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April 21, 2015

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...


April 20, 2015

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...


April 17, 2015

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 ...


April 16, 2015

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...


April 16, 2015

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...


April 15, 2015

Survey: Prep coaches uninterested in injury prevention programs

A new survey of high school coaches found that less than 10 percent of them implement injury prevention programs as designed. The study looked at 66 basketball and soccer coaches at 15 Oregon high schools who completed online surveys questioning t...


April 14, 2015

Western Kentucky suspends swimming and diving program

Western Kentucky University announced today it is suspending the swimming and diving program for five years after an investigation discovered multiple Title IX violations. [caption id="attachment_11626" align="alignright" width="191"] Western Kent...


April 13, 2015

Coach like you’re speaking a different language

Each of the past two offseasons, I had the pleasure of traveling to the other side of the world to run a week-long camp for 40 of Taiwan’s best high school baseball players, as identified by the Chinese Taipei Baseball Federation. This is basically...