In this paper I will be interviewing the athletic director of West Chester B. Reed Henderson High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I chose to interview the athletic director because he is my father, Ken McCormick, and one of the main reasons that I would like to go into administration. To maintain a professional tone to the interview I will referring to my father as Mr. McCormick throughout. Mr. McCormick provided me with a copy of his job description. When asked what his main responsibilities are he spoke specifically on scheduling all interscholastic athletic contests for each team at Henderson High School, hiring officials to work the games, hiring of coaches and creation of athletic department procedures and other school procedures …show more content…
Administrative certificate aside, it is incredible the amount of tasks and duties administrator’s must handle while also being under a high amount of scrutiny. Administrators are ambassadors for their schools, with their actions, words, and appearance being constantly examined. Especially if the administrator lives in the district that they work in as does Mr. McCormick. Another eye-opening fact of this experience was just how much of an administrators job is kept separate from the day-to-day running of a school. Mr. McCormick talks about how most of the things he does are outside of school hours in anticipation of school events. This is not just true for athletic directors, as other administrators spend a good portion of their day planning and prepping for things such as observations, meetings, and events. The largest negative seems to be instances dealing with discipline and it is no surprise that these events are the things that you cannot plan for in advance. An administrator does not know that students are going to have an argument on a certain day and that may require them to stop all of their other duties to deal with a situation promptly and appropriately. Administrators are not only great preparers but also great
Athletic Director Bob Marcus has quite the challenge in allocating the athletic department funds appropriately throughout all the programs within Oakbend Senior High School. After critically analyzing the case study it was quite clear some sports such as football and girls basketball received much more funding compared to other sports such as cross country and track and field. Throughout this case brief an effective solution that is both fair and in line with the districts mission will be expanded on to assist Bob Marcus is making the necessary budget cuts to provide a successful athletic program in the future. Marcus needs to cut about $80,000 from the previous budget plan to accommodate the funding cuts made by the school.
Case Study 6 2. By appointing the ad hoc committee, has the superintendent undermined the authority of the assistant superintendent for business? When Dr. Davis wrote a formal recommendation to the former superintendent requesting centralized control of the principal’s activity funds, it was dismissed because there were many unanswered questions. Being a former principal in the district, Dr. Davis was fully aware of the mismanagement of these funds and continued to pursue the issue with the school board, despite the decision of the superintendent.
The guest speakers were very informative about their positions and the field of sports management. Both, Drew Watson and Anna Welsh, are in very high positions of authority within the Athletics department at Southeastern. This presentation emphasized the idea of passion; figuring out where your passion is and pursue it. Do not basing what you do on how much you make. In both positions, it is important to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses in both a professional and relational sense.
Arthur Epstein is the girls’ basketball coach. He has repeatedly exhibited problematic behavior. For example, Epstein will touch all of us during practices. Instead of telling us where to go during drills, he will grab us roughly by our arms and move us around, never asking if we are comfortable with this acute form of contact manipulation. To be fair, he does the same thing to the boys’ team; however, that does not make it any more appropriate.
The Northeast Conference sponsored a speaker to present to the student-athletes here at Robert Morris University. The speaker was Dr. Derek Greenfield, who is a motivational speaker specializing in inclusive excellence and positive change. Dr. Greenfield travels around the country speaking to people about improving relations among groups of diverse individuals. At Robert Morris, his goal was to bring the athletic department together as a whole by helping everyone to become more accepting of others, therefore bringing the athletes together much like a family. This is important because studies show that athletes who feel accepted and important among their peers perform better in his or her particular sport.
“How in the world did Colin Cushman end up as an athletic director?” you might ask. My stepdad Colin went through rigorous classes at Montana State from 1984 to 1988. He has successfully gotten a degree in math, and a minor in chemistry. Young Colin who once had gracious, full hair, studies chemical engineering for two years. During this time, Colin began coaching high schooler’s, which immediately caught his interest.
I played sports from the age of seven through my senior year of high school. I gave up participating in sports after several knee injuries. At Shepherd, I am a Quality Control Coach for the football team. You may wonder “What is a Quality Control Coach?”, or “What does a Quality Control Coach do?”. In my case, I work with the offensive line (my supervisor is the offensive line coach), occasionally help in the equipment room , or film practices when other interns can’t make it to
Justin Case stood outside the Athletic Director’s office, bouncing on the balls of his feet with glee. He checked the corridors for teachers, and on finding none he quickly slipped into the gym and unfolded the letter the Athletic Director gave him, “Mr. Justin Case of class 2016 has been selected as the school representative to the Annual McDonald’s All-American game which will take place in Los Angeles on the second Saturday of August. He is requested to collect the required material from the faculty in-charge Mr. Bobby Valentino.” Coach Valentino wasn’t high up on his “favorites” list, but if a small conversation with him will be succeeded by his taking part in the biggest high school game of the year, then who’s complaining? He quickly folded the letter and put it into his pocket before checking what time
Do College Athlete’s Deserve Monetary Compensation? The importance of college athletics has vastly increased over the last century to the extraordinary level that exists today. More than 420,000 college students participate in twenty-three different collegiate sports annually, a number that is continually increasing (NCAA.org). The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is “a membership-driven organization dedicated to the safeguarding of the well-being of student-athletes and equipping them with the skills to succeed on the playing field, in the classroom and throughout life” that institutes the rules regarding collegiate athletics in the United States (NCAA.org).
“If he coached a team to the State Championships, he has to have a lot of game experience and tricks to share,” she predicted. Mom suggested that
A Rhetorical Analysis of “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” Writer, Brad Wolverton, in his article “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” first appearing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, conveys the journey of a former University of Memphis football player who was poorly educated and how he struggled to be academically eligible. Wolverton’s purpose is to illustrate the widespread of educational shortcomings of NCAA athletes and the complicated ways athletes struggles gets brushed under the proverbial carpet. (Wolverton) In this article Wolverton utilizes a straightforward tone by using pathos to appeal to the readers with Mr. Cathey’s difficult situation also utilizing logos and ethos etc. to help make a presentable argument to which I will be analyzing.
What do you really respect about your mom as a coach and as your mother? A. Savannah Vach: “She always picks one player that’s going to be her project player and by the end of the year they’re normally better than most of the other players and I think that’s really good that she respects potential and other athletes and then at home I like how she doesn’t always talk about volleyball, there’s other things besides volleyball.” Q. “How do you think that all three of your relationships would be different if one or none of you played volleyball? A. Savannah Vach: “I don’t think we would be as close because having such a great thing in common with each other brings us closer together.”
Gregory effectively relates to the parents and writes about common fears they have. “The dream of free college” drives parents to invest more and more into their children’s sports. As kids grow older, they soon feel the pressure to impress college scouts. Of course, Gregory relays the truth about the probability of receiving a scholarship for the top-level college sports. As a former NCAA Division I basketball player, Gregory has personal experience in the recruiting process, and his rare opportunity gives life to the “2% of high school athletes” that play at high levels like this.
Behind a team, someone always holds it together, the coach. Being a coach is not an easy job, as Mr. Galanter proves in The Chosen by Chaim Potok. However, no matter how hard things get for the team, Mr. Galanter is always there, cheering his team on in the sport that they love. So what goes into making a coach? How is Mr. Galanter always there when needed and how does he help the team in exactly the right way they need?
Football has taken U.S. Universities in hostage Steven Salzberg is a Bloomberg distinguished professor of Biomedical Engineering, computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Salzberg has also been a vocal advocate in favor of the teaching of evolution in schools and has authored editorials and appeared in print media on this topic. He writes a widely read column at Forbes magazine on Science, medicine, and pseudoscience. “Get Football out of Our Universities” is an article by him about the “evolution of teaching” in United States universities.