Nationality American Name Brooke Lench | Role Author | |
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Born February 15, 1952 (age 72)
Plymouth, Massachusetts ( 1952-02-15 ) Occupation Child rights in sports advocate Books Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports Organizations founded Teams of Angels, MomsTEAM Institute, Inc. | ||
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Brooke Cranston de Lench (born February 15, 1952) is an American author, filmmaker, journalist, and advocate. Her advocacy focuses predominantly on athlete safety, welfare and rights in youth sports and in 2013 she founded the non-profit organization MomsTeam Youth Sports Safety Institute, frequently referred to as "MomsTeam". That same year she had her directorial debut with the film The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, which aired on PBS.
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Personal life
De Lench was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, raised in Duxbury, Massachusetts and Stratton Mountain, Vermont and later practiced lacrosse in high school. She currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts and is the mother of triplet sons.
Career
De Lench has participated in awareness campaigns, initiatives, and organizations that focus on raising awareness on athlete safety, welfare and rights in youth sports, and has spoken on this topic at several national summits and symposia.
In 2003 she launched the nonprofit organization Teams of Angels, which supports families of children that have died or been severely injured in youth sports. In 2013 she founded the MomsTeam Youth Sports Safety Institute, which raises awareness of health, nutrition and safety best practices in youth sports. De Lench serves as the organization's executive director and in 2014 she, along with MomsTeam, organized the SmartTeams Play Safe summit at the Harvard Medical School. Through the organization she has also launched a program called SmartTeams, which endorses the use of ideas and new technology that could minimize common issues with youth sports.