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This Michigan map includes Academy member schools. TASL schools are diverse: including large public and private schools, as well as small town and city institutions across the state. TASL schools also share one characteristic: all of them are committed to training and mentoring women to become important players in Michigan's coaching profession.
TASL membership ranges from simply belonging to our consortium as an Academy supporter to the larger commitment of selecting top female student-athletes for our annual Future Coaches Camp and coaches for our bi-annual Michigan Women's Sport Summit.
TASL member schools are 27 strong since we began our programs. General information about these schools includes their affiliation as public or private, their current enrollment and the class and athletic conference they play in.
More specific to TASL's purpose are the number of sponsored sports for girls that they offer and the percent of reported head coaches who are women. All of this information was accessed from the Michigan High School Athletic Association website, www.mhsaa.com. (Note: Schools may offer more sports than those listed as sponsored. Likewise, not all sports included the name of a head coach, and some coaches teach multiple sports at the same school.)
We have tallied the number of student-athletes from our member schools who have attended the Academy's Future Coaches Camp. Many of these young women are now coaching throughout the state of Michigan. We plan to tell some of their stories as we build the alumna news section of this website.
If you are a coach, athletic administrator or a young woman interested in the coaching profession, working and going to a Michigan school, please join our consortium, so we can add you to our map!
Alum News
Coaches Camp 2008: Being on the Same Team With Your Most Hated Rivals
This summer's Future Coaches Camp was memorable in several ways. For the first time, we welcomed campers from Notre Dame Prep in Pontiac, L'Anse Creuse in Harrison Township and Gabriel Richard in Ann Arbor. Also for the first time, we enjoyed a new presentation by Carmen Kennedy, one of TASL's recent additions to our Board. Carmen's talk focused on the twists and turns she experienced and the hard work it took to get selected for her current position as athletic director of Grosse Pointe North High School.
For the campers, 2008 Future Coaches sessions had different twists and turns; the most significant one the "ropes course" they participate in the first day. Without a doubt, the ropes course remains a favorite part of the camp, even if the girls have participated in challenge programs like the one offered by the University of Michigan (www.recsports.umich.edu/challenge) before.
Why? Well, I got the answer firsthand from Leah Topper, one of the special 8 young women who attended our class this year. Not enough for a full team? No matter. The girls loved being part of the few, and the accompanying special attention showered on them from our many faculty, especially Camp Leader, our President Meg Seng.
I talked with Leah about her impressions and what she learned at Future Coaches Camp 2008.
First, about Leah. She is a junior at Greenhills School in Ann Arbor. She is a three sport varsity athlete, playing on the volleyball, basketball and softball teams. In fact, Leah made the varsity teams in volleyball and in softball in 9th grade at Greenhills. She is especially proud of and cherishes getting on the varsity volleyball team her freshman year: her older sister, a senior was captain of the team.
