The coach of a California high school girls’ basketball team was suspended two games for a big win.
And we mean, big.
Arroyo Valley High School defeated Bloomington High School, 161-2 last month. And it’s not first time Arroyo Valley had won by large margins. The Hawks had scored more than 100 points twice before, but this 159-point win created enough backlash that the school felt it needed to act and suspended Coach Michael Anderson for the two games.
Not that benching the coach made much of a difference. In the first game without Coach Anderson, Arroyo Valley won, 80-19. The Hawks were coached by Anderson’s 19-year-old son.
For his part, Anderson said he talked with the Bloomington head coach before the game, explaining that this was the Hawks’ last game before league play and that his team was going to play hard. “I wanted to let him know there was no harm intended,” Anderson told the Orange County Register, “and that i...
The National Association of Sports Commissions (NASC) recently graduated 17 members from its Certified Sports Event Executive (CSEE) Program. Graduates included members who completed the certification requirements this past fall in Louisville or at the recent CSEE Spring 2008 Module in Omaha.
The CSEE Program, open only to NASC members, is a continuing education style program where participants are provided with cutting edge knowledge from topics relevant to the sports event industry. Modules cover a variety of topics relevant to the industry that increases participant's efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace.
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