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NASCAR team to honor Wes Leonard

STATESVILLE, N.C. (WOOD) - Wes Leonard will be honored during the NASCAR Spring Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway later this month.

Leonard, 16, collapsed after hitting the game-winning shot for his Fennville High School basketball team against Bridgman on March 3. An autopsy showed the junior died from sudden cardiac arrest.

Travis Kvapil's No. 38 Ford will be sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and will carry the logo of the Wes Leonard Heart Team on its rear quarter panels.

The foundation was set up in the teen's memory to honor children who have lost their lives to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and to prevent similar tragedies from occurring.

Leonard's parents, brother and grandparents and members of the foundation will be special guests of the No. 38 team at the June 19 race.

The Wes Leonard Heart Team was formed to lobby for legislation providing schools with automated electronic defibrillators (AEDs) and staff training to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in student athletes, and to raise research funds for the effective detection of heart ailments that can cause SCA.

"What happened to Wes just broke my heart," said Bob Jenkins, owner of Front Row Motorsports' No. 38 Ford. "I have teenaged kids, Travis has a teenaged daughter. Something like this really hits home with a parent. We just want to help raise awareness for the Wes Leonard Heart Team and, at the same time, give the family a day to remember at the race track."

The family and foundation hope the public attention will raise more awareness for their cause, so no parent will have to go through what they endured.

"No parent should have to watch their child die - ever," said Jocelyn Leonard, Wes' mother. "We may not have had a lot of signs to know that he had an enlarged heart, so we have to know how to restart that same heart. You cannot look at someone and say how young they are, or they are so fit. You have to look at the distress signs you are seeing and react accordingly. All gyms and schools should have working AEDs and staff that have an emergency response plan to put that life-saving equipment into use."

"The Wes Leonard Heart Foundation would like to thank Front Row Motorsports and driver Travis Kvapil for their generosity and support for raising awareness for the Wes Leonard Heart Team," said Tony Petkus, Fennville High School athletic director and Heart Team member.

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Factors behind errors in shooting are listed below, coupled with suggestions teaching how to correct them.

Error: Your shot is short.

Correction: An attempt which may be short will likely be as a consequence of not using your legs, an incomplete follow-through, or even slow or uneven rhythm. Through feel just be allowed to determine whether it's good to emphasize force through your legs, complete follow-through be preserving your arm getting the club the ball reaches the basket, or a much paced rhythm.

Error: Your shot is long.

Correction: Your shooting arm is extending on too flat a trajectory (below 45 degrees). Raise the shooting arm higher as you shoot investing a higher arc on the shot (45 to 60 degrees). You happen to be leaning shoulders back given that the shoot. Shoot in your head and shoulders going forward and upward toward the rim just like you follow-through. Both your hands are positioned past the boundary as well as the other on the golf ball preventing you from lifting the ball. Move your hands closer together.

Error: Your shot is inconsistently short or long.

Correction: You most likely have incomplete and inconsistent elbow extension upon your shots. Extend your arm with complete elbow extension on follow-through.

Error: Your shot hits the perfect side for the rim (right-handed shot).

Correction: That you are either not squared up facing the basket, or you do start your shot in the ball set in front of your face and unfortunately your elbow out causing your arm to supply to the correct over the shot. Commence with the entire body square within the basket. Set the ball within the shooting side of your own head between your ear and shoulder along with your shooting hand facing the top for the rim. This can show you how to shoot in your arm wrist and fingers going straight toward the basket.

Error: Your shot hits the left side from the rim (right-handed shot).

Correction: That you're either not squared up facing the basket, or if you are starting your shot aided by the ball set on your right hip or very far to your own right contributing to shoving the ball from ability to left while you shoot. Shoving the ball is definitely a fault that is a result of not with your legs for power. Beging with the body square into the basket.

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