Congratulations to GADA Executive Director Dr. Lucia Norwood for her induction into the NIAAA Hall of Fame at the National AD Convention that was held recently in Dallas, TX. The NIAAA Hall of Fame was created to honor retired athletic administrators who had exemplary careers in athletic administration. Lucia was one of 12 Athletic Directors nationally to be inducted into the 2009 inaugural class.

Lucia served as the first female president of the GADA in 1994 and  has been the GADA Executive Director for the past 14 years. Lucia has been a highly involved member of the NIAAA for almost 25 years and received several national awards for her many contributions.

Congratulations to Marist Athletic Director Tommy Marshall who was recognized by the NFHS as a Citation Award recipient at  the National AD Conference that was held in Dallas last December. Each Year the National Federation of State High School Associations presents Citation Awards to outstanding athletic administrators in recognition of contributions to interscholastic athletics at the local, state and national levels.

Pictured with his wife Dana

There are 8 Citation Awards given annually to athletic directors across the nation. Tommy currently serves on the GADA Board as a Past president and serves on the NIAAA Board as well. The real reason he won the award is that he has been blessed because he was a teammate of Jeff Beggs at Furman University!

This article was adapted from the booklet Captains - 7 Ways to Lead Your Team - the booklet was written for team leaders and is one of the four topics covered at the Captains and Coaches Workshops.  

The seven concepts of leadership in the booklet are a job description for captains.  Don't leave leadership to chance - give your leaders the responsibility and a blueprint for success.

Leadership Concept # 5: Be the first to PROTECT AND DEFEND your team and be the last to critical.

Loyalty
If you cannot understand and demonstrate loyalty, step out of leadership.  Before you accept a leadership position, you need to understand that being a leader often makes you a target for unfair criticism.  Being strong and decisive will attract some people but it may also alienate some people.  There are times when leaders need to be able stand on their own, but honestly, it is always nice to have allies.  Allies are those people who are loyal to you.  Leaders who are loyal, usually gain loyalty in return.  Learn to demonstrate loyalty before you should expect it in return.  Loyalty occasionally requires that teammates speak up to defend each other.  It requires that they hold together to take on the pressures that come with being a team.  Loyalty builds trust.   Loyalty is belief in each other, and that allows teammates to lift each other up, to magnify individual strengths and diminish individual weaknesses. Click Here to read more...

There's a lot to be said for the life of an attorney.

Keith Amemiya watches his last state football championship game as Hawaii High School Athletic Association executive director from a tunnel at Aloha Stadium. Amemiya will be stepping down at the end of the academic year.

Pick one, any one, who is a Punahou graduate, and picture the stylish downtown office and a challenging, yet lush life in first class. It was all in the grasp of a one-time track kid from Punahou.

When Keith Amemiya left the world of law in 1998, it wasn't for a pay raise, that's for sure. Then 32, he became the first executive director of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association who did not have extensive coaching and athletic administration experience. In fact, he was an outsider who didn't fit the normal circle of decision-makers in the hierarchy of high school athletics. Read more...

 

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