GADA Regions Director's Cup Winners Announced!

Georgia Athletic Directors Association Newsletter

www.GADAonline.net

Vol. 1 No. 14

May 2010

Greetings!

Welcome to our E-newsletter. My name is Jeff Beggs and I am the new President of the Georgia Athletic Directors Association for 2010-2011.

I hope you will take a minute to read through this newsletter and visit our website, www.gadaonline.net . There is a tremendous amount of information that will be useful to you as you do your job as a professional athletic administrator. In our profession, you wear many hats. Our responsibility to you is to help you and your school be successful as you perform your all of your daily duties.

Best of luck to you. If our Board of Directors or I can help you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact any of us.

Sincerely,

Jeff Beggs, CMAA
Associate Director of Athletics
St. Francis High School

2010 Regions Bank Director's Cup Winners

Class AAAAA

Overall: Collins Hill
Boys: Brookwood
Girls: Walton

Region 1: Houston County
Region 2: Greenbrier
Region 3: Camden County
Region 4: Chapel Hill
Region 5: Harrison
Region 6: Walton
Region 7: Collins Hill
Region 8: Grayson

Class AAAA

Overall: Marist
Boys: Marist
Girls: Marist

Region 1:   Lee County
Region 2:   Glynn Academy
Region 3:   Lakeside Evans
Region 4:   OLA
Region 5:   Starr's Mill
Region 6:   Marist
Region 7:   Hillgrove
Region 8:   Loganville

Class AAA

Overall:   St. Pius
Boys: Woodward Academy
Girls: St. Pius

Region 1:   Westover
Region 2:   Columbus
Region 3:   West Laurens
Region 4:   Woodward
Region 5:   St. Pius
Region 6:   Carrollton
Region 7:   Lambert
Region 8:   Oconee County

Class AA

Overall: Westminster
Boys: Westminster
Girls: Greater Atlanta Christian

Region 1:   Thomasville
Region 2:   Pierce County
Region 3:   Vidalia
Region 4:   Henry County
Region 5:   Pike County
Region 6:   Westminster
Region 7:   Calhoun
Region 8:   North Oconee

Class A

Overall: Wesleyan
Boys: Wesleyan
Girls: Wesleyan

Region 1:   Irwin County
Region 2:   Brookstone
Region 3:   Savannah Christian
Region 4:   Aquinas
Region 5:   Holy Innocents'
Region 6:   Bremen
Region 7:   Wesleyan
Region 8:   Athens Academy

NOTE: Points reflect all completed sports. (baseball championships in progress). Final points results, when posted will reflect each school's points totals for their top eight sports.

A big thank you goes out to GADA board member and past president, Tim Vick, who painstakingly calculates the points standings and winners.

McClurg retiring from Dalton High

Larry Fleming - Dalton Citizen

Ronnie McClurg, who has spent 40 years a coach and administrator at Dalton High School, said Friday he is retiring as the Catamounts' athletic director.

McClurg, who turned 70 in April, came to Dalton in 1964 as an assistant on coach Bill Chappell's first staff. He spent 30-plus years coaching and gained a statewide reputation as a defensive guru before spending six years in private business. He returned to Dalton High as football coach and athletic director for the 2001-2002 school year and posted a 63-17 record before retiring in March 2008 as football coach. Since then he has been the school's AD. Read more...

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Athletic Coaches Have a Profound Impact
on the Lives of Young Athletes

NationalCoachSurvey.org

Survey of thousands of US travel coaches reports that nearly all are asked for non-sports related advice by their players

April 20, 2010 Goldens Bridge, NY-Athletic coaches have a tremendous impact on the lives of their young athletes, according to a poll taken by the National Coach Survey (NCS). In a survey taken by more than 1,000 travel sports coaches in the first two weeks of April, coaches responded that more than 80% have been asked by parents to speak to their children about non-sport issues. Nearly 90% say that their players seek advice about non-sports issues, such as problems with friends, schoolwork or family issues.

In a typical in season week, a third of the coaches polled said that they spend more than 16 hours with their athletes. Nearly all of the coaches said reported they council their players on nutrition or off-season training, apart from games and practices. When asked what the most important lesson they wanted to teach their athletes, 40% replied "hard work," 30% replied integrity, 20% teamwork and 10% said sportsmanship. Winning was not mentioned

"You can see from these numbers just how important coaches can be to the development and choices that young athletes make, especially at the travel sports level," said John Kelly, Publisher of NationalCoachSurvey.org. "Our research shows that coaches often rank equal to, and in some cases higher than, parents in terms of influencing the decisions young people make on and off the field. I don't think the general public has any idea about the level of their influence."

The National Coach Survey focuses on exploring the issues facing our nation's athletic coaches and the impact they have on our society. Twice a month, NCS distributes a new survey on topics that relate directly to how coaches impact and improve the lives of the young athletes they work with so closely. Full results of this survey can be found at www.NationalCoachSurvey.org

The National Coach Survey is managed by My Sports Dreams, a leading provider of product-less solutions to financial challenges faced by teams at the collegiate, interscholastic and travel levels nationwide. For more information, visit www.mysportsdreams.com.

Your June AD Checklist

Here is this month's AD checklist. Please feel free to modify to suit your needs.

Meet with spring sports coaches for season evaluations, equipment inventory and storage.
Make preparations/arrangements for community coach classes as needed.
Schedule end of the year meeting with Principal to review budgeting and fiscal responsibilities.
Turn in budget requests to Principal.
Notify all coaches of their budget for the upcoming school year.
Check with vendors regarding outstanding purchase orders.
Send requests and verify fall sports officials, with schedules.
Attend weekly administrative meeting.
Schedule fall sports parents meetings.
Update school athletic code.
Confirm all fall schedules.
Schedule fall sports picture/media day(s).
Begin fall sports eligibility process.
Notify coaches/parents/student-athletes of needed remediation from 2nd semester grades reports.
Contact fall sports program publication advertisers.
Have completed all faculty/coaching position(s) hires for the upcoming year.
Have completed the end of the year financial report for the Board of Education.
Have completed the Gender Equity in Sports Act report for the Department of Education.
Confirm/schedule school/district wide physical exams for the fall.
Send Athletic student-athlete handbooks to be printed for fall handout.
Schedule date for fall coaches and parent meetings.
Complete scheduling for all summer activities (summer camps), team and individual camps.
Schedule meeting with maintenance personnel and review needs for fall sports.
Review summer camps with coaches and use of school equipment, transportation and facilities.
All lockers emptied, sanitized and disinfected.