captains

August 19, 2015

Survey: How do you choose your captains?

What's the best method for choosing captains for your athletic programs? High school and college teams have a variety of methods for choosing their team leaders, so we asked readers in July whether the decisions were left to coaches or players. He...


November 28, 2012

Creating a ‘Captains Club’ at your school

Looking to develop your athletes into more responsible and respected leaders? A Captains Club (or Council) is an innovative trend catching on at several colleges and high schools across the nation and paying big dividends. Instead of just hoping t...


August 29, 2011

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...


September 20, 2009

Properly developing player leadership

Vince Lombardi once said, "Leaders are made, not born." In our program, we believe this statement and work hard to put it into action. The most important part of a basketball program is the kids. Peer pressure, whether positive or negative, is a gre...