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By Pat McHugh This week of the school year reminds me of the legacy of the North Shore Country Day School athletic department and the values of the school’s longest serving athletic director, Mac McCarty. I share an annual task this week which he took pride in and reflects his background: we will line the…

This article was originally published by Coach & AD Magazine. Jim Davis, Ed.M., MA, RSCC*D Strength training has enormous potential in the development of team culture. The weightroom is a fantastic place to improve physical performance, mindset, and inter-team communication. In the pursuit of improved performance, every moment can be a teaching moment. Coaches should…

by Chris Dertz Competition Review: In Part I, I outlined a general plan for promoting, recruiting, and organizing a high school powerlifting team. In Part II, we will talk about competing in a meet. Finding a Meet Not all of the kids on our team here at Eastland High School compete. Some of them are…

In 2009, Northwestern University battled Auburn in the Outback Bowl. They lost 35-38 in overtime. It was Pat Fitzgerald’s second Bowl Game as NU’s head coach, and his second consecutive overtime loss (they played Missouri in the Alamo Bowl the year prior, and lost an 23-30 in OT). In today’s Citrus Bowl, Northwestern University dominated…

By Alex Nadolna We were down at the NSCA Coaches Conference down in San Antonio, Texas. Jim was giving presentations and I was gathering content, catching up with friends, and pulling together anything that could help me improve my program back home (at Saint Viator H.S.). One day while we were walking around the convention…

by Nate Baldwin Just over 4 weeks ago, the NBA abruptly suspended its season after Utah Jazz Center Rudy Gobert unexpectedly tested positive for the novel coronavirus.  With that one dramatic action, COVID-19 seemed to take over our collective North American consciousness.  All pillars of American life followed suit in the days that followed…all major…

Every coach would like to have greater depth of talent on their roster. “No one has depth,” insists Brad Dixon, head football coach at Central High School (IL). “You get to work with who comes out, that’s it,” he says, adding that if you spend too much time complaining about lack of depth, you might…

There is a direct relationship between nutrition, cognition, and emotion that we would all benefit from understanding. Our physical state impacts our psychological state – that truth is unavoidable. Once that relationship is realized and an individual hopes to improve their nutrition habits, the next question is often, how? As coaches, we are tasked with…