ADInsider Podcast

On this episode of the AD Insider Podcast, Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association (WADA) Board Members discuss liability concerns related to COVID-19 and Scott Swid from WADA’s legal team weighs in on this conversation and offers great insight on how to reduce liabilities as Athletic Directors bring athletes back on campus.

Featured Panelists Include:

• Eric Plitzuweit - Burlington HS
• Mel Dow - Stoughton HS
• Scott Swid - WADA Legal Advisor
• Brian Margelofsky - Northland Pine HS
• Mary Schradle-Mau - Turtle Lake ISD
• Todd Sobrilsky - Waukesha South HS

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On this episode of the AD Insider Podcast, Seven Athletic Directors from across the country give their Fall forecasts, answer questions from over 700 live attendees, and discuss how they are staying prepared for the unknowns.

Featured Panelists:

• Kevin Bryant - Redmond School District (OR)
• Bryan Koury - Lorain City Schools (OH)
• Lanness Robinson - Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL)
• Jill Stobber - Waterford Union High School (WI)
• Mike McGurk - Lee's Summit North HS (MO)
• Dan Armstrong - Northwestern HS (IN)
• Debbie Decker - Katy ISD (TX)

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In this episode of the AD Insider Podcast, we take listeners inside a conversation with the Founder and President of The Game Changers, Inc., Eric Boles. Eric is a former NFL Player and now Executive Coach for popular fortune 500 brands such as Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, Hasbro, Kraft Foods, and the U.S. Air Force.

Throughout this interview Eric shares with us how he is helping leaders across the world, as well as his daughter's college volleyball team, push through the fog of the pandemic and lead. 

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On this episode of the AD Insider Podcast, Six Athletic Directors from across the country discuss the National HS Athletic Director Pandemic Survey Results, answer questions regarding how they are addressing COVID-19 related challenges, and share their thoughts on what the future holds for their athletic communities.

 
Featured Panelists:

Philip O'Neal
Mansfield ISD (TX)
 
Jean Kinn Ashen
North Salinas HS (CA)

Emily Barkley
Union Public Schools (OK)
 
Darryl Nance
Greenville County Schools (SC)

Mike Hughes
Lakewood HS (CO)

Jeff Sitz
Wisconsin Lutheran (WI)

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In this episode of the AD Insider Podcast we reached out to four Athletic Directors across the country to ask what they have learned over the last few weeks, in terms of Emergency Action Plans, how they are paying their Spring coaches, and how this crisis could affect Fall sports...and potentially interscholastic sports as we know it.

Guests featured on this episode are:

• Michael Hughes, Athletic Director - Lakewood HS (CO)
• Jeff Peitz, Athletic Director - Lakeside HS (WA)
• Jean Kinn Ashen, Athletic Director - North Salinas HS (CA)
• Steve Young, Athletic Director - New Rochelle HS (NY)

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Is the COVID-19 pandemic being handled efficiently by your Athletic Department? How have your student-athletes been affected and what steps are being taken to protect your program?

Join us today as we speak with Mike Blackburn (NIAAA) and Athletic Directors from across the country to discuss how they are responding to this national current issue.

In the US as of March 12, 2020 at 11:40am there have been 1401 reported cases of COVID-19 and 40 confirmed deaths. In response to the rising numbers colleges are closing, the Power 5 Conferences have canceled spring sports indefinitely, and the NBA has canceled the rest of their season.

This episode of the AD Insider podcast features:

• Mike Blackburn, Executive Director of the NIAAA
• Steve Young, Athletic Director - New Rochelle HS (NY)
• Jean Kinn Ashen, Athletic Director - North Salinas HS (CA)
• Jason Culler, Associate Athletic Director - Jenks Public Schools (OK)
• Terry Jamieson, Principal - Hollister HS (MO)
• Dave Archer, College Professor and Executive Director for the National High School Basketball Coaches Association

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Are you being selfish when you think you’re being selfless? Are there gaps in your personal or your organization’s performance? Do you struggle with confronting coworkers when their performance is not up to par?

This episode of the ADInsider podcast features performance coach Alan Stein, Jr. to discuss these questions and more.

Early in his career, Alan was a basketball trainer at DeMatha Catholic High School, where he was responsible for increasing the performance of elite athletes like Kevin Durant. Now, Alan is the author of one of Amazon's "Best Business and Leadership Books of 2019" - Raise Your Game, an organization performance consultant, and a keynote speaker. In these roles, he strives to help individuals and organizations all over the country raise their game.

In our conversation, we dive into Alan's unique perspective that spans both the scholastic and corporate worlds to uncover ways Athletic Directors can close their personal and eventually their athletic department's performance gaps.

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This episode of the ADInsider podcast brings us to Columbus, Ohio inside the OIAAA State Conference, where we had the chance to chat with Madeira City Schools' Athletic Director Joe Kimling. 

Joe shares his experience of taking over a school that had a culture some considered to be toxic and how he and his staff were able to implement a culture-changing blueprint that is now used by every school in his district. 

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This episode of the ADInsider podcast brings in Mental Health expert Dr. Lee Dorpfeld.

As the Behavior Health Coordinator at the University of South Florida, Lee Dorpfeld is in the trenches everyday helping Student-Athletes and Coaches maintain a healthy mental state through all the stresses of high-level athletics. 

In this coversation we discuss:

• The merging of Sports Psychology and Mental Health and why Athletic Directors should know this.
• The 3 R's to helping at-risk Athletes and Coaches in the Athletic Department.
• Steps to implementing a Mental Health Support System.

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This episode of the ADInsider podcast was recorded at the National Athletic Directors Conference, where we had the chance to sit down with Sports Law expert Dr. Lee Green to discuss:

• What Athletic Directors and Coaches really need to know about avoiding lawsuits. 
• The current state of social media law in schools.
• The biggest scholastic legal issue of 2019.

Dr. Lee Green is an attorney and Professor Emeritus at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, where for 30 years he taught courses in sports law, business law, and constitutional law. 

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