Courtside Culture

Courtside Culture

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Courtside Culture episodes

  • Whitney Frye - Director of USA Basketball’s Safe Sport Program

    Whitney Frye is the director of USA Basketball’s Safe Sport program.

    The Safe Sport initiative raises awareness about misconduct in sports. It also serves to promote open dialogue and provide training and resources to all participants of the game—players, parents, and coaches. Safe Sport aims to create a healthy and supportive environment with a focus on safety.

    In this episode she talks about her responsibilities, which include coordinating the background screening process, and serving as the primary liaison for youth coach license complaints and incidents. 

    She talks about the different resources that are available to coaches and parents. It all adds up to a great culture. 

    Twitter: @usabasketball 

    Facebook: USA Basketball

    Twitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21

    Twitter Courtside: @courtsidepod1 

    1 hr 4 min
  • George Panagiotou- Former Marine Who's Building Team Culture The Right Way
    George Panagiotou spent 14 years in the United States Marine Corps. He's been coaching soccer ever since he got out. He's taken a program that had one winning season in 20 years and turned it around. How? By rebuilding the culture off the field—first.
    Since the culture change, his teams have put together three consecutive 10 win seasons, won a sectional title, and earned two first-round byes.
    Plus, over the past five seasons, his teams have contributed over 3400 hours of community service, doing things like painting buildings, goal posts, and parking lots. Setting up and tearing down the youth field, summer camp coaching, and trash duty, On top of that, his players volunteer to lead study groups and boast a 3.7 team GPA.
    In this episode, Coach George has great advice for coaches looking to turn around their team culture, especially young coaches. We find out how he applies what he's learned in the Marines to coaching, and why he thinks developing relationships with your players is the most important part of coaching.
    Twitter
    @NRHSMensSoccer
    @nraslsoccer
    Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21
    Courtside: @courtsidepod1
    1 hr 6 min
  • Charron Sumler- Athletic Counselor With The Ohio State University
    Charron Sumler is an Athletic Counselor at the Ohio State University.
    Charron helps Ohio State's student-athletes in a number of different ways, including individual and group therapy as well as team presentations on topics related to mental health and wellness.
    Her experience is intriguing because she’s not only a former Division 2 basketball player at St. Edward’s University, but she works with athletes individually, and in team settings as well.
    Some of the things we discuss in this episode include:
    The need for athletic counseling
    Her conversation with Kevin Love
    How coaches can start taking steps to shift their culture for the better
    Twitter: @OSUSportPsych
    Instagram: @ohiostathletics
    Twitter: @OhioStAthletics
    Twitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21
    Twitter Courtside: @courtsidepod1
    58 min
  • Jordan Eaton: Mild-Mannered Coach Building A Winning Team Culture
    Coach Jordan Eaton has been the head coach of the Girls varsity basketball team at Olmsted Falls for 7 years now.
    This past season he won his 100th game and won another Southwestern Conference title. That makes three in a row now for the Lady Bulldogs and this year’s team also made it to regionals, as did his team in 2017.
    But his style is far from hard-nosed.
    In this episode, we talke about how such a mild-mannered, soft-spoken guy can put a team on the floor that ferocious on defense. He also explains how his team's culture was built, the mistakes he made as a young coach (and how he learned from them, and had one of the most interesting first jobs ever.
    School Website: https://www.ofcs.net/staff/950
    Twitter - @OFalls_Bulldogs
    Twitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21
    1 hr 2 min
  • Coach Jon Beck: Building Team Cultures One Tweet At a Time
    Coach Beck played four years of Division 1 college basketball at Arkansas State.
    He now offers individual, small group, and team training... as well as skills academies and team clinics for “Pure Sweat Basketball.”
    He also has one of the best basketball Twitter feeds going. His Twitter feed hits the mark every time for coaches, players, and parents. It ticks a lot of the boxes we’re trying to cover on this podcast.
    It's full of almost every message I am trying to send by doing this podcast.
    In this episode, we break down some of his most inspirational tweets. What they mean for coaches, players, and parents. And what we can learn from them.
    Twitter: @CoachJonBeck
    Twitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21
    Twitter Courtside: @courtsidepod1
    1 hr 12 min
  • Dr. Kris Eiring- Connecting the Dots Between Performance Psychology and Team Culture
    Dr. Kris Eiring is the former director of clinical and sport psychology for the University of Wisconsin Badgers. She helped to implement mental health and performance psychology services for Wisconsin’s athletes.
    And she speaks from experience because she is also a former University of Wisconsin track star, having been a part of four Big Ten outdoor conference championship teams and broke two Badger indoor records.
    She is now living her dream supporting athletes (and others) with their mental health needs, and not just in sports.
    In this episode of the Courtside Culture Podcast, Kris talks about:
    -The connection between the players mental health and team culture.
    -Whether coaches should come to understand that mental training or psychology is now as much a part of sports as layup drills or getting in the cage?
    -Off the court or off the field exercises coaches can do with their teams to not only improve everyone’s mental health, but improve team culture at the same time
    -And she is our first guest ever to combine "What's The Coolest?" and "First Things Last" because the coolest meet she ever ran is wear she got her first pair of track spikes... and it's one of the most famous basketball players of all time who gave them to her.
    Website: drkriseiring.us
    Twitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21
    Twitter Courtside: @courtsidepod1
    50 min
  • Mike D'Andrea, Former Ohio State Linebacker on Mental Training and Team Culture
    Mike D'Andrea is a former Ohio State football player who now owns T3 performance, the top training facility for athletes in Northeast Ohio.
    But a big part of athletic training at T3 is the mental aspect of the games we play and mike is here to talk about how important it is and how it plays a role in building a great team culture.
    The mental health of your players will go a long way to building good team cultures. You want to keep your players' psyche, or their mindset intact.
    The mentality of the players and the coaches go hand-in-hand to developing team culture.
    In this episode of the Courtside Culture Podcast, Mike answers questions like:
    What is mental training?
    Did he use mental training when he was playing football at Ohio State?
    What does mental training do for athletes?
    What does mental training do for team culture?
    Should coaches undergo mental training for themselves?
    Did Jim Tressel use mental training?
    Twitter
    T3 Performance: @T3Performance1
    Dave: @grizzer21
    Courtside: @courtsidepod1
    48 min
  • Jamy Bechler, It's Not Just About the X's and O's When It Comes to Building A Winning Culture
    Jamy Bechler is not only the host of the “Success Is a Choice” podcast, but he is also a professional speaker, leadership trainer and executive business coach who works with teams ranging from major corporations to the NBA.
    He’s been a player; he’s been a coach and an administrator on the high school and college level... and now he combines his unique experiences to take teams and their leaders to the next level.
    In this episode of the Courtside Culture Podcast, Jamy talks about:
    How coaches can build a better team culture?
    How to find roles for all of your players.
    The importance of off-the-court experiences teams share that build trust among players.
    The three most important pieces of any team culture.
    The Athletic Director's role in building team culture.
    And the coolest place he ever did a clinic. It's a good one.
    Twitter – @CoachBechler
    Facebook – JamyBechlerLeadership
    Instagram – @CoachBechler
    Linkedin – JamyBechler
    Pinterest – JamyBechler
    Twitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21
    Twitter Courtside: @courtsidepod1
    51 min
  • Leslie Ungar, Communication Expert, How Coaches Can Use "Horse Talk" To Better Communicate with Their Players
    Leslie Ungar is an executive coach, speaker, and speechwriter, in other word— a communications expert. She empowers her clients to communicate with confidence, and part of her job is talking to basketball coaches. She also just wrote a new book called “Horse Talk” coaches can learn from. She lays out the "Three V's" and why they are critical for coaches and managers to know. Not only will they make you a better communicator, but the "Three V's" will make you a better leader as well.
    She explains how better communication makes for better leaders and builds team culture.
    Instagram: @electric_impulse
    Facebook: Leslie Ungar
    Web: https://www.electricimpulse.com/
    Twitter Dave: @grizzer21
    58 min

About Courtside Culture

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Host Dave Grendzynski is a firm believer in positive psychology, especially when it comes to building a high school basketball program. When coaches provide a positive pathway for their players and parents, they’ll start building a good team culture and the wins will take care of themselves.