Better Men, Better Ballplayers

Episode 111: Mike ”Kaz” Kazlausky - Air Force Academy

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Bio

  • Enters his 13th year as Air Force baseball head coach in 2023
  • Coach Kaz retired from active duty (20 years), effective June 1, 2011, and his interim tag was lifted to official head coach status.
  • A former player and Academy graduate, Kazlausky epitomizes what it means to don the Falcon baseball Blue and White.
  • In first year he lead the program to the most wins since 2002 and second-most in school history against Division I
  • Over 200 wins as Air Force's head man
  • In 2016 The Falcons posted a 30-27 record, the second most wins for anyone at Air Force
  • Six MLB Draft Picks
  • Five All-Americans
  • Three Freshman All-Americans 
  • All while leading young men to help better our country first and foremost. 
  • Inspiring leadership for “America’s Team”



    • Notes

    • You have to know your people
  • How are you going to be an effective leader if you don’t know your people?
  • What are my priorities in life?
  • How can I be an effective leader if I can’t be a good dad?
  • I want them to see me outside of a coach
  • How do you define winning?
  • How do you define success
  • Get off the scoreboard
    • They trust you more
  • Better relationship
  • Far outweighs the white lines
  • If i can’t be that person then i need to get out
  • We are making them war fighters! The mission is a little different here
  • We are here to serve and fight
  • Mission is fly fight and win!
  • We hold kids and coaches accountable
  • Tell them and show them how much I love and care about them
  • Take what i learned as a dad, husband, military background and teach it to everyone 
  • Mission has nothing to do with baseball
  • Set standards for your program
  • Its what our nation needs!
  • 1 rule - DO IT RIGHT!
  • Buy into our school, our military, and our program
  • Hold them to high expectations hold accountable to the standards
  • You learn so much from sports because you learn so much about yourself
  • You have an “opportunity” to come play baseball
  • Hold people accountable to the commitment or de-commitment
  • We don't play any home games, because we don’t fight any wars on our home turf!
  • I’m there dad
  • Its not war, its a game, we shake our hands after the game and go home
  • I don’t believe in switching the light switch, we want you always on! ATTACK!
  • Its a lifestyle
  • Lead by examples
  • You know your people
  • You take care of your people
  • You need to set goals for every kid in that program
  • Accountability and expectations are huge!
  • Don’t want people that settle. We want people to be excellent
  • We give our team leadership council (team of leaders for the team)
  • I want kids to make decisions
  • We put no limits, no boundaries on our kids
  • We love for our kids to fail. How are you going to be a better leader if you don’t know how to fail?
  • If we trained for it, prepped for it, had a routine then we will live with the result
  • MAD - Make a difference. As adults is to make a difference
  • Young people is about living your life with no regrets
  • Be the person you can be today!!!
  • Standards never sleep, and you are always on parade!!!
  • Winning is important, but how do you define it?
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