Whatever sport you coach, building a successful sports program can be
an enormous, sometimes daunting, task filled with many responsibilities
and demands. Questions and decisions wait around every corner, often
pulling a coach away from long-term considerations. How can you build a
program when daily challenges require your attention?
In reality, those daily challenges form some of the building blocks and
foundations to any program. As a coach, you have the opportunity every
day to showcase your critical thinking, creativity, player-management
skills, philosophy, integrity, and character with every decision you
make.
In "Building a Successful High School Sports Program", former High
School Soccer Coach DeAngelo Wiser addresses the fundamentals of
building a successful High School program. He covers numerous topic
areas including how to choose team players, bringing them together,
managing expectations, how to define success, working with
administrators and colleagues, tracking progress, dealing with personal
adversity, and much more.
The book also includes contributions from a dozen highly successful High
School coaches and Athletic Directors who offer decades of real-world
wisdom and high-value advice. The book's foreword is by one of the
world's leading and most recognizable Sport Psychologists - Bill
Beswick.
Whether you coach football, tennis, soccer, baseball, basketball,
volleyball, swimming, track & field, or any other High School sport, by
the end of the book, you will learn:
- how to build a winning program
- how to properly integrate philosophies and principles into your work
- how to keep track of success and document the essentials
- how to sell your program and create outside buy-in
- how to create a cohesive team and sporting environment
- how to create a team underpinned with character and integrity
- how to manage players and yourself when times get tough
Building a successful program takes patience and determination, but is a
journey you'll never forget.
Contributors: Bill Beswick, Molly Grishman, Dave Barney, Jody
Hamilton, Jean Kesterson, Aaron Ocampo, Mike Bowlin, Karen Vanover, Cy
Tucker, Bob Koski, Daniel Sandlin, and Kevin Wright.
