Issue
November/December 2004.
11 articles
The November/December 2004 issue of BFS Magazine collects 11 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Squat, Safety, and Nutrition. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss and Karin Alexander, J.D.. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The PEP Rally
by Karin Alexander, J.D. The PEP Rally Savvy ways to win a PEP Grant to fund new student-athlete programs Do you have enough money allotted for fitness activities at your school? Not likely: it’s just a fact of life that there will always be greater need for worthy programs than
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Dwight Phillip's Leap of Faith
by Kim Goss JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images Dwight Phillips overcame major obstacles, including gravity, to become the best long jumper in the world Arizona. Charles said that Phillips had poor upperdid: Just three weeks before the Olympics, Phillips body strength and was relativ
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Bellevue Beats De La Salle
High school football teams seldom get the attention of the national media, but De La Salle High School in Concord, California, is not your typical high school football team. With 12 straight undefeated seasons, a 151-game winning streak that dates back to December 7, 1991, the Sp
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Heisman Fever
by Kim Goss All photos courtesy S.I. departments of the respective schools A look at what’s shaping up to be one of the most unpredictable Heisman Trophy races of all time If you had predicted that Napoleon Dynamite would be one of the most profitable movies of 2004, most people
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Risky Business
by Karin Alexander, J.D. A closer look at coaching actions and attitudes that put you at risk for a lawsuit You’re an experienced coach who follows all the safety protocols with your athletes, so you don’t have to worry about injuries or being sued in a personal injury case, righ
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Preventing ACL Injuries
A lthough there is no such thing as a “good” knee injury, one of the most devastating is an injury to the anterior crucial ligament (ACL). In the past this was often a “kiss of death” injury, and those who did recover faced a recovery period that could often take as much as a yea
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The Cardinal Rules of Athletic Success
It’s exceptional to be one of the most promising high school athletes in the country in one sport, and it’s even more rare to excel in five. To excel in five sports while also taking honors classes and earning a 3.92 grade average is almost unheard of. But Sarah Cardinal is a rar
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Saline High's $100,000 Dream
The step-by-step process used to build one of the finest high school weightrooms in the country One of the best high school weightrooms in the country now belongs to Saline High School in Saline, Michigan. BFS Midwest Director Jeff Sellers worked with Athletic Director Ed Gall an
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The Making of Nellie
“NELLIE” A closer look at the documentary about an inspirational man who helps boys become men At a small college in the Pacific Northwest, a man struggles to get out of bed every morning. And because he does, the lives of hundreds of young men and women have been changed forever
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Extreme Makeover, Southern-Style
A new attitude, along with a new weightroom, has given H.V. Jenkins High School a bright future One of the most popular themes in TV reality shows is “the makeover.” In the past, most of these transformations consisted of changing hairstyles, using make-up wisely, and (listen up,
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