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September 17, 2012

Deer Creek Renovation: A.D. Advice For Renovating

Bob Diefenderfer, athletic director at Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.), stresses communication, planning and patience when it comes to renovating your facilities....


September 14, 2012

Deer Creek Renovation: The “DC” Logo As Continuity Between Sports

Grant Gower, head football coach at Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.), discusses the importance of keeping the "DC" logo consistent throughout the facilities. The continuity is a symbol of unification for all student-athletes, no matter what spo...


September 14, 2012

Deer Creek Renovation: Eight Seniors Get First Look At Facilities (Raw Footage)

Eight Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.) seniors from the football team get the first look at some of the new facilities and upgrades in this raw footage shot by Coach And Athletic Director’s Editor-In-Chief Michael Austin....


September 14, 2012

Deer Creek Renovation: Program Growth At Deer Creek

Grant Gower, head football coach at Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.), talks about the growth Deer Creek has experienced and how positive it has been for their program....


September 14, 2012

Deer Creek Renovation: Inside Look At Training/Conditioning (Raw Footage)

This raw footage was taken by Coach And Athletic Director’s Editor-In-Chief, Michael Austin, during his recent visit to Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.). The school recently underwent a renovation of their athletic facilities. Here, student-a...


September 14, 2012

Deer Creek Renovation: Storage A Critical Part Of Facility Upgrades

Grant Gower, head football coach at Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.), tells us why more storage was such a critical factor in the recent renovation of the athletic facilities....


September 5, 2012

Powerline: Exploring neck-up response training

First step explosion, instinctive change of direction (COD) and swift response to visual and pressure cues are vital athletic attributes sought after by coaches of all sports. The approaches, equipment and protocols implemented for training these com...


August 22, 2012

Three tips for keeping facilities clean, athletes healthy

You know the drill at private health and fitness clubs. First, you use the machine. Then, you clean the machine. Keeping equipment clean and germ-free is important in these facilities because of high traffic. Likewise, dozens of athletes walk thro...


August 22, 2012

Sherry Moseler: Create Meetings To Discuss Conditioning

  Sherry Moseler,Girls Volleyball   Conditioning programs are important for successful sports teams. While Arrowhead is a fairly large school, there are still athletes who play in multiple sports. To make sure student...


August 22, 2012

Jason Abels: Budgeting For Training Equipment

Jason Abels, Head Trainer   Each spring, Arrowhead trainer Jason Abels provides a yearly athletic training budget to activities director Kevin Flegner. “He’s been great to work with when I explain what we’d like to have ...