...School athletic director. In preparation, I have obtained an internship with Brian Thomas at Northern Guildford High School. During my internship I am going to shadow Brian to see exactly what being an athletic director entails. Also, I am going to ask him questions about his journey in becoming an athletic director. My goal during my internship is to first, see what Brian does day by day, as I believe there is not a typical day for an athletic director. From what I understand, athletic directors do something different every day, whether it's budgeting, fundraising, planning home games and away games or prepping fields. Next, I plan to see where Brian started his career. I understand it's difficult to become an athletic director right out of college. It will be beneficial to see where he started and what kind of experience he obtained. Through my research, I have found, some athletic directors need a master’s degree. In addition, I am anxious to see how he budgets the allowances for things like team uniforms without favoring one team over another. Lastly, I hope to get enough insight and experience of what being an athletic director fully entails, to my decision of pursuing a career in this field. I am very excited to start my internship and I am ready to adapt to the change of working and no just going to school. I am going to take in, and learn as much as I can when working with Brian. I am eager to finish school and start my career, whether as an athletic director or not...
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...Athletic directors typically appreciate working with coaches and athletes to improve teams by helping them reach their full potential by being responsible, working well with people, speaking well in front of a large crowd, and most importantly being a strong leader. Oftentimes athletic directors get overlooked, and won’t get the recognition they deserve, because all the glory and praise usually goes to the outstanding coaches who get the job done for their teams. Many people will totally forget about the tactical side of being in an athletic office. Seeing the vision long term, being persistent, and diligent is most definitely key to being a responsible leader of athletics at that particular school. Athletic directors should usually like being in a leadership position, and they sometimes can even be moved into positions with a conference office, which will probably pay more in the long run....
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...Overview An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many american colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs (ehow.com). They are in charge of an athletic department at a high school, college or university and at some colleges, the athletic director may hold academic rank. They are usually considered to be full-time administrators instead of, full time faculty members. Although technically in charge of all of the coaches, they are often far beyond well-compensated and also less famous, with few having their own television and radio programs as many coaches now do. In this paper I plan to describe the duties of an athletic coach, career paths, educational requirements and benefits of becoming an athletic Director. Athletic Director Job Description The Athletic director oversees funding and budgets for school athletic programs and are responsible for ensuring that the various teams at a school receive a fair distribution of resources. They may have to make tough decisions about how to allocate money. They work with coaches to ensure school and division regulations are being followed but don't usually handle the direct coaching and training of athletes. However, they usually oversee the hiring and firing of trainers and coaches. In addition to managing the...
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...sports business would never feel the effects of the recession but they were wrong. Both the NBA and the NFL cut jobs during the recession and this caused a ripple effect with new graduates. They were forced to take low paying jobs working in the industry but as ticket sellers or working in the concessions. Still others who felt there was no other option took unpaid internships in the hope of landing a job afterward (Belson, 2009). Sports management degrees date back to the 1970’s with a rocky start. The degree was not seen as legitimate, “many academics mocked them for teaching how to mix Gatorade” (Wecker, 2011). The program has come a long way and has advanced into a masters level and even a PHD. Even with a masters in sports management becoming a popular presence many prospective students as well as those in academia have misconstrued what exactly this degree entails. Prospective students thought that this degree was nothing more than students watching sports figures practice and play their sport. This was frustrating to the professors who were trying to teach the...
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...presents a wonder of how muscle movement and physiology works. I have acquired a deep interest in becoming an athletic trainer because trainers explore these topics daily within their career. Athletic trainers are usually the first people to respond on scene to an athletic injury. An athletic trainer's schedule is mostly full time, but some trainers may need to be "on call" in case of an emergency. This career involves a variety of working environments, ranging from physician offices to sports fields. To work as an athletic trainer, it is required to be certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association after graduating college with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology or another area of study involving physical education....
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...The Sundale Company Case Analysis Problems Macro The Sundale Club is the largest athletic/social club in the city (Brown, 2011) and while in previous years had to deal with a waiting list is now encountering dwindling membership numbers. Complaints about the Men’s Activities Director (Chuck Johnson) were surfaced to the Athletic Director (Ted Ellis) and were dismissed. This dismissal and subsequent behavior began to have an impact on the club’s other departments (social and mixed activities). The dismissal did lead to Ellis speaking with the club’s Director (Bob Watts) however Watts was more focused on retirement and quite simply did not want to rock the boat and deal with a key human resources issue. Having exhausted all avenues available, Ellis resigned and moved to the competition. Micro The dismissal by Ellis of the complaints from members of the club led to the staff becoming discouraged and discontent with their jobs. If the Athletic Director would be willing to go to bat for a friend and not deal with the growing number of complaints from the members of the club, how would other issues be addressed and have them be heard? Other members of the staff as a result would limit their interaction with Johnson due to the preferential treatment being shown to him. Sundale Club 3 With the resignation of Havens, Ellis promoted Johnson to the position of Asst. Athletic Director despite his being in the position for only five months and other managers having more...
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...coaches (18.6 percent through the 2011-12 season) is at its lowest mark since the 1995-96 season, people weren't sure what, if anything, they should say. Multiple administrators passed on the opportunity. The NCAA wanted to see my questions, and then it wanted a pre-interview phone conversation before it ultimately emailed its responses. The coaches who talked on the record always ended our chats with the same concern: "I didn't say anything that will make me look bad, right?" Shaka Smart Andy Lyons/Getty Images To reach Shaka Smart's level, black coaches often have to overcome certain labels. I don't blame them. It's an incendiary issue, because we're uncomfortable with race as dialogue. It's still a subject that makes athletic directors -- 89 percent of whom are white at the Division I level, per the report -- squirm. Minority coaches speak cautiously, because they don't want to be labeled as rebels or militants. That hesitancy is a significant component in a perennial problem that's often managed but rarely attacked. An inherent defensiveness makes the subject difficult to publicly dissect. So year after year, the issue remains. The numbers aren't too surprising, but they're worth addressing, especially when the coaching pool belies the fact that 57.2 percent of Division I men's basketball players are...
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...Athletic Trainer Who helps the world's greatest athletes recover from their injuries? Who is responsible for Alex Morgan's triumphant return? The answer to both of those questions is an athletic trainer. Athletic trainers (ATs) are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians; to administer preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions. Without athletic trainers several of the world's greatest players would not have been able to continue their careers after injuries. The history of athletic training goes all the way back to the early 1900's. Athletic training started when American Medical Association deemed it an" allied health profession"....
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...should respect each other regardless, however responsibility should come at any age. However my biggest belief is that everyone deserves a chance. In my future profession, I plan on either becoming a store manage/director for a Hy-Vee store, or to become an athletic director for some sort of institution. Whether it is a college or some school, as long as I stay in the midwest I’ll be content. For the most part, to acquire jobs like these ill have to be kind hearted, and organized with the job. On top of those, ill have to learn to work with people, employees or customers, be able to give up hours outside my job, and know that I can’t quit on a certain task until the job is completed. There are plenty of reasons why I chose this. I have worked at Hy-vee since I was fourteen years old. Since then, I have been given plenty of chances to learn new things, and have acquired a number of skills to make me a better person. The reason why I have chosen this as my future occupation is probably because some of the people you get to meet on a daily basis. I am a very social person, and I like being nice whenever I can. Every moment that I am at Hy-Vee, I meet new people and I feel like I leave some sort of an impact on their lives just so that they will come back. Becoming an Athletic Director was different. Very recently I decided I wanted to have that as a backup profession when I picked up my human resources and sports management concentration. Once knowing my job, it’s very easy...
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...When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football by Bruce Watson is a narrative about how the former president of the United Stated worked to make Football a safer sport to play. Roosevelt's pursuit on the safety of football began in the fall of 1905, when he realized that the brutal ways of play were endangering the existence of football. Having played the sport himself, Theodore was aware of the flimsy padding, the risk of brain and spinal injuries, and full speed collisions between players. His own son was a victim to the injuries football provided. So first, Roosevelt held a meeting at the white house that involved the coaches and athletic directors from ivy league schools like Harvard and Yale. He made his case to his audience about how he disapproved...
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...The names of the three articles that are being used are “Minorities Coaches Do Not Face Discrimination in Hiring,” “Decision Making in Hiring: Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches and Staff,” and “Tackling Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule.” The authors of the article that I am refuting, “Minorities Coaches Do Not Face Discrimination in Hiring,” are Roger Clegg and Greg Franke. This article was published in Opposing Viewpoints: Sports and Athletes in 2005. Also, there are two peer-reviewed articles that I am using to support my argument. The authors of one the editorials, “Decision Making in Hiring: Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches and Staff,” are Keith Harris, Richard E. Lapchick, and Neza K. Janson. This editorial was published in New Direction for Institutional Research in the winter of 2009. The author of the last piece of writing, “Tackling Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule,” is Brian Collins. This piece of writing was published in New York University Law Review in June 2007. “Minorities Coaches Do Not Face Discrimination in Hiring” simply explains what its title says; that minorities coaches do not face discrimination in the hiring process for coaching job. Meanwhile, the two peer-review articles, “Decision Making in Hiring: Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches and Staff” and “Tackling Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule”, explains in greater details that the first article is not...
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...Association; a former football player from the National Football League, journalists from the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and the New York Times, and an athletic director discussing responsibility issues in college athletics. Organizational Issues and Social Pressures The issues in this video clip are in regard to student-athlete performance. The panel of speakers evaluates how student athletes focus more on the sport rather than education. The student athlete faces the ethical dilemma of academics versus athletics. In the video clip a speaker also indicates how the student-athlete does not interact with the student body and is so far removed from the academic experience (Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 2011). Although there are opportunities to go to college with an athletic scholarship, controversy follows. Another issue is that athletic scholarships pose as a barrier for college athletes to get an education, which is why there is a debate for revising distribution of athletic scholarships (Gerdy, 2006). Academic clustering is administrators grouping student-athletes into a major where they can perform academically at the same level so they can remain eligible for an athletic scholarship (Schneider, Ross, & Fisher, 2010). The student-athlete may receive an athletic scholarship depending on their athletic performance, but it is that student’s...
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...These programs are expected to compete for a championship each and every year and are expected to fill the seats that normally average between eighty thousand to one hundred thousand seats. In order to do this there is high competition to get the very best players all around the country and the NCAA has very strict guidelines on what colleges can do to persuade the players to come play there. This isn’t a new problem but with modern technology the problem has become very visible because NCAA officials and competing schools are able to trace the exact moves that teams are doing for the players. Also players are being offered money and benefits that seventeen and eighteen year old kids have never seen before in their life. Penalties are becoming harsher every year and coaches and schools are starting to really suffer but what there is a fine line to walk between cheating and just putting your best effort towards getting the player. Process of Investigating Illegal Recruiting The NCAA has broken the process of investigations down into four different parts. The first part is the actual investigation where the NCAA has received a tip from a credible source about a possible violation. These credible sources are generally either members of the university in question, an opposing university, media member, or individual students that are being recruited by the university. The difference with the NCAA...
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...THE EFFECTS OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN WOMEN SPORTS March, 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page i Table of Contents …..……………………………………………………………………2 Section I. Introduction 3 Section II. Review of Literature 4 Equal Employment Opportunity Laws 4 Affirmative Action 6 Effects of EEO and AA on Women Sports 7 Effects on EEO and AA on women playing sports 7 Effects of EEO and AA on women coaching sports 9 Effects of EEO and AA on women in administration………………...11 Section III. Summary and Conclusions 14 References ............... 17 INTRODUCTION Women in sports have indeed come a long way. Years ago it was socially unacceptable for women to do anything other than cook and clean. Men dominated the work place and the sports industry. But eventually women got fed up with being treated less significant than their male counterparts and began protesting. Not until the mid-1950s and early 1960s did nondiscriminatory employment become a strong social concern (Bohlander & Snell, 2004). While women were just beginning to make a name for themselves, the government began regulating Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) by passing a series of laws, in an attempt to correct social problems of interest to particular groups of workers, including women. EEO laws have made a major impact on women in all industries, but especially on women in sports. While EEO laws focused on non-discrimination, affirmative action went beyond...
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...requirements for the Master of Science in Health and Human Performance With concentration in Sport Administration April 2013 Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine if college athletes that are predisposed to heart defects develop a heart defect during their athletic career. The researcher will conduct a causal comparative study to prove that college athletes that are predisposed to heart defects develop one during their athletic career. The study will examine college athletes that are predisposed to heart defects and do not realize they are at risk for possible development of a heart defect during their athletic career. Knowing an athlete’s family and medical history could help prevent a great deal of possible health conditions. Athletes have a higher risk of developing a higher risk if they are predisposed. There are athletes that do not realize that they are predisposed to heart defects and that they could develop one. Table of Contents Introduction 5 Background 5 Theoretical Framework 6 Statement of the problem. 6 Research question. 6 Purpose for the study. 7 Significance 7 Limitations of the Study 7 Definitions of Terms 8 Arrhythmias 8 Athletic Career 8 Electrocardiogram 8 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: 8 Sudden Cardiac Death: 8 Review of Related Literature 9 What is causing the sudden death of young athletes? 9 Successful Prevention 10 Role of NCAA 11 Summary 12 Methodology 13 Design 13 Setting and...
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