371-81-37 career record and 11 Section 3 championships into the season. She has also coached basketball and track and field.
Administrator Gone Wild Dept.: In Kentucky, Clark County School officials are apologizing to the local newspaper after banning a reporter from the homecoming football game.
The Winchester Sun said Gordon Parido, the principal at George Roger High School, would not allow a reporter in the press box because he didn't like an article the newspaper ran that day. That story was about four white students at the school who allegedly gave a black student a racially charged note.
The paper said Parido has since called to apologize for banning the reporter.
An AD's job is never done: The Journal News look a look Tuesday at the summer life of some area athletic directors, taking note of some of the behind-the-scenes work that administrators handle beyond selecting coaches and scheduling games.
There was nothing surprising in there, but there was one eye-opening note. Bob Buono, the long-time AD at Suffern, says he school is closing in on 100 teams at various levels and various sports.
If you assume that it takes one hour at the end of the season to prepare an evaluation of every coach and another hour to go over it with the coach, that chews up five full weeks (40 hours per week) of his time right there. If scheduling a bus and later confirming the schedule for every away game takes just 10 minutes, that's about another 2 1/2 weeks.
There are numerous other tasks that ADs must also tackle. Don't kid yourself by thinking it's a nine-months-a-year job in a large school district.
Extra points: Bloggers Mark Maier and Dan Enright filed new entries on football and cross country, respectively, this evening. Take a look. . . . The first football rankings of the season will be available on the site late Wednesday afternoon. . . . Coaches and boosters are lobbying the school board in Clarence to replace grass fields with artificial turf, pushing for up to a $3 million bond referendum to fund an three-field, all-purpose complex, The Buffalo News reported. . . . USA Today's top-rated football teams, No. 1 Southlake (Texas) Carroll and No. 2 Miami Northwestern, face each other Saturday in Dallas on ESPNU at 7 p.m.
