athletic director
The athletic director as CEO: Balancing leadership, management
[caption id="attachment_43630" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Athletic directors must balance leadership and management to build successful programs, support coaches and strengthen communities.[/caption] Almost everywhere you turn in athletics, ...
Preparing future athletic leaders through mentorship, experience
If you’ve spent any amount of time around an athletic department office, you know this: Nobody stumbles into becoming an athletic director. They might stumble into coaching, they might stumble into helping in the concession stand or taking a tu...
How fundraising diversification can reshape school athletics
[caption id="attachment_43497" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Sharefax Field at West Clermont High School in Batavia, Ohio[/caption] For generations, athletic fundraising followed a predictable and familiar model. Cheerleaders washed cars. Socce...
Enhancing the Student-Athlete Experience the Marysville Way
In the Marysville Athletic Department, we talk a lot about our purpose in interscholastic athletics and why we do what we do, and there is a huge emphasis on the student-athlete experience. For most, the four years that student-athletes have to ...
A.D.ministration: The AD & The ATC
In one’s role as an athletic administrator, you have to develop working relationships with a number of people. Obviously, you interact with coaches, athletes, and administrators. Also throw parents into this mix, as well as teachers, officials, col...
William & Mary AD Resigns After Slashing Athletics
In the last month, the William & Mary athletics department has been ravaged by program cuts. Seven of the department's 23 programs — men's and women's swimming, men's and women's gymnastics, men's indoor and outdoor track and field, and women's...
International State of the Industry: A survey of athletic directors worldwide
At times, working in an international school can leave you feeling absolutely isolated. You could be located thousands of miles from your nearest likeminded school and even then the school is different in size, demographics, budget, facilities, c...
A.D.ministration: Leading your program in times of change
[caption id="attachment_27815" align="aligncenter" width="490"] Photo: Jon Ridinger, Flickr[/caption] In the world of high school athletics, or life for that matter, change is a constant. While it can be good or bad, something is always changing. ...
