/strong>, just check out their website at www.ESSportsCouncil.org<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 You will be able to access information about all of their 2013-14<\/strong> Annual Events and Programs, especially the 3rd<\/sup><\/strong> Annual Liberty Games<\/strong>, which is slated for July 12th<\/sup> \u2013 20th<\/sup> <\/strong>in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most intriguing things about achieving any amount of athletic success is that most Athletes have no problem recalling from where they started, as if it were just yesterday.\u00a0 Even with all of the excitement of selecting the right College, setting University Records, or winning Gold Medals, it takes only seconds to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}