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November 28, 2012

Creating a ‘Captains Club’ at your school

Looking to develop your athletes into more responsible and respected leaders? A Captains Club (or Council) is an innovative trend catching on at several colleges and high schools across the nation and paying big dividends. Instead of just hoping t...


November 21, 2012

UT Athletic Department Takes Big Step To Fight Deficit

Daily Reporterhttp://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/4234daf2fdea4ab3b6ee272381438659/Tennessee-BudgetTennessee’s athletic department will be keeping $6 million each of the next three years instead of contributing that money annually to t...


November 21, 2012

UT Athletic Department Takes Big Step To Fight Deficit

Daily Reporterhttp://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/4234daf2fdea4ab3b6ee272381438659/Tennessee-BudgetTennessee’s athletic department will be keeping $6 million each of the next three years instead of contributing that money annually to t...


November 21, 2012

Cal AD Issues Letter After Firing Football Coach

Bay Area News Grouphttp://www.mercurynews.com/cal-bears/ci_22034564/cal-athletic-director-sandy-barbours-letter-season-ticketCal athletic director Sandy Barbour sent the following letter to donors and football season-ticket holders explaining the dec...


November 21, 2012

Cal AD Issues Letter After Firing Football Coach

Bay Area News Grouphttp://www.mercurynews.com/cal-bears/ci_22034564/cal-athletic-director-sandy-barbours-letter-season-ticketCal athletic director Sandy Barbour sent the following letter to donors and football season-ticket holders explaining the dec...


November 1, 2012

Detroit Mercy A.D. Resigns Abruptly

Detroit Free Press, Perry A. Farrell http://www.freep.com/article/20121031/SPORTS08/121031064/keri-gaither-resigns-university-of-detroit-mercy University of Detroit Mercy Athletic Director Keri Gaither resigned abruptly today. Her resi...


October 17, 2012

Building a better athlete at Muskego High School

It’s early Monday morning and Mike Nitka sits patiently in his dimly lit office at Muskego High School (Wisconsin), waiting for his freshman human performance class to crowd the adjoining locker room. [caption id="attachment_25814" align="alignr...


October 9, 2012

Building and sustaining an elite athletic program

An elite program is one that has a legitimate chance to compete for and win championships on a regular basis. It's a high-level program that almost always has highly-talented athletes, great coaching, a solid talent pipeline, strong tradition, an avi...