Meg and Dr. G interview the University of Denver’s head Men’s Lacrosse coach, Bill Tierney. Coach Tierney’s lifetime accomplishments include thirty-six years of coaching, seven national championships, twenty-seven regular season and conference tournament championships, and being the second coach to achieve over 400 wins as a coach. Additionally, took the Johns Hopkins Men’s Soccer team, who previously had one winning year of the past thirty, to the NCAA championship in 1986 with no prior experience coaching or playing soccer.

In this episode, Coach Tierney discusses the relationship between teaching and coaching and how his background as a K-12 Physical Education teacher impacted his coaching style. He discusses his experience coaching football, soccer, and lacrosse, and how he has collaborated with his students and athletes over the years. Dr. G asks Coach Tierney about the differences he noticed between coaching football and lacrosse, and Meg wonders about how he stays at the top after all these years.

Coach Tierney speaks about his lifetime in coaching, insights into coaching and teaching strategies, and how he advocates for and encourages his athletes to become educated and defines quality coaching. He discusses what it was like to win the National Championship in 2001 with both of his sons playing on the field, and what it was like to be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame shortly after. He further discusses what “family” can mean within the context of a team sport, and shares some of his go-to personal mantras. Coach Tierney also describes his four pillars of success, and how to remain humble after so many winning seasons. 

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The baseline is on the basketball court, but the baseline to become a coach is virtually non-existent. Should we license sport coaches? Meg and Dr. G continue their discussion on sport coaching as a profession and contrast it with related jobs. Tune in to hear about how athletic training, physical therapy, and sport medicine have become regulated professions whereas sport coaching has not. 

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What ever happened to the teacher-coach?

Requirements to coach often include just a background check and a 1-2 hour course on the fundamentals of coaching

Reconciling the free market, regulation, and sport coach preparation and coaching as a profession. 

Sports medicine, allied health, physical education, exercise science, sport science, physical cultural studies 

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Meg and Dr. G interview Mr. Patrick Ruff, the Head of School at Woodside Priory High School in California. Mr. Ruff explains his views on quality coaching and how he’s learned to find it in the coaches he hires. He also explains what good coaching does for his students and how he developed his passion as a sport leaders. Tune into Part 2 of this interview with Mr. Patrick Ruff for more information about his experience in high school coaching, its impacts, and what he looks for in the coach selection process.

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• How should we define quality coaching?

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Meg and Dr. G argue that sport coaching is not a profession. Although coaches and sport commentators like to think coaching is a profession and we even have ‘professional’ sports, when you look at common standards for a profession, coaching falls short. Tune in to hear why sport coaching does not meet the standard to be called a profession, and Meg drops some bad jokes such as calling coaches arm-candy. 

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• What’s a professional athlete vs professional coach vs a profession. 

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Today on Sideline, Meg and Dr. G chat with Mr. Karlton Creech, the University of Denver’s Vice Chancellor of Athletics & Recreation. Karlton shares his career development and work in sports administration that led him to his position today. He provides a ton of insight on intercollegiate philanthropy and fundraising and an overview of what he has accomplished in his career, from ticket sales to organizational planning. Dr. G, Meg, and Karlton discuss essential sport topics such as team culture and personal leadership, as well as leading and coaching online during COVID19. Tune in to learn more about personal branding and entering the athletics industry from an industry insider.

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• Personal branding and leadership

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Meg and Dr. G discuss sport parenting and take a trip down the memory lane of their own experiences as athletes, coaches, and sport parents. Tune in to hear how Meg’s mom dressed up in the stands to hide from Meg during one of her tennis matches! Meanwhile, Dr. G discusses how a U7 soccer kid started crying in the middle of a match.

Dr. G identifies how our schooling system doesn’t prepare sport parents and how this can result in youth athletes experiencing anxiety or dropping out from sport. Learn how to calm a child down during a game when the pressure from parents becomes too much. Explore the connections between how to encourage, without forcing, your child to benefit from sport participation. 

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• “no long lines” 

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In this episode of Sideline, Meg and Dr. G welcome award-winning sport sociologist Dr. Jay Coakley,  Professor Emeritus (i.e., retired with achievement) at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Dr. Coakley is the author of the textbook Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies, which is thought to be the most widely used sport sociology book in the world. Jay provides insight on the top social issues in sports and how this changes the industry for all types of sport workers, and American culture as a whole.

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• -explains some of the systemic and community-based programs that are affected by socioeconomic status and implicit biases.

Jay concludes with a story, about being coached by Joe B. Hall, who would go on to become a NCAA Division I national champion coach at the University of Kentucky. 

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• Lifetime fitness and physical literacy

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In a battle between sport news versus sport knowledge, our co-hosts Meg and Dr. G, dive straight into a contemporary investigation of sport with a chorus of sport knowledge nuggets. Meg and Dr. G have fun with quick hitting analyses of what’s going on in the world of sport as it happens today. While the mainstream news creates spectacle and nonsense, Meg and Dr. G go one on one making sense of sport news and how we can all do better. With their patented blend of uniting research and practice with humor and values, Meg and Dr. G tackle, “Why is knowledge important in sport?” 

SPKN is not your introductory course or recycled content. we take the next step in sport education with a values-driven and research based understanding of sport. We are dedicated to reveal the processes, relationships, and effects on the most interesting issues of our day. 

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