I attribute this one as many new coaches enter a sport. I have 5 years (1989-1994) of American Athletics and 22 years (1994-2017). I keep them in the old church. I will start offering them five, ten, then five years of packages. If interested, email me. Mail runblogra@gmail.comA number add a subject line, ATF. I also throw some examples of coaching athletics.
I wanted to write this column for many years. I have been successful in working with the best coaches in our sport and have developed friends with the best coaches in the world. This will be a continuous column.
Coaches change lives. My coaches Desmet, Bellarmine and Santa Clara, changed my life for the better. Ralph Passarelli, Sj, Jim Marheincke, Rich Grawer, Jesse Ochoa, Fr. Ray Davley, Steve Pencing, Steve Poley and Dan Danta have helped see the opportunities in our sport.
I was fortunate to work with some amazing coaches, Terry Wes prepares Belarusian, Dan Duranten at Santa Clara University, Hank Kattes’s peanut. While I worked in Santa Clara, Bill Delinger and John Chaplin always answered my naive questions very thoughtfully, like Brookson. I am in their debt forever and I believe that these relations have been formed by my answers to sports over the last fifty years.
- Go to coaching education clinics at least once a year. The coaches I met, new and old, young and not so young, I was told that every year the coach clinic was preparing. I used to leave in August in California and in January of each year in Wisconsin. It’s not only a lot of coaches listening, but also communicating with coaches to help you learn.
- Subscribe to coaching magazines. Track technualique, old people, athletics weekly coach, American path and field all people in the American Athletics have great pieces that need to be mentioned.
- Follow YouTube videos on coaching. Check the interview with great coaches and our #-SocialingTeTancy with Sean Brosnan, Danny Mackey, Julie, Julie Koolley and Lance Bruuman, among others.
- Get a coaching mentor. Find a coach that you trust, check it or her several times a year and ask questions. Learn how to manage tough athletes, cross the challenge to the athletes and deal with the parents who are supernated. All of these things help you make a better coach.
- Learn something new every day. Open for new things. Listen to your athletes. Ask your athletes’ questions. Try and check new things. Some of the most experienced coaches told me that they were trying to stay open to new things every day.