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Sports camps as recruiting tools for HS coaches? Hmm…
Where do we draw the line for coaches trying to build good high school sports programs, but also needing to avoid the appearance of recruiting? And on which side of that line do sports camps fall? This whole ongoing issue of trying to prevent high schools from recruiting grade-school kids into their sports programs is [...] -
Pat’s Run organizers hoping to raise $1 million this year
The Arizona State Sun Devils averaged just a tad over 59,000 people for their football games last season. A crowd more than half that size will descend on the stadium in a little over a week for the annual Pat’s Run, which finishes up on the 42-yard line of Sun Devil Stadium. Participation at last [...] -
ASU’s latest surprise…a facelift for Sun Devil Stadium
First, they circled the wagons on the Arizona State campus following the firing of the athletic director. Now they’re sending out the advance party. Immediately after Steve Patterson was unexpectedly announced as the new AD, replacing Lisa Love, the athletic department began sending out statements of support from the various coaches for a program that [...] -
Power-point formula changed in time for HS spring sports
Sometimes, the wheels of progress turn slowly and a little push is needed to get them moving faster. That’s basically what happened last month when a local engineer, who was also a frustrated high school sports fan, decided to give the state’s prep governing body a little push by taking his case for changing the [...] -
Lisa Campos hired to replace AD Jim Fallis at NAU
When Arizona State fired Lisa Love earlier this week, it removed the only female athletic director among Arizona’s Division I colleges. But that situation lasted all of two days before Northern Arizona University announced the hire of Lisa Campos. Lisa out, Lisa in. Campos was hired away from the University of Texas at El Paso, [...] -
Lisa Love replaced after 7 years as ASU athletic director
The other shoe has finally dropped in the Arizona State athletic department. Lisa Love, the embattled athletic director, is out after seven years that got off to a great start but ran into turbulent times that has strained the school’s public image. ASU formally announced in an 11 a.m. press conference that Steve Patterson will [...] -
NAU’s Jim Fallis is leaving AD post…is ASU’s Love next?
The announced departure of Jim Fallis at Northern Arizona University means that Arizona State‘s Lisa Love will become the longest-tenured athletic director at the three state Division I colleges. And she has been there fewer than seven years. However, that could change in the not-too-distant future. Love’s base of support at ASU has been eroding [...] -
New division alignments, scheduling frustrate prep teams
The new division alignments for Arizona high school sports programs are coming to the end of a two-year shake-out period that has uncovered a number of ‘challenges’ for the schools involved. As the high school winter sports season winds down, new issues have arisen as a result of the computer scheduling that is now being [...] -
Sand volleyball may be coming to a high school near you
Arizona’s governing body for high school sports is sticking its collective toe in the sand as it considers adding a new varsity sport to the landscape. Sand volleyball is riding a wave of popularity and the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) is hoping to capitalize on that interest. The volleyball variation has always been a great [...] -
AIA mandates concussion testing for high school athletes
Looks like the AIA has finally found a way to create new programs for high school sports without getting a lot of blow-back. The Arizona Interscholastic Association, the governing body for the state’s high schools, has been getting lots of grief for changes it made in the division alignments over a year ago. The traditional [...]
