NEW BOOK RECOMMENDED BY COACHES INSIDER, COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWS AND HALL OF FAME COACH, GEORGE WHITFIELD!
Coaches see the world differently than most people. Coaches certainly see their game, their team and their players differently than anyone else who observes them. The best coaches are mentors to their players, i.e., teachers and role models to them. They understand and strive to coach not just champions but, Champions for Life. They teach life lessons within the game for beyond the game. Their philosophy is, “We coach people, not sports; coaching is simply teaching life lessons using sports as the vehicle. It is the quality of the person, not the player that is the most significant outcome.”
Coaches who coach Champions for Life see the members of their team as a three-part development project – persons, athletes and players. The development of the player is dependent upon the coach being able to look at the player and see the athlete - to visually and, sometimes literally, to take the ball, glove and bat out of their hands to evaluate the player’s ability to move and use their body in a coordinated, efficient and effective manner.
The coach’s ability to train the athlete will give the team member the greatest potential to be the best player. But before coaches can train the athlete and develop the player, they must relate to, connect with and validate the person so the person will trust the coaches enough to be willing to learn their lessons and adopt their philosophy.
Better People = Better Athletes = Better Players/Teammates = Champions for Life.
Therefore, every time a coach observes or interacts with a member of their team they must always be cognizant of this human trinity. Every response in a conversation and every cue and drill for athletic training and player development must consider and account for the uniqueness of the individual.
Elite coaches are at times, and sometimes simultaneously, parents, teachers, role models and psychologists. Their success on and off the field depends on them mastering these skills multiplied by the number of members on their team and in their program.
During a game, parents see their child, trainers see their athlete and average coaches see their player. Coaches of Champions for Life, at all times, see and account for all three.
For coaches to also win championships, they must have 180 degree vision. They must constantly have a singular focus on the immediate situation at hand while accounting for a myriad of possible contingencies that might develop.
The anticipation and reaction to and adjustments made must be both instinctive and inclusive of an awareness of the stadium, fans, players and coaches on both teams, officials, weather, field conditions and game situation. In baseball, this accounting can change with or during every pitch.
If you consider the factors for every team member as a person, athlete and player and multiply them by the factors to be considered while having 180 degree vision, the product is inconceivable - except to coaches of Champions for Life.
What goes through your mind before, during and after a batter hits a ground ball to shortstop?
Available now in Hardback, Paperback and eBook versions!
Coaches who coach Champions for Life see the members of their team as a three-part development project – persons, athletes and players. The development of the player is dependent upon the coach being able to look at the player and see the athlete - to visually and, sometimes literally, to take the ball, glove and bat out of their hands to evaluate the player’s ability to move and use their body in a coordinated, efficient and effective manner.
The coach’s ability to train the athlete will give the team member the greatest potential to be the best player. But before coaches can train the athlete and develop the player, they must relate to, connect with and validate the person so the person will trust the coaches enough to be willing to learn their lessons and adopt their philosophy.
Better People = Better Athletes = Better Players/Teammates = Champions for Life.
Therefore, every time a coach observes or interacts with a member of their team they must always be cognizant of this human trinity. Every response in a conversation and every cue and drill for athletic training and player development must consider and account for the uniqueness of the individual.
Elite coaches are at times, and sometimes simultaneously, parents, teachers, role models and psychologists. Their success on and off the field depends on them mastering these skills multiplied by the number of members on their team and in their program.
During a game, parents see their child, trainers see their athlete and average coaches see their player. Coaches of Champions for Life, at all times, see and account for all three.
For coaches to also win championships, they must have 180 degree vision. They must constantly have a singular focus on the immediate situation at hand while accounting for a myriad of possible contingencies that might develop.
The anticipation and reaction to and adjustments made must be both instinctive and inclusive of an awareness of the stadium, fans, players and coaches on both teams, officials, weather, field conditions and game situation. In baseball, this accounting can change with or during every pitch.
If you consider the factors for every team member as a person, athlete and player and multiply them by the factors to be considered while having 180 degree vision, the product is inconceivable - except to coaches of Champions for Life.
What goes through your mind before, during and after a batter hits a ground ball to shortstop?
Available now in Hardback, Paperback and eBook versions!
