Brooke de Lench

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First name
Brooke
Last name
de Lench
Gender
Female
ZIP Code
02451
Birthday
02/15/2009
Blog Title
Our Kids, Their Sports
Title
MomsTeam Publisher/Editor In Chief & Youth Sports Expert
Biography

Brooke de Lench, author of HOME TEAM ADVANTAGE: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins 2006), is the Founder, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of MomsTeam.com.

Brooke is an International Institute of Sports Ethics Fellow, and is on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Preventive Sports Medicine and for the Matthew Colby Head Injury Foundation. She also established and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Teams of Angels, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to reducing catastrophic injury in youth sports.

Brooke writes a monthly syndicated newspaper column, OUR KIDS, THEIR SPORTS. Her feature articles have appeared in parenting papers across the country. She is a sought-after lecturer on a wide range of youth sport parenting topics. She is also a featured speaker in the Harper Collins Speakers Bureau.

Brooke has been featured on major TV networks -- ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox -- and contributed to two documentaries on youth sports, which aired on HBO and A&E respectively. She has consulted for HBO Real Sports and ESPN youth sports related shows. She is quoted frequently in the print press, including Time, Reader's Digest, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post and her articles have appeared on the op-ed pages of major newspapers nationwide, including The Washington Post and Long Island Newsday.

A sought after public speaker at the community and national level on a wide variety of topics.

A former high school and college athlete and ranked squash player, Brooke is the mother and past coach of three sons. She lives in the Boston area.

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