athletic administration

big ten
August 12, 2020

Big Ten, Pac-12 Officially Cancel Football Season

The hits keep on coming to the college sports season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, both the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences — two pillars of the "Power 5" conferences — announced that the historic leagues will be forgoing their football ...


return
August 11, 2020

Ready to Return: A Snapshot Into 3 Schools Attempting To Resume Athletic Activities

With schools and organizations rearing to resume athletic activities amid the COVID-19 pandemic — with some having already begun playing live games — ensuring the safety of coaches, student-athletes and staff members is priority number one for at...


football
August 11, 2020

College Sports Fall Season in Jeopardy

With each passing day, it's becoming more and more unlikely a fall sports season will happen for many college programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently three small NCAA Division I conferences announced the indefinite postponement of scheduled ...


severe weather
August 10, 2020

Eye of the Storm: Using Integrated Technology to Track Severe Weather

On average, the state of Oklahoma gets hit by 52 tornadoes per year. With the constant concern of severe weather, athletic administrators from Hennessey High School in Hennessey, Oklahoma must be prepared for the event of a tornado and how to protect...


chsaa
August 6, 2020

CHSAA Rolls Out 4-Season Plan

The Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) announced an alteration to its approach of the varsity sports season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. CHSAA commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green rolled out a four-season calendar for the 2020-21 sch...


August 5, 2020

Five Questions to Ask about LED Sports Lighting

{Sponsored} The evolutionary process of sports lighting hit the fast-forward button a little less than a decade ago. That, as you’ll recall, was when LED arrived on the scene.  Suddenly, lighting was more than just a utility. It was a way to en...


hull
August 4, 2020

Hull’s Home-Field Advantage With A View

At the tip of the peninsula in the town of Hull, Massachusetts, where three bodies of water converge upon a narrow piece of land, you can find the student-athletes of the Hull High School Pirates.  With a sprawling view of the Boston Harbor off i...


volunteer
August 3, 2020

11 Tips In Finding Volunteers & Support Personnel

For some athletic administrators, it may be difficult to find volunteers or support personnel to run the concession stand at contests, to man the chains at football games, to operate the scoreboard and a host of other tasks.   Most individuals w...