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Blue Heaven
When Brady Hoke returned to Ann Arbor, 30 years after accepting his first coaching job at a small Indiana high school, it was the crowning achievement of an already polished career. Hoke hadn't yet spent one day on the sidelines or organized his firs...
Safety Precautions to Protect Student-Athletes
By Thomas L. Gowen, Locks Law Firm, Philadelphia, Pa.The NFL concussion litigation has raised awareness of the fact that concussions are serious injuries to the brain. Not restricted to professionals, they are occurring with great frequency in youth ...
Athletic Directors to Receive NIAAA Distinguished Service Award
The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association will present nine athletic directors with the 2013 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of their length of service, accomplishments and contributions to interscholastic sports. Th...
D.C. Area Athletic-Based Transfers Becoming an Alarming Trend
Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/in-district-high-schools-athletic-based-transfers-are-becoming-an-alarming-trend/2013/12/03/629a192a-5af3-11e3-801f-1f90bf692c9b_story.htmlThe District’s high school football champ...

Eight unique ideas to promote non-core sports
Dr. Carol R. Chory, CMAA, the director of athletics at Kempsville High School (Virginia Beach, Virginia) shared these eight unique ways to make the non-core sports athletes and coaches feel important at her school. 1. Rainy day practices. Make s...

Making Your Events Safe for Spectators
Jay Hammes, the athletic director at Racine Horlick High School (Racine, Wis.), offers his take on how to keep your facilities, fans, players, coaches and administrators safe during an athletic event. In the second video, he urges athletic directors ...

11 attributes of effective athletic administrators
As all coaches know, effective athletic administrators can make your job measurably easier and a little less stressful, while poor athletic administrators can be a nightmare to work for and a big reason you leave. Here are the top 11 attributes ...

Eight sure-fire strategies for building a thriving program
Transforming a declining or problematic program into a rising program is definitely a challenge. There will be many weeks when it feels like you are taking two steps forward and sometimes just as many backward as the negative gravity of the situation...








