coaching
The year-round blueprint for strength, speed, and durability for your football program
As strength coaches, it is our job to minimize our athletes’ risk of injury while maximizing their overall athletic potential. When designing our training, we should see a program that varies in intensity and volume, while building on itself. Th...
Seven must-read books for coaches and athletic directors in 2026
Books are great resources to teach coaches and athletic administrators about philosophy, leadership, and team building. We regularly speak with athletic administrators who assign books to their coaching staff or coaches who require their captains to ...
Hall of Fame coaches share how they led their teams to greatness
In a chosen profession, what could be better than having vast sources of knowledge and expertise readily available to benefit from? With coaching, there are role models in every sport who possess elite skillsets, and lessons can be derived if wanted....
How to engage with alumni and build support
Unless you conduct exit interviews with graduating seniors, and even if you do, you may not be totally sure that they gained the desired life-long values and qualities that are the goals of the education-based philosophy. With your commitment and the...
Bison Inc. adds more than 85,000 square feet of manufacturing space
U.S. sports equipment manufacturer Bison, Inc. now includes over 140,000 square feet of manufacturing space with the move of all storage, design, fabrication, coating, and packaging departments to its 1100 SW 6th Street warehouse and shipping locatio...
The subtle art of coaching both men’s and women’s sports
As a former coach of many years to both men's and women's intercollegiate teams, I have been asked numerous times to compare the diverse experiences. My answer is usually similar each time, which is that there are both parallels and contrasts between...
How to handle mental health issues in the female student-athlete
Mental health among college athletes is rapidly gaining the attention it deserves — and for good reasons. College is a pressure cooker of academic, athletic, and social demands, but the load often comes with additional, unseen challenges for female...
Advice on starting a strength & conditioning program
My name is Daniel Rochester, and for the last nine years, I have been the head strength and conditioning coach at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, SC. Prior to this, I was the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning at Furman University in...
