Of all the resources needed for school sports, the one that we are not short of, fortunately, is positive examples.
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These are examples of the ugly side of competition. While it’s not like the dark side of the moon that we on Earth never see, it’s a side seen more often than we’d like in sports.
People who work in or with schools are fortunate to have more than one new year. They get a new calendar year and a new school year during each 12 month cycle. Two chances to start over!
We often hear complaints among school sports leaders that we lack the means to compete in the marketplace against the “big boys,” be they major college and professional sports or huge media conglomerates.
When Christmas came, the box was discovered and there was great joy as the girls tore through their treasures.
"One axiom of leadership I have come to appreciate reads, ‘leaders do not inflict pain, they bear it.’ In the same manner, leaders do not absorb praise, they re-direct it."
One of the ways the MHSAA has minimized the us and them divide is to provide for a governing board (the Representative Council) that allows most of schools’ diverse voices to be heard . . .
The potentially back-breaking issue unique to bowling is an awards program that tends to cause students to violate the amateur and awards rules of MHSAA member schools.
From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.