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Fight over pay for Louisiana officials jeopardizes fall sports
Louisiana high school sports officials are demanding more pay for their work, a fight that could jeopardize the fall sports season if a compromise is not reached. [caption id="attachment_9642" align="alignright" width="288"] Louisiana high school ...

Drills, exercises to help athletes across multiple sports
For many sports, it’s now time to plan your offseason development program. Your goal is to design a program that directs you toward your fall goals. When designing your offseason performance program, for example, basketball players want to inclu...

Conditioning for volleyball players
In volleyball, maintaining quickness and power during a rally or set and throughout an entire match is vital to maximize performance. The average rally in Division I NCAA women’s volleyball lasts 13 seconds, but rallies commonly last 30 seconds and...

Compiling the perfect highlight résumé for athletes
A student athlete’s highlight film is akin to a professional résumé and requires a similar amount of preparation and revision before submission. Comparing the relative few numbers of college scholarships available to the hundreds of thousands of ...

NCAA to experiment with replay in volleyball
The NCAA announced today that its Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved replay in volleyball matches during the 2015 season. The replay system is experimental and will only be permitted in the Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 during conference matches,...

Montana Officials Worried About Participation Decline in Girls Sports
From DesertNews.comNine years ago at Memorial Stadium in Great Falls, Montana, the girls’ track team from Anaconda High School clinched a state championship as four athletes combined to win both the 400 and 1600 relays.Simply assembling a fours...

High School Sports Participation Increases for 24th Straight Year
NFHS.orghttp://www.nfhs.org/content.aspx?id=9628Participation in high school sports increased for the 24th consecutive year in 2012-13 and passed the 7.7 million mark for the first time, according to the annual High School Athletics Participation Sur...

North Syracuse HS Budget Cuts 25 Coaches, 8 Teams
Syracuse.comhttp://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/north_syracuses_amended_budget.htmlThe North Syracuse (N.Y.) Central School District’s amended budget for the 2013-14 school year cuts 25 coaches and eliminates eight teams.The cuts wil...

High School Athlete Battling Effects Of Multiple Concussions
Sports Illustratedhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/highschool/news/20130606/troubling-concussion-trend-in-female-athletes/Sammy Barish doesn’t remember hearing a sound when she hit the floor, but the smack of her skull meeting the linoleum reve...

Fired Gay VCU Volleyball Coach Trying To Move Forward
USA Today, Jeffrey Martinhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/volleyball/2012/12/19/james-finley-fired-vcu-volleyball-investigation/1780795/James Finley says he has options. He won’t reveal names out of fairness to each administration&r...