Recently added articles from Coach and Athletic Director:
Here below.(Lute Olson)
Dec 01, 2008; Newell, Kevin ... SALUTE TO LUTE ... With college basketball season underway we can't help but feel that some big part of the game is missing. His name: Lute Olson. The venerable and classy Arizona coach's retirement prior to the season, after an illustrious 24 years on the bench in ...
Power tools: choosing strength training equipment.(POWERLINE)
Dec 01, 2008; Mannie, Ken ... The evolution of strength training equipment is taking place at such a breakneck pace that if you blink, you might miss something. Conversely, a cadre of items from the past has been spruced-up, cosmetically enhanced, given a catchy moniker, and recycled. In either case, the ...
Lifesaving techniques for the sea of paperwork.(A.D.MINISTRATION)
Dec 01, 2008; Hoch, David ... Several years ago, futurists proclaimed that the computer would eliminate the use of paper, or at least highly reduce it. Unfortunately, for some of us, it feels like the reverse happened. There seemingly is more paperwork than ever. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While you ...
Maximizing your athletes' acceleration.(GameSpeed)
Dec 01, 2008; Parisi, Bill ... In the November issue of Scholastic Coach & Athletic Director, I covered the topic of proper linear acceleration technique. This article will elaborate on acceleration and delve deeper into how to enhance this skill from a strength training perspective. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Defensive rehearsal.(SOCCER)
Dec 01, 2008; Martin, Jay ... Fabio Capello, the current manager of the English National team, has a long history of winning, capturing seven championships in Italy and Spain. He has coached at Roma, Madrid, Milan, and Juventus. And he once led AC Milan to a run of 58 games without a loss. [ILLUSTRATION ...
Supplementing the NBA's newest cuts into high school and college entries/plays.(BASKETBALL)(National Basketball Association)
Dec 01, 2008; Kimble, John ... It seems like the NBA has created a new and different type of cut that is becoming very popular and used by almost every team in the league. Some Division 1 coaches have already implemented it into their offensive arsenal. This cut, called by at least one college team as the ...
Defending quarterback scrambles.(FOOTBALL)
Dec 01, 2008; Ratledge, Kenny ... A commonly overlooked yet potentially devastating aspect of defensing an opponent's passing game is defensive reaction to a quarterback scramble. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The late Bill Walsh wrote that one in five drop-back passes ends up with the quarterback ...
When do three F's equal success? better fielding in three easy steps.(BASEBALL)
Dec 01, 2008; Grove, Jay ... Why does your team make errors? If there was a simple answer we'd all breathe a little easier in the dugout, right? Poor fielding not only slows down games and ruins pitchers rhythms, it also discourages a lot of children from playing baseball. During my eight years of coaching, ...
The in-season athlete: who is the strongest when it means nothing, and who is the weakest when it means everything?(STRENGTH & CONDITIONING)
Dec 01, 2008; Glyptis, Melissa ... Many in-season athletes find themselves at their weakest strength point when tournament play comes along at the end of the season. So how do we as coaches, work together to prevent this negative transformation? First, let's look at the common con-cerns and comments expressed to ...
Clarifying athletic program objectives: the foundation for coach evaluation and job satisfaction.(COACHING)
Dec 01, 2008; Stewart, Craig ... Coach evaluation and retention are two fundamental issues that continually challenge athletic administrators. Whether the administrator is the singularly assigned athletic or activity director in a larger school, the multi-tasking principal/ activity director/teacher-coach in a rural ...
A light in the "Forest?" Wake Forest's Jay VIDOVICH has melded an entertaining and efficient style of soccer with an incomparable rapport with his players to forge a national championship "caliber program.(PERSON TO PERSON)(Interview)
Dec 01, 2008; Newell, Kevin ... COACH: You were born in Detroit and later moved to New Caanan, CT, where you garnered all-state high school soccer accolades. What was your childhood like? Was soccer the be-all, end-all for you? VIDOVICH: When 1 grew up in Detroit, I played all of the spoils; played on the ...
America's center convention complex St. Louis, Mo: January 14-18.(National Soccer Coaches Association of America)
Dec 01, 2008 ... On behalf of the NSCAA Board of Directors and the 28,000-plus members of the Association, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 62nd Annual NSCAA Convention. Once again, we gather to share a January weekend of soccer fellowship and education. The NSCAA has been a ...
No job for old men a mini memoir.(SOCCER)
Dec 01, 2008; Burns, Rick ... It is finished. I have crossed the Rubicon. My 26-year career as a head college soccer coach ended with a whimper. It was a good run: Six jobs; all three NCAA divisions; both genders; sacked twice (one overturned); hundreds of job applications, probably 30+ on-site interviews; a dozen ...
The need for adult education in sport.(COACHING)
Dec 01, 2008; Brubaker, Ken ... There are too many adults who do not understand the time and effort that coaches put into a sports season. Adults, especially parents of junior and senior student-athletes at the high school level, need to understand that the coaches have families, too. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Winning the close matches.(WRESTLING)
Dec 01, 2008; Manos, Keith ... We have all encountered the one or two point matches that make even the best of us tense. It is, however, up to the coach to prepare wrestlers for these kinds of matches. If he does an effective job, his wrestlers should triumph most of the time. Here are my general instructions ...
Lou Holtz, on his greatest thrill at South Carolina: "Someone wrote a great new football song for us which could only be sung after a winning game, but by the time we won a game everyone had forgotten the words".(COACHES' CORNER)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2008 ... "Dig Deeper!" Former NFL head coach JERRY GLANVILLE, after learning that Joe Paterno had just donated $350,000 to Penn State for a new library: "Is that for playbooks or books with hard covers?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LAVELL EDWARDS, legendary Brigham ...
