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MIAA Board of Directors Cancels Winter Tournaments
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) announced there will be no winter sports postseason tournaments for the 2020-21 school year. The MIAA Board of Directors voted 20-0 on Thursday to cancel all playoffs for the winter spo...

UAA Conference Cancels 2020-21 Winter Season
The University Athletic Association (UAA) Presidents Council has unanimously approved a resolution to cancel all formal UAA winter sport competition for the 2020-21 season. Over the last several months several UAA committees comprising athletic ad...

State Organizations Announce Start Dates for Fall Sports
A few state high school athletic organizations have announced tentative start dates for the fall sports season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA), the Florida High School Athletic Association ...

713 swimming, diving teams recognized for classroom success
The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has selected a record 713 teams from 460 institutions to the Scholar All-America Team for the fall 2018 semester. The teams were selected by the CSCAA’s Scholar All-America comm...

Eight tips for coaching girls at all levels
The goal for coaches is to win games and turn athletes into quality people. But there may come a time when you're asked to adjust your style to accommodate the opposite gender or coach a group of athletes you may not be familiar with. For some...

9 effective teaching methods for coaches
Productive coaches spend 75 percent of their time teaching the sport to their players, and the other 25 percent of the time coaching. With younger athletes, this gap increases with teaching becoming more important. The problem is that many coaches...

Track, volleyball most popular sports among U.S. high school girls
Nearly 500,000 high school girls participated in track and field during the 2016-17 school year, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations' annual survey. ...

Football still far and away most popular sport among high school boys
More than one million American boys played high school football in 2016-17. While it is still the most played sport among boys, participation decreased by more than 23,000 players from the previous year. (See chart at bottom of page.) Data compile...

U. of North Dakota cuts women’s hockey, swimming/diving
The University of North Dakota announced today that it will discontinue its varsity women’s hockey and men’s & women’s swimming/diving programs at the end of the academic year due to budget cuts. Earlier this year, UND President Mark ...

Battling overuse injuries in swimming
The general approach to training is that more is better, but that’s not always the case. Athletes at all levels understand the risks of overuse injuries, and that’s no different in swimming than it is in other sports like track and field or ba...