Camera for kids sports

A friend has asked for camera recommendations for a camera for their daughters sporting events.  I could give her advice if she was talking about landscape but not kid's sports!  She's not opposed to an SLR but I thought I would check to see if there were thoughts on a super zoom that might fit the bill. I would recommend a P510 (love mine) but don't know about the sports thing.  She never mentioned video but that would probably be good too...I'm assuming once she realized that's an option she'd like to take video.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!