The Most Important Duty of an Athletic Administrator with Dan Armstrong – (Retired) Northwestern High School (IN)

The duty to plan is paramount to all other duties as an athletic administrator! That should be passed on from you to your coaching staff.

Courts will rarely find that a school and its athletics personnel have acted with reasonable care unless a written plan is in place for fulfilling all of the legal duties to protect student-athletes from harm.

 

This material comes from an NIAAA Leadership Training Institute Course taught at the Indiana High School Athletic Administrators State Conference.