The 2008 Texas High School Coaches Association Coaching School—Professional Development Cooperative Presentations provides over six hours of the most up-to-date information available on critical health/safety and sports-medicine issues. As an integral step in the THSCA's ongoing effort to bridge the gap between science and practice in the athletic arena, the professional development cooperative initiative is an important part of the THSCA's annual coaching school. Among the topics featured on this 3-disc DVD set are: The Coach’s Role in Emergency Management (Bud Curtis), Sudden Cardiac Awareness Seminar (Mark Feldman, Lisa Salbert, Mack Brown, and Matt Nader), Heat Illness in Athletics (Marc Powell), Asthma, Diabetes, and Seizures in Athletics (Timothy Palomera), Implementation of Senate Bill 7 (Josh Woodall), Staph Prevention in the Field House (Mike Carroll), Steroids: Use, Abuse, and Drug Testing (Richard Steffen), Performance Enhancing Drugs: Anything to Win (Timothy Palomera), ACL Tears: Can We Prevent Them? (David R. Schmidt), The Stress Fracture Epidemic in Athletes (Bud Curtis), and Head Injury and Concussion in Athletes (Paul Saenz).