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More Coaches, Athletic Directors And Trainers Are Continuing Their Education Online
Online, video correspondence courses are growing at a rapid rate and offer an expansive list of classes You wake up before the sun rises. After getting yourself ready for the day, you spend a few minutes with your family, then it’s off to educate ...
Expanding the summer ‘dead period’ makes sense
Most states across the country have a specified dead period in the summer when high school student-athletes are not allowed any contact with their coaches, nor are they allowed to utilize school facilities. The intention is to give athletes a muc...
Reversing course: The story of the 2010 Xavier soccer team
A blueprint for how head coach Andy Fleming turned around a struggling program [caption id="attachment_25481" align="aligncenter" width="491"] Photos courtesy of Xavier athletics.[/caption] The Xavier Musketeers men's soccer team took the field i...
The 7 attributes of effective team leaders
All of us want to equip our captains and team leaders with the skills they need in order to be effective. I believe that the success our leaders experience is in direct relationship to how well we train them to lead the team. According to John...
Coach…Do You Know Yourself?
When a person understands himself he will understand his basic needs and true motivation and will learn to behave in a manner which will satisfy those needs. Self-understanding will also enable one to understand and relate to other people more effe...
Basketball: Shaka Smart’s three best inbound plays
DIAGRAM 1: Inbound Play 1 (A). From a box set, 5 screens for 4. 4 heads toward the ball-side corner. 5 then receives a backscreen from 2. 5 rolls to the hoop while 3 shifts for a possible outlet pass. DIAGRAM ...
Ten ways to manage your team with integrity
As coaches, we have to see ourselves as CEOs. So when I read this article listing maxims for success in public relations, I knew it’d be a benefit to us. Much like public relations professionals — and as the CEOs of our programs — we must cons...
Ten business truisms that apply to sports, coaching
We should always try to learn and get better. I’m always scouring the internet for anything that makes me a better coach, and I once read an article about business truism that can improve your life. I discovered that many of those principles apply...
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