Oakland Roots and COPA Soccer Training Center Enter Collaboration Agreement

Walnut Creek-based Hotel, Real Estate, and Sports Technology Entrepreneur, Mark Hall, has sold his United Soccer League (“USL”) Division II Championship League Professional Sports License to the Oakland Roots Sports Club. In conjunction with this transaction, Hall’s Walnut Creek-based COPA Soccer Training Center has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Roots for covering team training events at COPASoccer Training Center, joint marketing initiatives, and advertisement and sponsorship for each organization.

“We are excited to see the Roots take their caliber of play to the next level, and to bring USL Championship matches to their Oakland based venue at Laney College. This is the beginning of a winning partnership between the Roots and COPA STC,” said Hall. Among the highlights of the partnership is the future “Roots at COPA Night” event at COPA Soccer Training Center in Walnut Creek, which will happen on one date during each season and will be coupled with a soccer camp. Also included will be a “COPA Match Night” featuring a COPASoccer Training Center themed event at one home match per season. Roots will also keep their fan base up to date on news and happenings at COPA Soccer Training Center via email communication and social media.

“We are very excited to be able to train at COPA’s state-of-the-art soccer facility, and to enter this mutually supportive collaboration,”said Steven Aldrich, Oakland Roots Chair.“COPA Soccer Training Center is one of the most advanced, data-driven, and unique training venues in the entire world, and we are thrilled to be a part of the COPA story.” The relationship is expected to result in more collaborative opportunities for growth and support between both parties.

In addition to club activations, the Oakland Roots Sports Club will utilize COPA Soccer Training as one of their training facilities, joining other professional soccer players in their team development, including players from the United States Woman’s and Men’s National Team, San Jose Earthquakes, Los Angeles Galaxy, and many other MajorLeague Soccer and United Soccer League teams. COPA Soccer Training Center is a highly advanced training facility that offers professional players, as well as the general public unique data analytics powered assessment-based approaches to individual development by leveraging sports science and technology with topflight coaches and sports science specialists. COPA is the anchor tenant of Walnut Creek’s Shadelands SportsMall, another dynamic project of Hall’s real estate development organization. Shadelands SportsMall contains 220,000 square feet of privately operated indoor sports training venues, including Soccer, Gymnastics, Basketball, Swimming, Volleyball, Baseball, and Taekwondo. Also included area fitness facility, Yoga, and food and beverage venues.

“We have been determined to bring a USL Championship team to the East Bay one way or the other, and the Roots have helped us accomplish our vision,” said Hall.“The community will now have a mainstream national profile professional soccer team to help fill the void created by the loss of the Golden State Warriors and the Oakland Raiders.”

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Effects of Physical Activity on Motor Skills and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review

Of the five studies investigating the influence of physical activity on cognitive development, four (80%) showed significant and positive changes in language learning, academic achievement, attention, and working memory.”

Physical Activity and Cognitive Functioning of Children: A Systematic Review

1. Although it is evident that physical activity is related to physical and mental health [23], the relation between physical activity and cognitive functioning requires further study. Cognitive functions include: memory, attention, visual-spatial, and executive functions, while complex cognitive processes include: thinking (abstract, cause and effect, creative thinking, and planning) and language functions [24]. Some report that sports have a positive influence [3,26,27,28,29], particularly on executive functions, which develop intensively in this period [28,30], as well as mention the positive impact of regular and irregular exercises which lead to an increase in the level of oxyhemoglobin that facilitates the operation of executive functions for up to 30 minutes [31]. Others, however, do not confirm this positive influence of physical activity on cognitive functioning [32,33].

Editorial: Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development

There is also evidence that connections between motor experiences and cognitive development may exist beyond infancy but are limited to specific domains of cognition. Specifically, two studies in this Research Topic provide evidence for a relation between motor development and mathematics in Kindergarten and primary school aged children. First, Frick and Möhring report that children’s ability to balance on one leg at age 6 years predicts their proportional reasoning skills assessed 1 year later. And second, Pitchford et al. report that fine motor skills (i.e., Fine Motor Precision and Fine Motor Integration) were a significant predictor of math abilities in 4- to 6-year-old primary school students. These studies suggest that motor skills can be predictive of cognitive skills beyond infancy—at least in the domain of mathematical cognition. Together, the studies reported in this collection suggest an interesting shift in the relation between motor skills and other developmental domains over time. Specifically, motor skills seem highly related to other developmental domains during the first 3 years of life, but this relation seems to weaken or disappear as children grow older—with the one notable exception being a positive relation between motor and math skills that persists until at least age 6.