|
Rural Schools, Medical Facilities Partner for Athletic Training Services
By
Michael Popke,
April 2013
Athletic trainer Jodie Smith has logged more than 2,500 miles in a single month, traveling between eight schools in and around Billings, Mont. Seven of those schools are K-12 facilities, with the number of high school students at each one ranging from 21 to almost 300. ...
|
|
Scholars React to Cancellation of NCAA Colloquium
By
Paul Steinbach,
April 2013
The writing was on the wall beginning last summer, when for the first time in the six-year history of the NCAA-sponsored Scholarly Colloquium on Intercollegiate Athletics, the NCAA News failed to promote a call for papers. ...
|
|
More Recreation Programs Using Tablet Devices
By
Emily Attwood,
February 2013
Last fall, Bobby Brown, a graduate assistant with the University of South Florida's recreation facilities department, started reaching out to other collegiate recreation professionals to ask about their experiences implementing iPads ...
|
|
Concussions: Bridging Gap Between Athletic, Academic Departments
By
Michael Popke,
January 2013
David Hayward began thinking differently about his job the day the parents of a student-athlete at Highland High School in Gilbert, Ariz., expressed frustration to him about their son's lack of academic progress while recovering from a concussion.
|
|
Colleges Seek Third-Party Help in AD Searches
By
Paul Steinbach,
December 2012
It has been dubbed the "Wonder Blunder." A botched concert promotion, in which the budget-weary University of Hawaii paid a $200,000 deposit for an on-campus Stevie Wonder concert that never happened
|
|
Abuse Victim Katherine Starr Launches Safe4Athletes
By
Paul Steinbach,
May 2012
She still holds Wisconsin swimming records for 13- and 14-year-old girls 30 years after setting them, but Katherine Starr has surrendered much in her life — innocence, Olympic dreams, even the name she was born with.
|
|
New Projects: Baylor; St. Joseph's College; Washington State University
By
Emily Attwood,
January 2012
St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, N.Y., began work on a new athletic facility last month.
|
|
'Life of an Athlete' Helps Kids Make Smart Choices
By
Michael Popke,
November 2011
On the final Saturday night in September, a group of student-athletes from Sun Prairie (Wis.) High School hosted the first all-school "dry party" — three hours of open gym and swim, inflatable jousting, plenty of pizza and college football on TV in the commons, with members of the football, soccer, volleyball and dance booster clubs donating their time and resources.
|
|
ABC Attendees Mean Business
By
Andrew Cohen,
November 2011
Industry veterans who have been around long enough to remember the first incarnation of the Athletic Business Conference & Expo — at this point, “old-timers” may be the only appellation that fits — recall it more for its congenial atmosphere than any equipment or educational materials they might have seen displayed on the 62 tables arranged around the downtown Chicago Marriott Hotel “salon” ballroom.
|
|
California Lags in Regulating Athletic Trainers
By
Michael Popke,
September 2011
In May 2009, Tommy Mallon was playing in his final high school lacrosse game for Santa Fe Christian in Solana Beach, Calif., when he collided with an opposing player as both were scrambling for a bouncing ball.
|
