Creating an efficient and effective athletic program is no small feat. Coaches and athletic program administrators face daily challenges regarding matters such as budgeting, marketing, travel administration, and risk management. This textbook provides an in-depth discussion of these and other specialized topics in coaching administration—making it the perfect fit for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Building upon on the foundational material of the previous editions, author Dr. Richard Leonard offers an overview of coaching administration with greater focus on the practical application. This updated third edition also includes new chapter organization, contemporary support references, and bonus administrative tips.

The Administrative Side of Coaching: Applying Business Concepts to Athletic Program Administration and Coaching, 3rd Edition, guides undergraduate and graduate students, as well as coaches and program administrators, through the conceptual and tangible operational decisions and tasks necessary to create and manage a viable athletic program.

Human resource management is one of the most important components of business operations in any organization, and sport and recreation programs are no exception. This textbook provides the framework and principles necessary for undergraduate and graduate students to develop, implement, and maintain the human resource strategies and practices that are essential in managing a sport, recreation or athletics program, from community and youth centers, to intramural collegiate and professional sports.

Human Resource Management for Sport and Recreation Programs examines foundational concepts and the practical elements of human resource management, providing detailed insight, and a step by step look at overall program policies and plan development, program implementation and management, including personnel recruitment, onboarding and assessment techniques, planning and procedures for corrective action, as well as examining relevant legal, ethical, and safety considerations governing the employer—employee relationship. This text is essential in understanding how to successfully recruit, retain, reward, and maintain the most valuable resource of any organization: it’s people.

Summer Sports Camps 101: A Guidebook for Development and Operation is a comprehensive manual that will take the reader through all of the administrative nuances of creating and operating a summer sports camp. Funding, for the majority of athletic programs, is one of the most (if not the most) consequential element for administrators and coaches. With the limited amount of resource dollars available and ever-rising expenses, athletic programs have to make difficult financial decisions, which can have long-lasting ramifications on all of the organization's teams and programs. The purpose for this comprehensive guidebook is to provide professional practitioners (coaches and administrators) with the foundations and practical applications to develop and manage a cost-efficient, profitable summer sports camp. Simply stated, professionally-run camps can promote the institution's athletic programs and provide much needed resources and funds. As you will see, the book covers the entire subject from constructing administrative models today-to-day operations. This book could be used by all athletic teams and programs―whether they are starting a summer sports camp for the first time or have an established operation―in their development and execution of lucrative summer sports camps. The book can be used as an all-inclusive handbook for new sports camps or as a reference guide and idea generator for seasoned camp administrators.

Section I: Introduction examines the basic foundations and choices involved with operating a summer sports camp as well as conducting a feasibility study to examine the practicality of the venture.
Section II: Planning defines the clear benefits and uses associated with creating a summers ports camp plan.
Section III: Administration Systems provides indispensable camp system designs for registration, filing, and accounting that are universal to all camps.
Section IV: Human Resources discusses human resource management as an essential part of any summer sports camp. Concepts that have an unmistakable impact on the entire camp, such as selection, orientation, compensation and evaluation, are reviewed.
Section V: Marketing Systems furnishes detailed marketing and promotional ideas that can enlarge the camp's exposure as well as increase revenues.
Section VI: Risk Management and Camp Operations enables the reader to become a critical thinker in the area of risk management and camper safety.