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How to Climb the Career Ladder
https://youtu.be/X0id391UXgo Charles Welde, wide receivers coach at Victor Valley College in California, talks about "making yourself valuable" and how coaches can climb the ladder to reach their career goals....
Building Team Leaders
https://youtu.be/YYfPeDb2hKs Charles Welde, wide receivers football coach at Victor Valley College in California, talks about teaching players to become team leaders....
Indiana to consider implementing ‘past-link’ rule
The Indiana High School Athletic Association may consider implementing a new rule that would strengthen penalties on some student-athlete transfers. Referred to as the "past-link" rule, student-athletes would be ineligible for 365 days if it's est...
Nine Alabama HS football coaches earn six-figure salaries
Nine Alabama high school football coaches are pulling in six-figure salaries, according to data compiled by AL.com. The website published an article Sunday, looking at the rapidly increasing salaries for high school football coaches across the sta...
Controversial bill advancing through Florida legislature
A controversial bill that could reshape the way high school sports are governed in Florida is headed to the state Senate. The House passed the bill on Wednesday, bringing the proposal one step closer to overhauling prep sports across the state. Cr...
Pac-12 survey finds athletes ‘too exhausted to study’
A Pac-12 study has found that student-athletes spend on average 50 hours per week with their sport, making them "too exhausted to study effectively." Findings from the study were discussed at a symposium last week that was not open to the public o...
A.D.ministration: Promoting ethics in high school sports
The concept of ethics is really fairly easy to define. In simple terms, it's doing what is right — not one time, but all the time and under all conditions. The problems come with interpretations and personalities, and athletics, by nature, is ex...
Ill. senator introduces bill to improve protection for athletes
An Illinois senator on Thursday introduced legislation that would improve the process of identifying and treating concussions in young athletes nationwide. [caption id="attachment_11620" align="alignright" width="250"] Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has ...
The 5 leaders every team needs
Finding and developing just one effective leader can be challenging enough for most teams. However, in actuality, you really need five kinds of leaders if your program is going to be successful on and off the playing field: performance leaders, locke...
Survey: Does hazing take place in your school?
In March, Coach and Athletic Director asked readers whether they believed or had knowledge of hazing in their athletic programs. Respondents' identities are anonymous, but the results show that just one-quarter of athletic administrators and coaches...