Timeout for Better Coaching

Steve Young


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Steve Young is the director of athletics for the City School District of New Rochelle, New York, and a co-founder of the innovative video series, InCourage

2:30 - Steve talks about the lessons his coaches and players have taken from the Covid crisis. 

5:40 - Are we in a "race to nowhere?" Steve reflects on the value of sports.

8:00 - Steve on the power of transformational coaching.

12:00 - Public schools need to do a better job of promoting the power of sports in public school, and find those metrics that speak to the power of sports in young people's lives.

15:30 - New Rochelle and the expansion of sports. Steve talks about the power of adding teams, and adding unconventional sports to keep kids involved. There's the struggle to create sports that don't have to cut.

18:00 - The possible role of intramural programs and afterschool programs in the high school space.

19:00 - Steve talks about the pressures that sports administrators face and what he wishes that coaches knew about their work.

22:30 - Steve talks about what he looks for when he is hiring a coach.

25:30 - Steve discusses the group InCourage.

30:30 - How should interscholastic sports and physical education classes interact?

38:20 - Steve and his passion for Boston sports.

 

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Timeout for Better CoachingBy Martin Davis