As an athletic director you are concerned with the number of athletes on the track-and-field team who are being treated by your sport medicine staff for injuries due to overtraining. The coach tells you that she demands 110% from all her athletes and expects them to train and compete through pain and injury. You could develop a rule that a doctor outside the athletic department must make the decision on whether an athlete will play with pain and injury. Explain what you would do.
It is important for the athletic director to take care of athletes' training and their concerns whether it's physical or mental. Every coach will demand more than 100% from their team however it's also the responsibility of senior members viz. coach and directors to assess each athlete's physical potential and determine plan/schedule for each player individually. These are the steps should be taken by the director.
1. Assess each player's endurance and training potential.
2. Define or plan a training schedule for each player individually according to the assessment.
3. Define performance charts or objectives as part of the plan to monitor the progress of each player
4. Define external stakeholder(Doctor/Physicians) and their role and responsibilities along with their authorities
5. Define certain guidelines(viz. do's and don't) for players to adhere as part of their daily routine (for e.g. diet plans etc.)
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