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June 13, 2012
Coaches—Use The Summer To Get Healthy
By its very nature, the coaching profession is filled with stress and anxiety. It often taxes our minds, our bodies and our various bodily systems. Our profession is also one that frequently places a great deal of undue physical stress on our bodies ...
May 30, 2012
Handling the parent problem in your school
Recently, we surveyed our readers on an issue that grows more complicated by the year. Parents have become more emboldened about confronting coaches on issues such as playing time, roles on the team and proper exposure for their son or daughter to ea...
May 30, 2012
The ‘Coach’s Prayer’
While Coach And Athletic Director visited Arrowhead High School (Hartland, Wisconsin), writers came across this picture in the athletic office. COACH’S PRAYER Dear Lord, guide me as I try to coach this team, to build each player’s character...
May 3, 2012
Establishing pay-to-play in your high school
One athletic director provides keen insight into how his schools fee went from $150 total per athlete to $660 per sport In November 2009, just after the fall sports season of his first year on the job as athletic director at Medina High School (Oh...
April 18, 2012
A way to clamp down on cursing
In an early season football scrimmage, a halfback burst through the line, taking the first steps in what he thought would be a long run. But a tackler caught his foot and the runner hit the turf with a meager gain. "Dang!" he yelled. The coach ...
April 12, 2012
The Energetic Bear: How Baylor’s Kim Mulkey challenges her team
Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the March 2011 issue of Coach & Athletic Director. Kim Mulkey, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame coach, who stands at 5-foot-4, never is going to be confused with her 6-foot-8 superstar post player B...
April 3, 2012
New Product Allows Football Coaches To Add Users To Headset System
San Diego, CA—Winning on the football field just got easier with HM Electronics’ EB300 Extender Base, which lets coaches add more users to the company’s DX300 wireless football headset system.By connecting the EB300 to the system&rs...
March 22, 2012
Installing a preseason emergency response plan
All public and private schools have an emergency response plan that allows staff and students to respond to an emergency in an organized and safe manner. Massachusetts requires that schools to have a medical emergency response plan for injuries on...
March 2, 2012
Breaking down language barriers with athletes
The U.S. population is changing; be prepared to instruct student-athletes who don't speak perfect English. The National Education Association reports that, "America's public schools enroll about five million English language learners (ELLs) — ...
February 29, 2012
Modern devices create challenges in communication
Perhaps you have read about inappropriate behavior between teachers and students at some school districts. The fallout has given rise to an intense analysis of how these types of incidents can go undetected by school officials and district administra...
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Creating a checklist of tasks (and how often they need to be performed...