Panel Topics

• Emphasizing the "student" in student-athlete
• • AAU and club sports issues
  • Eligibility issues
  • High school validation and review process
  
  
• Panelists: Calvin Davis, Louis James, Bob Sakamoto, Kurt Gibson, Carolyn O'Connell, William Kling, Carol Reep

• Coaches and athletic directors: training and management
• • Selecting and training qualified coaches and athletic directors
  • Emerging liability: contact sports
  • Risk management
  
  
• Panelists: John Planek, Calvin Davis, Eldon Ham, Jim Bloch, Mike Steele

Addressing the audience: Marty Hickman, Executive Director, IHSA



Keynote speaker: David Kaplan, WGN Radio



Panel: Eldon Ham, Attorney & President, Sports Is Education Foundation; John Planek, Athletic Director, Loyola University; Mike Steele, Positive Coaching Alliance: Area Coordinator, Chicago; Calvin Davis, Director of Sports Administration, CPS



Panel: William Kling, Attorney; Bob Sakamoto, Sportswriter, Chicago Tribune; Carolyn O'Connell, Sr. Associate Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator, Loyola University; Carol Reep, NCAA; Louis James, Sports Operations, CPS; Kurt Gibson, IHSA

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