Game Day Program Template: What Schools Should Include for Rosters, Sponsors, and Recognition
A well-designed game day program is more than a printed schedule handed out at the gate. It is the official record of a roster frozen at a specific moment in time, a document of which sponsors supported a program, and for seniors, one of the last times their name appears in an official athletic publication before graduation. Schools that treat game day programs as throwaway handouts miss what they actually are: primary source documents for an athletic department’s archive.
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Athletic Director Transition Plan: What Schools Should Preserve Before Leadership Changes
An athletic director transition plan is the structured handoff process that ensures nothing is lost—records, access credentials, vendor relationships, display system logins, or institutional knowledge—when an athletic director leaves and a successor takes over. Without one, schools routinely discover gaps weeks or months after the transition: a cloud-based hall of fame system with no active admin login, a vendor contract nobody can locate, or athletic records spanning decades stored only in a departed staff member’s personal folders.
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School Archives Policy: How to Preserve, Display, and Govern Historical Materials
A school archives policy is a governing document that defines what historical materials a school owns, how those materials are acquired, how long they are retained, who may access them, and under what conditions they can be displayed or disposed of. Without one, schools accumulate decades of trophies, photographs, championship records, yearbooks, and student documents in no coherent order—leaving significant institutional history vulnerable to loss while exposing the school to compliance risk under FERPA and state records laws.
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