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An associate athletics director actually performed the functions of athletic director on a daily basis in the name of the coach. At a few institutions where basketball was the predominant sport, the head men's basketball coach was treated similarly. In recent decades, this system has been almost entirely abandoned; collegiate sports, especially ...
Sports psychiatry is a medical specialty that aims to treat and prevent mental disorders in athletes and helps them use different techniques to enhance their performance. [1] First mentioned in literature in 1967, it is a developing area [2] that relies on other fields, like sports psychology. [3]
Kevin Michael White (born September 25, 1950) [1] is an American college administrator, and former athletic director at Duke University. He held this position from May 30, 2008, until his retirement on September 1, 2021. White succeeded Joe Alleva as the Blue Devils' AD when Alleva accepted the same position at Louisiana State University.
The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) is a professional non-profit organization for college and university athletic directors in the United States. NACDA boasts a membership of more than 6,100 individuals and more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico .
While at ECU, Compher's first big decision as athletics director was to fire popular head football Ruffin McNeill after a 5-7 season. This gained national attention and uproar at ECU as Ruffin McNeill posted the second-most wins in school history with multiple nationally-ranked teams.
Mack Bernard Rhoades IV is American college athletics administrator. He is the athletic director at Baylor University, a position he has held since July 2016. [1] Rhoades was previously the athletic director at the University of Akron from 2006 to 2009, the University of Houston from 2009 to 2015, and the University of Missouri from 2015 to 2016.
Sport psychology is defined as the study of the psychological basis, processes, and effects of sport. [1] One definition of sport sees it as "any physical activity for the purposes of competition, recreation, education or health". [2]
[2] [4] Under his leadership, 10 of 11 sports programs at Clark College made post-season appearances in 2013. [5] He then served as the athletic director of the San Francisco State Gators from 2014 to 2017. [5] Guthrie’s tenure as the head of the Gators athletic department was a short one, but he accomplished a great deal in that time.