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July 30, 2024
The growing divide between club sports and high school athletics
A significant shift is occurring in the evolving landscape of youth athletics. The rise of club sports is increasingly overshadowing traditional high school sports programs. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for athletic administrators and coac...
July 30, 2024
13 tips for creating a student-athlete code of conduct
It is fairly common for high school athletic programs to have codes of conduct for their student-athletes. These documents detail the standards that athletes are expected to meet and guide their deportment to maintain their place on a team. In par...
June 10, 2024
Insights into coaching at all three NCAA divisions
We all know how dissimilar all the collegiate levels are from one another. The athletic department budgets of NCAA Division I schools are significantly larger, and facilities are more impressive. This disparity is well documented, but what about the ...
June 10, 2024
Cross-training for sport-specific athletes
Among youth sports, a hot topic is whether or not athletes should play multiple sports throughout the year. Playing multiple sports will improve strength, coordination, and conditioning. This is a way for athletes to avoid overtraining and create mus...
June 4, 2024
Best practices for track and court maintenance
The greatest juggling act schools are doing right now is trying to prioritize the maintenance duties of each facility. Trying to keep those balls in the air is exhausting. Here’s a quick roadmap of how to navigate this season. Track Maintenance:...
June 4, 2024
Mitigating run-ins with problematic parents
While most parents of athletes are good, supportive people, there are usually a small handful in many settings who are misguided, irritating, and downright problematic. It only takes a very small group to disrupt your program and give you migraine he...
May 22, 2024
Hiring an athletic trainer to your department
Hiring an athletic trainer for your school is one of the most important hires an athletic director makes in his or her career. Athletic trainers are healthcare professionals who are specifically trained to care for injuries and illnesses suffered ...
May 22, 2024
Former Toledo assistant coach sues school for $10M
A former University of Toledo assistant football coach is suing the institution after he claims to have been wrongfully fired due to his race and age. Craig Kuligowski is seeking more than $10 million in damages from Toledo after being fired in Ja...
May 1, 2024
MD athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks
A Maryland athletic director has been accused of using AI to impersonate a principal on an audio recording making racist comments, according to authorities last week. Dazhon Darien, a former teacher and athletic director at Pikesville High School us...
May 1, 2024
NFHS approve 6 rule changes for high school wrestling
Beginning with the 2024-25 season, high school wrestlers will be inbounds with only one point of contact of either wrestler inside or on the boundary line. This fundamental change to high school wrestling was one of six major changes impacting alm...
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