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Axon Sports Online Baseline Test

Axon Sports Sales and Marketing Representative Sara Grip shares the importance of their online Baseline Test for players and coaches when dealing with players who may face concussions. She highlights the Test’s flexiblity, ease of implementatio...


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Axon Sports Online Baseline Test

Axon Sports Sales and Marketing Representative Sara Grip shares the importance of their online Baseline Test for players and coaches when dealing with players who may face concussions. She highlights the Test’s flexiblity, ease of implementatio...


March 20, 2011

Balancing the athletic director job with family

Our position as athletic director is extremely time-intensive, demanding and unforgiving. It's not uncommon to have contests scheduled every day of the week, some during the evening in either the stadium or gym, and even some on Saturdays. Our one...


March 20, 2011

Football: Defense in the ‘coming out’ zone

Ask any football coach, and he'll tell you that the most important area or zone on the field is the red zone. He'll also tell you that the success or failure of a team usually rides on how well it executes in the 20-to-goal-line area. Even fan...


November 4, 2010

Maximizing Practice Time for the Wing-T Offensive Line

Offensive line coaches can borrow a phrase from high school English teachers as a guiding principle in the use of alliteration: “Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents Poor Performance Pain.”If the coach’s goal is to maximize practice time, incre...


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September 22, 2010

Interviewing candidates for your coaching vacancy

There is a coaching vacancy in your athletic department, you have advertised the position and résumés have arrived. Now what? Certainly you need to conduct interviews, but there are a whole host of considerations and decisions to make before you...


August 23, 2010

Drills for inbounding the basketball

Probably the most rewarding part of coaching basketball is breaking down the game to eliminate mistakes. The most successful coaches have the ability to see the little things that win or lose games. One of those simple "little things" has to be th...


July 26, 2010

Tip From The Trenches – More SNAPP Suggestions

Editor’s Note: This is the continuation of Ken Mannie’s August 2010 article appearing in the print edition of Coach & Athletic Director.More SNAPP Suggestions: Gaining and maintaining good, solid muscle weight can be a problem for som...