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December 12, 2012

Increasing Your Participation Rates

Sponsored By:Increasing Your Participation RatesMary Institute and Country Day School (St. Louis, Mo.) is part of the inaugural Coach And Athletic Director Interscholastic Program Of Excellence class. Director of Athletics Don Maurer explains how his...


November 28, 2012

Instituting an emergency action plan

The most important responsibility of individuals who have administrative duties with athletic departments and sport organizations is not to win games. Most assuredly, it's critical to establish and maintain a safe environment for training and com...


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 13, 2012

Nominate Coaches For A National Award

Let’s face it. Coaching youth basketball requires a huge commitment of time, energy and emotion. Of course, there also can be tremendous personal reward in the satisfaction that you are helping develop our nation’s youth. At Positive Coaching Allia...


November 5, 2012

Lessiter Publications’ Team Sports Division Expands Sales Team

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – (November 5, 2012) The Team Sports Division of Lessiter Publications has appointed Fox Associates as its advertising sales consultants for Coach And Athletic Director, Winning Hoops and The Real AAU magazines and its related ...


October 17, 2012

Finding focus during your practices

Trying to figure out a way to focus your team for better performances and more quality practices? Focused athletes are essential to your success. You need to have athletes who can concentrate fully on the task at hand for an extended period of tim...


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...


October 8, 2012

Selling athletes short with running as punishment

What are two of the top complaints about teenagers today? Their command of the English language is suspect, at best, and they're becoming overweight and lazier by the day. So, why are teachers continuing to punish out-of-line students by forcing them...