The more essential qualities of a team leader are not physical – not being the biggest, fastest or best athlete.
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The teachers and coaches who make these requests of their students and athletes, as well as of themselves, are the teachers and coaches invited to the class reunions.
Take a look at another good reason schools need to preserve broad and deep athletic programs for their students: physical exercise may improve brain functions.
Occasionally the same media who complain that things have gone over the top will complain that we down here in the trenches are too conservative in our philosophies or too restrictive in our policies.
During a recent meeting of the MHSAA Student Advisory Council, I asked the group to help me answer again one of the most basic questions we must keep asking ourselves about school-based sports:
Any student who feasts on most of that menu will be ready for life – ready for life’s ups and downs and all the changes the future will surely bring.
Michigan – and specifically West Michigan – will host two important national meetings related to our business during the next two years.
As I prepared to lead a group of people of a national school sports organization through a weekend strategic planning session out of state recently, I was challenged to check again my own answers to questions like these:
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