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April 30, 2015

Grant helps Washington school install turf

Grass playing fields in the rainy northwest can have disastrous results, and that’s something Tom Roys understands all too well. Less than one year ago Arlington High School (Washington) became one of the region’s last schools to switch to tur...


April 27, 2015

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...


April 5, 2015

North Carolina requiring athletic trainers at schools

North Carolina's Board of Education took a big step this week toward improving safety for high school student-athletes. [caption id="attachment_11603" align="alignright" width="257"] North Carolina's Board of Education is mandating that schools...


March 30, 2015

Compiling the perfect highlight résumé for athletes

A student athlete’s highlight film is akin to a professional résumé and requires a similar amount of preparation and revision before submission. Comparing the relative few numbers of college scholarships available to the hundreds of thousands of ...


March 26, 2015

Coaching football at small schools

Tips to help programs thrive with limited resources At small schools all around the country resources are scarce, coach to player ratios are unbalanced, football players are learning both sides of the ball and special teams, and time is a precious c...


March 23, 2015

Is high school football unsafe?

Dr. Harry Kerasidis of XLNTbrain talks about why concussions seem more prevalent at the high school level and what programs can do about it. ...


March 17, 2015

NFL linebacker retires after one season over head trauma concerns

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland announced Monday he is retiring from the league over concerns about the long-term effects of head trauma. Borland was one of the NFL's top rookies last season, starting eight games and recording 107 tac...


March 16, 2015

Constructing Camas football

How the Papermakers went from a stepping stone to powerhouse program [caption id="attachment_26794" align="aligncenter" width="490"] Photos courtesy of Camas High School[/caption] Every state has its perennial powerhouses, but the Camas football ...