coaching

December 27, 2012

6 strategies to have players buy into your program

While there are several factors that go into creating winning teams and individuals, perhaps the single most important one is commitment. Lots of people have dreams but amazingly few have the commitment necessary to pursue them relentlessly. Commitme...


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Manage The Expectations Of Parents And Athletes

Sponsored By:Manage The Expectations Of Parents And AthletesKAs part of the extensive program overview feature we ran in the September issue of Coach And Athletic Director, we sat down with Vince Mancuso, the head baseball coach at Arrowhead High Sch...


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Increasing Your Participation Rates

Sponsored By:Increasing Your Participation RatesMary Institute and Country Day School (St. Louis, Mo.) is part of the inaugural Coach And Athletic Director Interscholastic Program Of Excellence class. Director of Athletics Don Maurer explains how his...


December 10, 2012

North Dakota Coaches Go Barefoot For Charity

The Associated Presshttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/basketball/ncaa/wires/12/07/2060.ap.bkc.samaritan.s.feet.1st.ld.writethru.1014/ More than 25 years ago, a missionary in Nigeria gave a 9-year-old boy his first pair of shoes and told him to dr...


November 13, 2012

Brian Kelly’s formula for success

[caption id="attachment_25817" align="aligncenter" width="485"] Photos courtesy of the University of Cincinnati[/caption] Editor’s Note: This piece originally ran in the January 2010 issue of Coach & Athletic Director magazine, which was the...


November 13, 2012

Nominate Coaches For A National Award

Let’s face it. Coaching youth basketball requires a huge commitment of time, energy and emotion. Of course, there also can be tremendous personal reward in the satisfaction that you are helping develop our nation’s youth. At Positive Coaching Allia...


November 5, 2012

Lessiter Publications’ Team Sports Division Expands Sales Team

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – (November 5, 2012) The Team Sports Division of Lessiter Publications has appointed Fox Associates as its advertising sales consultants for Coach And Athletic Director, Winning Hoops and The Real AAU magazines and its related ...


October 10, 2012

How to refuel during competition

The pros and cons of sports drinks, energy gels, liquid food supplements and energy bars The myriad sport-specific fueling options available to athletes today means it's much easier to refuel while on the move. You, and your athletes, are not alone,...