“We can count how many seeds are in the apple. But not how many apples are in the seed.” Read More »
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Read More »
I love coaching. In fact, over 40 years ago I loved it so much that I decided to make it my life’s profession. …and I’m excited to say that I’m still coaching.
The Call to Coaching Read More »
In most athletics programs, fund raising to supplement budgets is becoming much more important. Successful athletics programs and teams are becoming increasingly tied to the coaches and/or athletic director’s ability to generate funds from other sources. This course offers the athletics coach and/or athletic administrator the opportunity to learn and apply actual fund-raising and marketing plans for your program.
ATH 900 – Successful Fund Raising for Athletics Read More »
Any coach or athlete who achieves success in competitive sport does so because of a high level of mastery in the mental aspects of performance. Fundamental to all behavior is the understanding of motivation. All learning and improvement is tied to the psychological dimension of motivation. This course offers the opportunity to learn and apply correct psychological principles for enhancing motivation within the competitive sport context.
ATH 901 – Coaching: Enhancing Motivation Read More »
Important to athletic success is the development of leadership and team cohesion. Leadership, defined, is simply behavior that influences. Everyone on a team is, in some way, a leader. Successful coaches know how to develop a team culture of leadership that results in greater individual and team success. This course provides an applied overview of effective leadership and how to develop of team cohesion within an athletic context.
ATH 903 – Coaching: Leadership and Team Cohesion Read More »
This course is designed to encourage the coach to think about the various elements of successful coaching beyond simply the skill requirements of their respective sport. The ability to successfully organize, lead, motivate, relate, and evaluate is foundational to the coach within the profession. The purpose of this course is to assist the coach in their professional development relative to the overall requirements necessary for the coaching profession.
ATH 904 – Coaching: General Principles (HKCE) Read More »
This course focuses on the important areas of character development, moral reasoning, and ethical issues typically found in sport. The course activities include interactions with other successful coaches, interviews, readings, and personal reflection. There are practical experiences designed specifically for your student-athletes. This course provides practical experiences for the coach and athlete to think more deeply about moral character, ethical issues, and dilemmas encountered in our competitive world.
ATH 905 – Coaching: Teaching Character Read More »
This course is designed to encourage the coach to think about the issues and facts that surround the usages of performance-enhancing supplements typically encountered by the coach in our athletically competitive world. The National Standards for Sport Coaches (NSSC) as part of the NASPE national standards calls for coaches to be knowledgeable in the area of performance-enhancing substances. Course activities include coaches interviews, readings, personal reflection, observations, and guided evaluation through practical experiences with current student-athletes or coaches.
ATH 907 – Coaching: Drugs in Sport Read More »
This course is designed to encourage the coach to examine gender differences and stereotypes that are typically encountered by coaches as they coach female athletes in our competitive world. The activities of this course are designed to better acquaint and refine the coach’s understandings of the current athletic environment relative to the female athletes. Activities such as coach’s interviews, readings, a focused web search, observations, and guided evaluation through practical experiences with current coaches and/or female student-athletes are part of the course.
ATH 908 – Coaching: The Female Athlete Read More »