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Athletic Director
Samuel Beene
Brian Cahoon
Senior Capstone
Samuel Beene
Brian Cahoon
Senior Capstone
Athletic Director
Becoming an athletic director would be an amazing job because of the interaction with
mom and dads and being around student athletes all year. An athletic directors job is vital, they
make sure everything is intact and organized. They make the schedules and let everyone know
what is going on. Most kids are involved in at least one sport, if not more during their lifetime.
Being an athletic director is cool: to be around lots of kids and give opportunities for the kids to
enjoy the sport. An athletic department is ran effectively by an athletic director who
enforces rules and policies, by hosting well-run events and following title IX compliances.
What are the main rules and policies of a athletic director in a high school. In another
interview an athletic director talk about how they must have all application submitted for
fall,winter and spring sports and a specific day, also it is and athletic director job to place the
athletic policy of the school districts in writing and communicative it often to coaches,athletes
parents,and people watching each event.He was ask how does game run and he stated the manual
educationally sound athletic program, all student athletes on each level at the school you are
being an athletic director at it is your job to give uniforms and proper equipment for practice and
competition. It is a athletic director job to punish students because of their grade/behavior and
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maybe even lack of sportsmanship in games.Athletic director are suppose to provide printed
programs of the players on all team to MHSAA to see if all the student athletes attending sports
that season are eligible or have the physicals,also showing that all players on each team should
show sportsmanship in every game win or lose.It is also the A.D job to find a coach that fits the
job and each sport. Finally one of the main rules and athletic director has to follow is that you
cannot recruit players in any way basically saying you can't have meeting with a student and
parents basically forcing to come to your school to play sports. A local athletic director at a close
school and they were ask two questions first one was, What are responsibilities of and athletic
director secondly they ask him and he stated Scheduling events, assigning official for each even,
managing events hiring coaches at least a month before scheduled practices.Wyoming Lee
students must be passing 66% of their current course and have passed 66% of the classes the
previous trimester Cain said. All athletic director must attend all school meeting,district
meeting,ok conference meetings, MHSAA meetings and title IX meeting cain also said. It is also
and athletic director responsibilities to count all the money from each event and paying the
official the right amount of money. (Faasse, Jason Personal interview. 13 Apr. 2017. )
How does an Athletic director host and run-well events? Setting up schedules where and
when all events are being played and at what time is apart of hosting and knowing here your
teams will be going so they can warn the parents or people coming to watch them perform.
Athletic Director most hire an official that have enough confidence to make the right and best
calls for both teams and also make sure everyone is safe at all time in each event,also provide the
officials a meal of some kind. It is up to the A.D to rate the official performance of the game that
he/she called,also should support their calls in case of adverse rulings,so basically dont rate and
official on a bad call they may have on your team.Athletic directors have to maintain sidelines
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for exclusive use of players ,coaches and officials and handling crowds so that no fans are
running on the place the teams are performing on. It is the athletic director decision if you want
all your events to be post on some type of media for everyone to see. It is also the athletic
director's job make sure that the place the games are being played on are in the best shape
possible to avoid injuries of any kind. An athletic direct most host events which means that the
athletic director most give team time to warm up before the game even starts ,also giving the
away team to talk about the game and get dress be for the game. Lastly hosting and events means
that you will need to have a couple people take score and check all the player in the games when
coming of the bench .What is the process for setting scheduling and managing events was the
second question cain answered in the interview. Hiring and coordinate event staff you need and
have to make sure everyone gets out the gym because if something happen it's all on the A.D of
How does each athletic director take care of Title IX compliances? The definition of title
IX is an Amendment to the education act of 1972. What it mandates is that any education
institute that receives federal funds cannot discriminate against persons based on their sex,for
athletic that means schools must provide equal opportunities for both men and women. Schools
cannot only have men's sports or spend money on men's sports without also spending relatively
equal amount on women sports. Also and athletic director can not just give all the money to one
sex male or female.This is the main rule that athletic director have to follow every since the 1972
case because people at highschool and college were complaining about not getting as much as
the opposite sex. Mr. Beckman's boss, Mr. Thomas, was not accused of any wrongdoing, but he
said he understood "that my continued presence may create an ongoing distraction for our students,
coaches, and staff, and I accept the situation."("Sacked." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20
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Nov. 2015, p. A3. Academic OneFile,). Many people feel that athletic director are a small part of
high school athletics,but there are many different assignments an athletic director does every
single day. They run the department for sports and lead athletes to success. Without athletic
directors sport events would be chaotic, because they are the ones who organize the events. They
also make sure the atheletic are prepared for wants to coming up and life so basically role
Works Cited
Beaudin, James A., and Louis Free. "BUILDING TEAMWORK." American School
University, vol. 71, no. 12, 1999, p. 101. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=AONE&sw=w&u=lom_accessmich&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE
Cain, John
Faasse, Jason
"Sacked." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 Nov. 2015, p. A3. Academic OneFile,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=lom_accessmich&v=2.1&it=r&id=GAL