Making The Play with Dave Briglio

This week my guest is Charlotte Morley, Program Director for Harlem Lacrosse, at the Promise Academy 2. Harlem Lacrosse’s mission is to empower children at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges and reach their full potential.
Harlem Lacrosse provides school-based, full-day, year-round support by placing a full-time staff member at school sites. Their Program Directors maintain a constant presence in the lives of the students as tutors, mentors, and coaches who provide individualized attention. Their programming empowers students to set high expectations for themselves, achieve their goals and break the cycle of poverty by providing daily study halls, mentoring, push-in academic support, experiential & service-learning, and character-building lacrosse instruction.
Lacrosse is at the heart of a “college-going culture” and holistic approach to developing the social emotional skill sets of children. Lacrosse’s team culture, perseverance, grit, and confidence translates directly into the classroom and students’ personal lives. Harlem Lacrosse now serves over 850 students nationwide across nineteen programs in five cities (NYC, Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles & Philadelphia).

Harlem Lacrosse students have maintained a 100% on-time middle school graduation rate, have passed their classes at a rate 20% higher than their peers at school sites, and have earned over $15 million scholarship offers to independent schools and colleges, including: Bates College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Gettysburg College, Haverford College, Hobart College, Tufts University, the University of Virginia, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

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About Charlotte: Charlotte Morley attended Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. After graduating in 2013, she went on to play Division 1 lacrosse at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Charlotte started at Harlem Lacrosse in fall of 2017. Charlotte’s favorite part about working at Harlem Lacrosse is getting to share her love for the game with everyone!
In this episode you’ll hear:
•The amazing results from school-based support, with a “wrap-around” daily presence.
•How to create a “College Going Culture”

•Success stories of at-risk students who learned to believe in “Aiming High”.

Jessy Morgan: Opening Doors For Others
This week my guest will be Jessy Morgan: Head Coach of the George Mason University women’s lacrosse team, former All-American at the University of Virginia, and former member of the U.S. Developmental Team. Jessy has a strong commitment to opening doors for others: “Growing the game remains important to me, because I was the recipient of opportunities through lacrosse.”

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Head coach Jessy Morgan enters her fourth season at the helm of the George Mason lacrosse program. The former Virginia All-American and assistant coach has turned the Patriots into a contender in the Atlantic 10 Conference. As a student-athlete, Morgan helped Virginia advance to the NCAA Championship three times and win the 2004 NCAA Championship. Additionally, Jessy was the US Team selector for the 2012 gold medal team; was recently inducted into the McDonogh School Hall of Fame in 2014
Jessy, a Baltimore native, began her collegiate coaching career in 2009 at Howard University where she was the head coach for the Bison for two seasons. On the national scene, Jessy was a two-time USA Developmental Team member and was voted the eighth-best African-American lacrosse player of all-time by Lacrosse Magazine in 2010. She conducts summer girls lacrosse camps in non-traditional lacrosse areas all over the country and serves as the director of the National Lacrosse Organization Lacrosse Club for girls.
Jessy earned her bachelor's degree in English from Virginia in 2007 and earned her master's degree in business administration in 2017.

In this episode you’ll hear:
•Jessy’s journey from player to coach, to revitalizing communities
•The importance of coaches opening doors for players

•The state of race in lacrosse

This week my guest will be Scott Cvetkovski, Founder of Positive Sports Leadership, as we continue our focus on INFLUENCE. Scott focuses on where passion and inspiration create influence, and he has dedicated his life to answering one question everyday, "how can I positively influence the lives of others?" That question is the driving force for all the work he does. If you want to lead, you must create a positive influence on others – listen in and make the change you want to see in the world.

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Positive Sports Leadership is an emotional intelligence and leadership development company that focuses on the athletes and athletic programs such as clubs, schools, and colleges. Positive Sports Leadership offers leadership workshops and seminars for organizations that are looking to enhance leadership within their programs. With an emphasis on Emotional Intelligence, Positive Sports Leadership brings a dynamic view and learning system that truly enhances the leaders capabilities to become successful.
About Scott: Scott has been involved in business, leadership, and education his entire life. As a product of his parents, both educators and entrepreneurs, Scott’s heart is on path with the training and development of others to benefit individuals and their organizations. His love for leadership and business lead him to develop the Sports Leadership Guide for athletic captains and aspiring leaders in the world of athletics. This leadership guide acts as a resource for captains to learn from and refer to as they take on the role of a leader on their respective teams.
Scott’s love of leadership and helping others inspired him to develop presentations and workshops to continue to be a positive influence to those who wish to lead their programs and people to success. With this knowledge, Scott recognized the need for Emotional Intelligence inside the athletic world, corporate world, and education sector and became a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach to create another crucial workshop and assessment to help others achieve greatness within their organizations.

In this episode you’ll hear:
•Programs to develop TRUE leadership
•The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Sports
•How to use Karate in the workplace (for Team Building) – Seriously...

This week my guest will be Molly Grisham, Owner and Lead Facilitator of Influence, LLC. Molly is passionate about personal growth, leadership development, communication, problem-solving, service learning, and conflict resolution. She is a visionary with a heart for developing cultures and leaders who are value driven, people-centric and service oriented. We’ll talk about how influence is the hallmark of a leader, how best to develop and how to use it – for ourselves and for others.

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About Molly: She previously served as a college soccer coach and has been employed as a teacher/professor and has served on the communication staff for several non-profit organizations. Molly has 20 years experience coaching club, high school and college soccer coach. She has served on the coaching staff at Ottawa University, Wayne State College and at the University of Illinois Springfield. In addition to coaching she spent many years in the classroom teaching communication courses at the college level. Her teaching and coaching combination is a great asset in developing people in a variety of settings

In this episode you’ll hear:
•What “good” influence is, and the impostors to look out for.
•How to have a “Good Battle” and the value of “Tiny Wins”
•Working with introverts, those younger, and men/women.

Missy West: Inspire, Motivate & Discover Your Best Self
This week my guest will be Missy West, former college coach, inductee to the High School Hall of Fame, and now a motivational speaker, whose athletic participation has strongly influenced the development of life long skills that still remain within her to this day. Sports has built confidence within her as a woman, gave her career opportunities, and an environment filled with amazing, hard-working, and successful people to this day. We’ll talk about how sports gives us a voice to follow your passion to serve people, to educate and inspire our youth, our parents, and coaches.
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About Missy: Missy coached basketball at the college level for 12 years both at the Division II and Division III levels & received 3 conference coach of the year honors and was nominated for National Coach of the Year in 2013. Her teams have broken numerous school records, participated in conference championships and the NCAA's.
Her passion for sports began at a very young age in upstate NY, where football and Ice hockey became her first two loves. With her father being a high school football, swimming, golf and softball coach, she was around sports all the time and loved being active and involved with teams. Missy became Miss New York State in Basketball and Softball while also being an All-State 1st team selection for Soccer. Following High School, Missy had a successful college career at Duke University where she was able to participate in 2 ACC Conference Championships, 5 NCAA tournaments and the National Championship in 1999. Following her stint at Duke, Missy played professionally in Germany for three seasons winning a German National Championship. She also coached a youth 12 year-old team where they too won a German National Championship. Most recently Missy was inducted into the New York State High School Hall of Fame (with Jim Brown) and the National High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
In this episode you’ll hear:
•How sports helps us through the awkward teenage years, shaping us for Life
•Why high school sports is a laboratory where we learn how to fail
•How to create a personal Action Plan & get aligned with your priorities

This week my guest will be Glen Mulcahy of Paradigm Sports with a mission to help parents, youth sports coaches and executive members understand the issues in youth sports - and do what we can do to fix them, so we can bring the game back to the kids … where it belongs. To do that, Glen and his group educate coaches, parents and administrators through workshops, presentations and online resources to help keep kids involved in sport well into their adulthood by Developing Leaders
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About Glen: Glen has a knack for seamlessly backing up key concepts with relevant anecdotes and research. You will find Glen’s ideas on ‘kids in sports’ are not only thought provoking, but enjoyable as he communicates with a great sense of passion and humor. His lifetime of multi-sport experience and uncanny ability to connect with his audience & draw them into his story makes Glen a passionate down-to-earth man that is driven to prevent youth from dropping out of organized sports. Glen’s belief in focusing on the fundamentals of the game rather than current game-centric and winning at all costs is both refreshing and inspiring. Now with two youth athletes of his own, Glen is determined to bring the game back to the kids and inspire youth to stay involved in sports not just during teen years, but throughout adulthood as well.
In this episode you’ll hear:
•The pros and cons of excellence v. specialization
•The different communication methods for boys, girls…and millennials
•How not to be a kids’ last coach

Jeanna Finamore returns as this week’s guest, helping us kick off National Mentoring Month. Jeanna is the Executive Director of MentorPrize, a coalition of like-minded individuals and institutions committed to fostering mentoring relationships that are rewarding for the mentee, the mentor and our communities. At MentorPrize, they believe positively influencing the life of another can be a gratifying experience, one that offers the opportunity for the kind of meaningful personal connections that lead to a more empathetic society. And the best part is — You don’t need money, connections or a fancy education to be a mentor. Many of us possess the skills needed to empower, guide, and comfort others if we’re willing to take the time to make rewarding connections.
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In this episode, you’ll hear…
•MentorPrize’s role in connecting prospective mentors with mentoring organizations, to transform the lives of youth and young adults
•About National Mentoring Month, and how you can get involved
•Personal stories of rewarding mentoring experiences

This week I will be speaking with Sarbjit “Sab” Singh, Founder of Sports Doing Good, I’ve loved their mission to gather and promote the best stories in Sports – no statistics or highlight reels, just Sports Doing Good. Plan to tune in and look forward to remembering and getting back to Why We PLAY.

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Sports Doing Good, a property of The Kaur Group, is built on the idea of sports being fun, inspirational and being a tool for positive social change. The concept and practice of corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship are now rooted firmly in the mindset and actions of thousands of individuals, companies and organizations around the globe. Their website is part of a movement to both drive the growth of and highlight the good work already being done by those in and around sports.

Their goal is to have Sports Doing Good be a portal housing original content and excerpts from and links to the increasing number of articles, websites, video, and other sources that showcase the good in sports and and its relation to social responsibility. They aim to celebrate those concepts, activities, events, and individuals by highlighting them for a wider audience. Much of the news today, whether sports related or not, is incredibly negative and increasingly polarized, biased, and quite annoying. At SDG, they are trying to refocus some of the discussion on the good related to the world of sports.

About Sab: He was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Rockville Centre on Long Island, played soccer here and there (still does). He graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a BSBA in Finance and earned MBA and JD degrees from Emory University. Sab is a proud and active alum of all three institutions. He is an experienced business strategy and market research professional. He’s taught entrepreneurship and business planning in the sports management program at NYU’s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management. And at St. John’s University he taught “Philosophy, Principles, and Organization of Sport Management”.

In this episode, you’ll hear…
•The need to bring sports, social responsibility and development together
•The use of sports to improve our lives and the lives of individuals and communities worldwide.
•Some amazing stories of sports organizations that are “Doing Good”

This week I will be speaking with Michael Bungay Stanier, Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, and Author of “The Coaching Habit” and “Do More Great Work”. I’ve loved the book and look forward to the “thought for the day” I get every morning from Box of Crayons. No matter what you do (sports, school or career), you’ll find their ideas easy and helpful. In this episode, we’ll talk about just what his 2 books say – how to do more great work by developing a coaching habit.
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At Box of Crayons, Michael and his team of facilitators teach 10-minute coaching They don’t offer a thousand shades of leadership and an endless variety of programs. Instead, they’ve chosen instead to focus on one thing and do it really well. They teach 10-minute coaching so your managers build stronger teams and get better results Our simple goal is to have the very best coaching program there is. At Box Of Crayons, they want to be a strategic contributor, partnering with their clients to find the bigger game, and to make sure that what they offer best contributes to that.
About Michael: Balancing out these moments of success, Michael was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident”, was sued by one of his Law School lecturers for defamation, and his first published piece of writing was a Mills & Boone short story called “The Male Delivery.” Michael left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian, which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston. He was the first Canadian Coach of the Year.
In this episode, you’ll hear…
•How to avoid fighting reality, and get the behaviour change you want and need.
•The importance of finding (or providing) training that doesn’t feel like training.
•How to obliterate the learning curve

This week I will be speaking with Sally Ann Reiss, CEO of PlayyOn. PlayyOn’s founders were concerned with the declining sports participation rates in both youth and adults. Knowing that participating in sports and recreation is important for both physical and mental reasons they set out to improve the organized sports industry.

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PlayyOn is made up of a group of athletes and coaches, passionate about promoting a lifelong love of sport and recreation activities. Their founding team participates in over 20 different sports! Though their choice of sport is diverse, they all share one thing in common: They Play Because They Love the Game!

“Sports has had a profound impact on all of our lives. We have learned to play as a team, learned to strive for our goals, and learned what resiliency is. We have learned the importance of dedication and self discipline…Most importantly, we believe that the best part of sport is experiencing the comaraderie you gain between you and your team - the unmatched feeling of connection and belonging.”

About Sally Ann: “I believe passionately in the power of sports as an important vehicle for learning and belonging. For the past 20 years, I have been involved in the founding of new ventures, with a passion for making a difference both at my job and in the world. My first experience with a new venture was a company called TiVo (pause live TV). I have been blessed to be involved with five others, including my current new venture called PlayyOn - Software Management Platform for Lifetime Participation in Sports and Fitness.”
In this episode, you’ll hear…
•Why DO we play sports?...The reasons have changed over the years, but more importantly, the reasons change at each stage of our lives.
•How the definition of success can cause people to stop playing the Game of Life, and how PlayyOn is going to bring us back to the real definition of success
•How to use sports to create a platform that creates connections and community