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Coaching Athletes. Matt Dube Orono/Veazie A’s Little League Baseball Solon Bobcats Little League Baseball Dorothea Dix Special Olympics Soccer. What you will experience today. My experience Some coaching trivia Exercises pertaining to being a coach
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Coaching Athletes Matt Dube Orono/Veazie A’s Little League Baseball Solon Bobcats Little League Baseball Dorothea Dix Special Olympics Soccer
What you will experience today • My experience • Some coaching trivia • Exercises pertaining to being a coach • Show a few quotes from coaches and athletes
What: What are the Rules?Who: EveryoneLength: 3 Minutes Exercise 1
What: The Coaching AlphabetWho: Groups of 4Length: 6 Minutes Exercise 2
Ambient • Believable • Constructive • Discipline • Empathetic • Fair • Goals • Honest • Inspiring • Journey • Knowledgeable • Listener • Motivator • Names • Original • Process • Questions • Rhetoric • Struggled • Teacher • Unsatisfied • Values • Willing • Xenophobic • Yearning • Zeal
Exercise 2 Debrief • Any common themes between groups? • Any interesting traits people thought of? • Whose group had the best coach in your opinion (before we talk about it at all)?
In General: • One of the two or three best experiences of my life • One of the most difficult things you can possibly do • Best crash course in leadership I ever took
One of the best experiences of my life • I only have mental images unfortunately • But that won’t stop me • Teaching and motivating is fun • You get people to pick up their spares • They learn how to strike the soccer ball properly • They learn how to field with a piece of wood • You teach them how to win
What: A Simple TestWho: 1 Person (not Julia)Length: As long as it takes Exercise 3
Exercise 3 Debrief • Was it funny to watch? • What did I do effectively? • What could I have done better to help the participant?
One of the most difficult tasks out there • I enjoy challenges (remember the brick walls) • I am a proud member of the Autism spectrum • Social things are difficult for me • I can be less than understanding of people’s plights • I make connections far quicker than most people
One of the most difficult tasks out there • Need to build the social framework for teamwork • Outgoing • Understanding of people’s struggles • Empathy • As minimally abraisive as possible • Critical • Helping people build the patterns • Detail-Orientation and Global View
Best crash course in leadership • Other than this one (shameless plug!) • I had to: • Plan practices (physically and pedagogically) • Develop teams (parent/child and the athletes) • Communicate (parents and athletes) • Teach (parent and athletes) • Be vulnerable (parent and athletes) • Support/mentor (athletes and staff) • Be creative (pedagogically and scheduling)
Question 1: • Known as the Wizard of Westwood • Developed the Pyramid of Success • Won 11 Consecutive NCAA Basketball Championships • Coached at the University of California – Los Angeles • His name is John R. Wooden
Question 2: • Won three championship games in four years • Did it with a relative bunch of no-names • Stopped the best offense the world had ever seen in his sport at the time • Father coached at the Naval Academy • His name is Bill Belichick
Question 3: • Fathered a collegiate sports program • Won two national titles in that sport in the first 20 years of the program • Best record ever in a single season in that sport • Lost his battle with cancer • Hangs in the Alfond rafters • His name is Shawn Walsh
The same things win. It doesn’t matter where you coach them. The game is the same. • Mike DuBose
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you. • John Wooden
Overcoaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. • Dean Smith
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. • Don Shula
Life’s battles don’t always go to the faster or stronger. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. • Vince Lombardi
You are never a loser until you quit trying. • Mike Ditka
It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it. • Lou Holtz
There is no need for me continuing unless I’m able to improve. • Knute Rockne
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said of course not. Well, I think you stink. He then gave me a technical. You can’t trust them. • Jim Valvano
It’s so hard when you have to, but it’s so easy when you want to. • Unknown
Your heart has to be in whatever you lead. It became apparent that this decision was somewhat easier to make because you have to follow your heart and lead with it. • Mike Krzyzewski
Coach rode you pretty hard today. That’s a good thing. It shows you he hasn’t given up on you. • Randy Pausch
What: Motivate MeWho: PairsLength: 5 minutes Exercise 4
What did I do? • You may find this funny, but I never actually mentioned how to coach • I showed you • That’s more important because no two coaches are the same, but the problems that they face are one and the same
What did I show you? • I showed you how to give a group ownership • Don’t play favorites • How to find your gut feeling • How to engage a group • How to give the big picture and the details at the same time • Sports aren’t about the skills • I was real with you • I facilitated, letting you derive meaning • The coach can’t play for you • I let you practice motivating someone