The Marlins ' first manager was Rene Lachemann, a former catcher who had previously managed the Seattle Mariners and Milwaukee Brewers, and who at the time of his hiring was a third base coach for the Oakland Athletics.

After ending his career, Nurmi became a coach for the Finnish Athletics Federation and trained runners for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

A month later, the team announced that Oakland Athletics third base coach Ron Washington had accepted their offer to manage the team.

He served as athletics director and coach at the University of Missouri from 1910 to 1917, Director of Army Athletics for the U. S. War Department during 1918, served as director of athletics and professor of physical education from 1919 to1922 at MAC / Michigan State University, and held the same positions at the University of California-Davis until returning to Missouri where he served as athletics director until 1935.

He was a major league coach for the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Athletics and White Sox during the 1960s and early 1970s, and worked as a batting instructor for the Atlanta Braves in the 1980s.

In October 2009 Idaho State University Director of Athletics Jeff Tingey announced that the contract of head football coach John Zamberlin would be extended for two more years, meaning Zamberin will be on the Bengal sidelines manning the program through the 2011 season.

Lopat managed the Triple-A Richmond Virginians for the Yankees in the late 1950s, and in served one season as the Yankees ' pitching coach before holding the same post with the Minnesota Twins in and the Kansas City Athletics in.

He also remained active in sports, being head coach for the Japanese Athletics Association, and acting as manager of the national team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

In his last job in the majors Hartnett worked as a coach and scout for the Kansas City Athletics for two years in the mid-1960s.

After two years as a coach for the 1977-78 Oakland Athletics, Schoendienst returned to the Cardinals as coach and special assistant to the general manager.

After his playing days ended, Simmons served as a coach for Mack's Athletics ( 1945 – 49 ) and the Cleveland Indians ( 1950 ).

After leaving in 1923, Kid Gleason would go on to coach under manager Connie Mack with the Philadelphia Athletics until his death of a heart ailment in 1933, at the age of 66, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After his playing career ended, Herzog rejoined the Athletics for two seasons, as a scout in 1964 and a coach in 1965.

He subsequently was a coach for the Oakland Athletics in 1969 and managed the Athletics ' minor league affiliates the Iowa Oaks and the Tucson Toros in the 1970s.

He returned to the Athletics as a player / coach in 1913, amassing only 33 plate appearances over the next five seasons combined.

He continued as a coach and scout with Mack's Athletics until 1927 and also served as a Philadelphia City Councilman.

James Joseph Dykes ( November 10, 1896 – June 15, 1976 ) was an American third and second baseman, manager and coach in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox from 1918 to 1939.

He returned to the majors in 1949 as a coach with the Athletics ; one year later, Mack retired after 50 years managing his team, naming Dykes as his successor for the 1951 season.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, the only athletics club in the world to be named after a coach, the Lydiard Athletics Club, was founded in 2009 to promote Lydiard's training methodology and promote running as a way of life amongst the youth.

Barry Alvarez ( born December 30, 1946 ) is a former American football player and coach and currently the Director of Athletics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

* Tommy Clay, sports writer, coach and administrator, founder of Holbeach Athletics Club, awarded the BEM for services to sport.

The Louisville loss led to rumors that Coker's firing was imminent, but Miami Director of Athletics Paul Dee gave Coker a vote of confidence, stating that he would coach at least through the end of the season.

" Athletics and participation in the Greek system are the most popular campus activities ; in all, Dartmouth offers more than 350 organizations, teams, and sports.

Fencing is one of five sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics.

* Victoria College Athletics Association ( VCAA ), which provides students with a chance to participate and compete in intramural sports.

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

It is governed by IPC Athletics, and is one of the sports at the Summer Paralympic Games since 1960.

Athletics is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition.

Athletics is one of the sports at the biennial summer Universiade competition.

In sports, the Oakland Athletics MLB club won three consecutive World Series championships in 1972, 1973, and 1974, in addition to three consecutive World Series appearances from 1988 to 1990 ; the A's won the 1989 contest.

Instead an organization named the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women ( AIAW ) governed women's collegiate sports in the United States.

Those sports were initially governed by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, but were continued when the NCAA became the governing body in 1982.

Wittenberg ended the 2009 fall sports season ranked 16th among more than 430 NCAA Division III schools in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ( NACDA )

The town also has their own organized sports program, the Westport Youth Athletics Association ( WYAA ) which serves sports from as soon as even three years old, all the way up until 8th grade.

Quincy's only college sports program is the " Lions " of Eastern Nazarene College, in the DIII Commonwealth Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletics Association ( NCAA ) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference ( ECAC ).

and Newbury C. C .. Newbury also has two strong athletics clubs with Team Kennet and Newbury Athletics Club and there are Newbury District Leagues in many other sports such as badminton, table tennis, squash and darts.

The township has individual organizations that run each youth sports program, including Little League Baseball ( WMLL ), Police Athletic League ( PAL ) Basketball, PAL Soccer, West Milford-Star Athletics Cheerleading, Midget Football Association ( WMMFA ) Football, WMMFA Cheerleading, Amateur Baseball Association ( WMABA ) Baseball, and Girls Softball Association softball ( WMGSA ).

Aberdeen is more populated but the two cities have a long rivalry especially in high school sports ( see Athletics ).

On 27 January 2012, the International Association of Athletics Federations announced that Nestlé will be the main sponsor for the further development of IAAF's Kids ' Athletics Programme, which is one of the biggest grassroots development programmes in the world of sports.

Sports facilities in Colchester include the sports centre, Colchester Leisure World, Colchester Garrison Athletics Stadium ( a co-operative facility used by both the army and civilian population ), and a skatepark.

The American League's Philadelphia Athletics had moved to Kansas City, Missouri after the 1954 season, and Philadelphians weren't about to lose another professional sports franchise.

They compete in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ) in all 19 intercollegiate varsity sports and have won the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ( NACDA ) Directors ' Cup for NCAA Division II every year from 2004 to 2011 after finishing second in 2002 and 2003.

Athletics, swimming, fencing, diving, baseball, boxing, basketball, equestrian, football, artistic gymnastics, rowing, wrestling, shooting, tennis, weightlifting and water polo are the only summer sports that have never been absent from the Pan American Games program.