Coach 360

"School Pride" is a term often thrown around, but what does that mean? What does that look like in action and how do we as coaches build it?

In this episode with Coach Eli Brown, we hear of the STORIED Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And by storied, we mean 42 State Championships and 5 National Championships in 100 years of Boys Basketball... Coach Brown discusses how his team rehearses the history of the school along with its role in the community as a vehicle to win games and build the character of athletes within his program.

Key Takeaways: - You can't control when an opportunity will come, but you can be ready when it does. - What does it mean for your athletes to be good stewards of the program? - The platform of a coach is bigger than we sometimes believe. How do we use it to foster respect in our communities?

Coach Brown can be found on twitter @CoachEliKBrown3

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.

Any athletic program needs a solid foundation in relationships. Relationships between athletes and coaches, as well as between the school and the community. Relationships are about getting to know each other and spending time together. Relationships are about caring for each other beyond what we can get out of the other person. In this episode, Coach Ruben Garcia offers down-to-earth advice for coaches about relationships, teaching athletes and assistant coaches to be leaders, and sticking to your guns.

Key Takeaways: -Relationship should be a program's foundation. -Everybody has a story; it's up to the individual to make it a successful one. -Teach your athletes and assistant coaches how to be leaders.

To learn more about the 2Word Character Development curriculum email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.

Relationships are built on trust. If our athletes don't trust us, then we won't be able to build strong relationships with them. Without strong relationships, we can't help them become the best young men and women they can be. We can't just tell our athletes that they can trust us because trust is built slowly over time by both our words and our actions. In this episode, Coach Brandon Hankins tells us how to show athletes that they can trust us so that we can help them reach their full potential.

Key Takeaways: -Don't tell your athletes they can trust you; show them. -Be involved in the community you live in. -Always be loyal and treat people right.

To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website, www.2words.tv/gameplan.

Being a coach isn't about you. It's not about your success; it's about the students' success. How our your athletes successful? How are you helping them to be ever more successful? Ensuring the success of others is what coaching is all about. In this episode, Coach Seth Stinton reminds us that coaching is never about us. Instead, it's about the kids and the journey we get to take them on.

Key Takeaways: -Be positive and support others. -Loyalty is doing what's in the best interest of others. -It's never about us; it's about the kids and the journey you take with them.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.

This week, Mackey talks with retiring US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ingebrigt A.L. "Andy" Riise. Andy is a Mental Performance Coach, Consultant, Speaker, and Author who passionate is helping individuals, leaders, and teams get better at what they do. A West Point graduate and former Army Football player, he had a decorated 20 year career, leading soldiers in a variety of austere missions highlighted by three combat deployments, strategic missions on four continents, and five years in two elite Special Forces units. They talk football, the importance of coaches, and Andy's new book, Deliberate Discomfort: How US Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable. As if all that wasn't enough, Andy is also a key leader at the Texas A&M Coaching Academy and instrumental in the Veterans to Coaching program.

Most students dislike tests. But tests are valuable and even necessary because they allow us to see where we stand. When we know where we are, then we can figure out how to get where we want to be. In this episode, Mackey explains the value of testing our athletes so they (and we) know where they are--not to judge or label, but to help them move forward to reach their full potential.

Key Takeaways -The value of a test is that we see where we are. -When we see where we are, we can see the path forward. -We must continually test ourselves to come to grips with the truth of where we are.

Does winning in sports really matter? Yes, it does. But perhaps not for the reasons that we immediately think of. The value of winning isn't in beating another person, and it's not in the accolades that come from a win. The true value of winning is in how it pushes us to prepare and compete to our greatest ability. In this way, winning in sports teaches us to win in life. In this episode, Mackey breaks down the value of winning and why the most successful people learn how to win well.

Key Takeaways -The most successful people are the ones who can take things going wrong and make them right. -The value of winning in athletics is how it teaches us to win in life. -We must learn to value the process over the results.

The main reason given for not establishing character development as a routine part of an athletic program is lack of time. But here's the truth about time: We make time for what we value. If we "don't have time" for character development, it's because we don't value it enough.

In this episode, Mackey explains that we have to take control of making time for the things that we value. We are responsible for making things like character development a priority and organizing our time accordingly.

Key Takeaways

-It's not about the amount of time you spend on character development; it's about the quality and intentionality of that time. -If we don't audit our time, we're likely wasting our time. -Don't let what you cannot control keep you from controlling what you can.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan

The most dangerous racism is implicit racism, the kind that we think we've already dealt with when we haven't. We can't fight racism like this in the world until we deal with that racism in ourselves. That means we have to call right, right and wrong, wrong. We've got to prepare to face racism, to protect each other from its effects, to protest until peace is found, and to press on to the end. Those are the 4 Ps of racism, and in this episode of Coach360, Mackey dives in on how we can use each of them to fight racism.

Key Takeaways: -You can't change racism in the world until you deal with the racism in you. -The product of protest will be peace. -Call right, right and wrong, wrong.

Coaches are important figures in the lives of young adults everywhere. To be a great coach requires passion. It requires an eagerness for more truth, more knowledge, and ever greater improvement. Being a coach is a tough but rewarding job, and we could all use additional resources to help us become the best coaches that we can be. In this episode, Coach360 speaks with Dr. John Thornton of the Coaching Academy at Texas A&M University, which is built for the prospective coach or current coach, regardless of experience level.

Key Takeaways: -We don't know what we don't know. -The intelligent person is eager for more truth. -You have to be passionate to be a coach.

If you want to learn more about the Coaching Academy and the resources they provide, please visit www.coachingacademy.tamu.edu or email [email protected].