Every Coach Needs A Coach

Every Coach Needs A Coach

By Coach KelliSports
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Every Coach Needs A Coach episodes

  • 281 - poor audio
    My priority shift during soccer, and this podcast tends to take a backseat. For consistency sake, for my sake, and for your sake, I will continue to record episodes every day, but forgive me for the lack of introduction and outro, music, and lower quality audio.
    3 min
  • 278- Names
    The sweetest sound to Any person in any language is the sound of their own name. Challenge you to learn a new name today, and use it.
    5 min
  • 276- Hudl Stats
    Video analysis of our games just for a few days has increased our kids engagement, and understanding of tactics and strategies. Add another layer to our culture and language
    5 min
  • 275 advice to yourself
    If you could go back and give yourself advice during your freshman year of high school, what would you say? My bet is that you should still follow this advice to this day
    3 min
  • 274- Appreciation Wednesday
    I have implemented appreciation Wednesday with our team this year, where every Wednesday we call someone we love and tell them we appreciate them. It’s been tremendously powerful. I challenge you to make it your own and implement it with your team
    3 min
  • 272 - Speed Mentoring

    Lead Em Up exericse- speed mentoring. 

    Our big takeaway from our seniors was to stop caring what anyone thinks of you. That was a great lesson for our freshmen to hear and great for me to be reminded . 

    5 min
  • 271- Let them go play


    I had the opportunity to give a talk to our youth recreation coaches in town. They have to go through a safety training, and as a physical therapist, I'm qualified to offer that to them. It helps that I coach high school soccer, and can offer them safety tips on things to look out for as far as injuries and field conditions.

    I managed to show them a handful of drills, reminding them that they can be adjusted to the level that they're coaching, these coaches were first through eighth grade coaches. One of them at the end asked me about the play practice play model, which I'm a little embarrassed to admit, I have no idea what that is. I asked him to explain it, and he said it's the European model that's changing now, into eliminating the word "drill "and letting the kids just go play.

    As soon as he said ‘let the kids just go play’, i smiled. I let the room breath for a second, and then said ‘huh. Imagine that? The kids just get to play without grown ups interfering ? stopping drills every 15 seconds? Instructing at every single mistake?

    YES. LET THEM GO PLAY!

    IT REMINDED ME OF TWO TWEETS THAT I SAW WHILE BACK. ONE SAID, WHEN PLANNING YOUR PRACTICE, ASK WHAT HAPPENS IN A GAME? THEN DO THAT. THE OTHER SAID, TAKE YOUR PRACTICE PLAN, AND CUT IT IN HALF. SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WORK ON THE THINGS THAT YOU REALLY HAVE TO WORK ON. OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS AS A HEAD COACH, MY PRACTICE PLANS HAVE GOTTEN SMALLER, AND MORE FOCUSED. MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE I HAVE LESS TO PROVE NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH WANTING MY PLAYERS TO HAVE THE MOST FUN AND GET THE MOST OUT OF THEMSELVES DURING OUR  PRACTICES.

    5 min

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A podcast for athletic coaches of all levels and sports to learn from coaches who they may otherwise never have the chance to meet.