Brooke de lench biography

Personal life.
Brooke Cranston de Lench is an American author, filmmaker, journalist, and advocate.
Brooke de Lench is the film producer/Creator of “The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,” (PBS), author of “Home Team Advantage: The Critical.

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Brooke de Lench is the film producer/Creator of “The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,” (PBS), author of “Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports” (Harper Collins), Founding Executive Director of MomsTeam Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, a child athlete rights and sports safety watchdog and advocacy organization. De Lench is also an active child athlete rights and safety consultant for schools, sports leagues and national organizations on policy development and strategies for making sports programs safer. She is a founding coalition member for: International Safeguards of Children in Sports spearheaded by the UN/UNICEF and has recently launched the Smart-Teams.org freely available safety programs. Also the Founding Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, launched in 2000 as a trusted resource of health, safety, nutrition, and parenting information for sports parents, coaches, and the medical community. Since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, MomsTEAM has been a leader in providing comprehensive concussion ed

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MomsTEAM Institute Staff

Brooke de Lench, Executive Director

Recognized as a visionary thought leader in youth sports safety and a pioneer in concussion education for the past seventeen years, Ms. de Lench, in addition to being Founding Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, is also the Founder and Publisher of MomsTeam.com,® now beginning its 17th year as the trusted source for all sports stakeholders of comprehensive, well-researched, objective information on a wide array of youth sports health, safety, nutrition, and sports parenting topics.

Ms. de Lench is the Producer/Director/Creator of the critically acclaimed documentary The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, which shows how to reduce the high rate of concussions in high school football, and better identify and manage them when they occur. The documentary has been airing on selected PBS stations across the country since 2013.

An active journalist and blogger for MomsTEAM and The Huffington Post, Ms. de Lench is the author of "Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Spo

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de Lench, Brooke C.

PERSONAL:

Children: three sons (triplets).

ADDRESSES:

Home—Concord, MA. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Lecturer, writer. MomsTeam.com (online publication), founder and editor-in-chief, 2000—. Founder of Team of Angels (charitable organization). Lecturer and guest on radio and television programs. Formerly worked in advertising and marketing. Member of board of directors, Teams of Angels. Member of board of advisors, Institute for Preventive Sports Medicine and Matthew Colby Head Injury Foundation. Guest on numerous TV programs.

AWARDS, HONORS:

International Institute of Sports Ethics fellowship, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, Collins (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Brooke C. de Lench has extensively researched and lectured on the life of parents whose children are involved in organized sports. As a former ranked squash player, a mother of triplet sons who were involved in sports, and a former youth sports coach, she has a great deal of personal experience in the field, as well. Her