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August 7, 2025
How to handle mental health issues in the female student-athlete
Mental health among college athletes is rapidly gaining the attention it deserves — and for good reasons. College is a pressure cooker of academic, athletic, and social demands, but the load often comes with additional, unseen challenges for female...
June 23, 2025
Advice on starting a strength & conditioning program
My name is Daniel Rochester, and for the last nine years, I have been the head strength and conditioning coach at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, SC. Prior to this, I was the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning at Furman University in...
June 16, 2025
OHSAA announces revamped football playoff structure
Several significant changes highlight the 2025 Ohio High School Athletic Association football playoff regulations that were approved Thursday by the OHSAA Board of Directors. The number of qualifiers per region will be 12 instead of 16, with the top ...
June 9, 2025
Texas high school reinstates legendary swim coach for boys’ team, but not girls
One of the most decorated high school swim coaches in Texas has been reinstated as the boys' swim coach of Southlake Carroll High School, but not the girls' team. Kevin Murphy's reinstatement comes nearly a month after the school reassigned him fr...
June 4, 2025
Promoting transformational coaching in your athletic programs
Research has indicated that a coach can have a significant impact on an athlete’s life. It did on mine, and yet the National Alliance for Youth Sports indicates that 70 percent of youth athletes quit sports by age 13 or 14. Surely, there are sev...
April 22, 2025
NFHS approve use of backstroke ledges in swimming
State high school associations may adopt rules permitting the use of backstroke ledges during swimming competitions starting in the 2025-26 school year. Rule 2-7-3 was approved by the NFHS Swimming and Diving Rules Committee during its annual meet...
April 22, 2025
Studies show social media use inhibits performance
From sleep deprivation to social isolation to attention fragmentation, social media use for youth and high school students is harmful. The academic literature suggests it is the cause of the mental health crisis we face today in our country. What ...
April 22, 2025
Schools pursuing naming rights for athletic facilities
Soon after Aaron Zupka took over as athletic director at Milford High School, he knew his department would need to produce creative fundraising ideas. Two months after he started his new position, local voters in his school’s eastern Cincinnati cou...
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