high school sports

Track Coach Fired for Refusing to Force Athletes to Wear Masks
A New Hampshire high school track and field coach was fired earlier this week for not making his student-athletes wear masks. Brad Keyes, a third-year track and field coach at Pembroke Academy, penned a letter to his athletic director, Fred Vezina...

Seattle-Area Referees Make Recruitment Push After 38 Percent Drop
High school basketball officials are teaming up to help recruit new referees after the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated the amount available to work in the area. According to a recent story on ScorebookLive.com, the number of referees in the greate...

Ranney School’s 80,000 sq ft. Outdoor Facelift
On the campus of a school that prides itself on producing the best and brightest of the future, it’s only fitting that the Ranney School provides its students with state-of-the-art facilities. The independent, co-ed, secular college preparator...

1-Win Michigan Basketball Team Claims District Title
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. We've all heard this cliche before, but perhaps no team has epitomized the phrase more than the Mason Country Central (MI) boys basketball team. According to a rec...

Texas UIL Updates COVID-19 Risk Guidelines Following Mask Update
The Texas University Interscholastic League (UIL) recently shared updates to its risk mitigation guidelines following Governor Greg Abbott announced an immediate rollback of its statewide mask mandate. Earlier this week, Gov. Abbott announced he's...

VA Girls’ Basketball Team Disqualified for Not Wearing Masks
A Virginia high school girls basketball team is they had a championship opportunity 'stolen' away from them after the team was disqualified from a tournament for not wearing personal protective masks. According to a report from WUSA-9, the Word of...

Preparing Your Team for Every Problem During the Season
Early in my 40-year coaching career, a colleague told me something that has proven to be true. He said, “If you stay in coaching very long, you will have teams that you don’t think are going to be very good, but they will shock you with how ...

High School Athletes Get Noticed & Recruited with New App
Student-athletes across the country are using Sports Thread 6.0, a free social networking app, announced today, to raise their online visibility and connect with college coaches in hopes of securing roster spots and college scholarships. Youth ath...