Defensive coaching

Well, a different kind of defensive coaching than you normally think of when you think of high school sports coaches: For the first time this season, Severna Park Athletic Director Wayne Mook required his coaches to record running times and player evaluation grades, then hand in that paperwork to him. It is an arduous process […]

Well, a different kind of defensive coaching than you normally think of when you think of high school sports coaches:

For the first time this season, Severna Park Athletic Director Wayne Mook required his coaches to record running times and player evaluation grades, then hand in that paperwork to him. It is an arduous process that many coaches find tiresome, but Mook instituted it for a reason: After a player was cut from the girls’ lacrosse team last spring, the family hired lawyers to meet with the school.

(Eli Saslow, “High Schools Address the Cruelest Cut”, Washington Post, Aug. 22).

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