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How Do We Evaluate
Growth in Coaches?
By Greg Winkler, CAA
An athletic director's role is one of the most
challenging and rewarding opportunities a person can
have. Duties include scheduling, field maintenance,
hiring coaches, managing facilities, upholding athletic
codes, academic eligibility, budgets, travel, and conflict
between coaches, athletes, and parents. There is never
an easy day when you oversee a high school athletic
program. AD's are always searching for options to make
their jobs easier.
My experience with this role came as an assistant
athletic director for a large high school in the midwest.
I was in that position for 15 years and worked with
four different athletic directors and temporarily spent
three months in the role. My reluctance to give up
coaching kept me from taking on the role full-time. Each
athletic director I served under expected different job
expectations in my assistant role.
My role expanded under Brian Skortz, currently the
athletic director and head men's basketball coach at
Brescia University in Kentucky. Coach Skortz and I
implemented a character-based program at our high
school. We developed a core value system and spent twoyears
getting it off the ground. We trained the coaches
and started to hold our coaches and athletes more
accountable. The program was taking off when Coach
Skortz moved on, and we hired a new athletic director.
The final piece of the character program was a
program evaluation that we administered at the end
of every season. The school has now had two more
AD's since we implemented the program. The values
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