coaching advice
November 8, 2022
Seven Essentials of Great Teams
If you have ever experienced the miracle of a great team as either a player or a coach, it is something that you will always remember. Making a team a great team involves choices that are in the control of the participants. Building that team inv...
October 6, 2022
6 Strategies to Help Coaches Defeat Adversity
It’s frustrating for athletes when they’re running on fumes, feeling like they have nothing more to give and that no matter what they do there is nothing left to push past a seemingly insurmountable wall. They can feel hopelessness, discouragemen...
July 26, 2022
The 2022 Coaches Survey Results
Referee shortages, the safety of players, staff, and personnel, and social media issues are just a few of the hot-button issues highlighted in our fourth annual Coaches Survey. Back in 2018, Coach & Athletic Director began surveying high sch...
June 2, 2022
How Do We Evaluate Growth in Coaches
An athletic director's role is one of the most challenging and rewarding opportunities a person can have. Duties include scheduling, field maintenance, hiring coaches, managing facilities, upholding athletic codes, academic eligibility, budgets, trav...
June 1, 2022
Psych Safety — The Number One Area Coaches Need to Develop
If a coach only looks at their team through their own eyes, they may as well be wearing a blindfold. A coach’s vision alone will never provide the most important view. That comes through the eyes of the student-athletes — it has to. Only they ca...
May 17, 2022
How to Better Connect With Your Athletes
What is coaching? Is it mentoring, instructing, and showing hungry athletes the best way to achieve their goals or is it allowing them to find their own way, offering guidance and support? It’s a combination of all these things and more. It’s a w...
January 5, 2022
How to be Unscoutable to Opposing Basketball Teams
One aspect of coaching I always loved was scouting and game planning. Not the hours or the late-night trips to watch an opponent. But the putting together of the game plan was a fun challenge for me. It was like putting the pieces of a puzzle togethe...
January 4, 2022
Holding Athletes Back to Excel in HS Sports is a Growing Trend
A recent article from the Evansville Courier & Press discussed the growing trend of parents holding back their student-athletes in an effort for them to mature more, and therefore, excel in his or her sport of choice. The article's author, Gor...
The recipients of the Most Valuable Athletic Trainer Award are the inspiration for others in the field to strive for excellence and raise the standards in sports medicine. tinyurl.com/zmxna8a5
