Video: Coaches clinic signals start of another high school season
BATON ROUGE – Full-squad practices are a couple of weeks away, but another season of high school sports is effectively underway with the conclusion of the annual Louisiana High School Coaches Association clinic here Wednesday.
For LHSCA director Eric Held, the event is a year-long planning process that starts days after the preceding year’s clinic ends.
For the attendees, which numbered more than 1,000 this week, it means that the start of another season is on the horizon and a chance to meet face-to-face with their colleagues.
For those in the college ranks like Tulane women’s basketball coach Lisa Stockton and Southern Miss men’s basketball coach Jay Ladner, to name two of many college head and assistant coaches who spoke over the last 48 hours, it’s an opportunity to give back to their profession and to re-connect with coaches from their region.
Across the state, football and volleyball practices will be in full swing by early August. This week’s event serves as a reminder of that point on the calendar.
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Lenny was involved in college athletics starting in the early 1980s, when he began working Tulane University sporting events while still attending Archbishop Rummel High School. He continued that relationship as a student at Loyola University, where he graduated in 1987. For the next 11 years, Vangilder worked in the sports information offices at Southwestern Louisiana (now UL-Lafayette) and Tulane;…
