Building a Winning Culture in High School Sports... and Beyond


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What makes a sports team successful? What is a winning team culture in sport?How do you build team culture in sport? What does a winning environment look like?How do the sports team core values and life lessons of a winning environment influence young athletes?Think back through your life and sports you played? Whether it be football, wrestling, lacrosse, basketball, or hockey, what was your culture like? What values and lessons did your coach teach you? How did your coach and team culture while participating in youth sports impact your life? Have you ever wondered why some high school sports teams, with no recruiting, and oftentimes smaller athlete pools, are so successful year after year? Why do some teams win state titles or consistently finish at the top of their division or state year after year? What is it that these programs are doing that allows this success to carry through graduating class after graduating class? To get a better understanding, I figured I should start with the coach. I reached out to the winning-est local coaches talked at length on how they built their winning culture and what they do to maintain it. Right away, it was easy to see, with their grateful mindsets, humility, and inspiring presence, why these coaches were so successful. I then reached out to coaches from all around the country. From Texas football coaches and Minnesota hockey coaches to Pennsylvania and Iowa Wrestling coaches to California Volleyball coaches, they all enthusiastically agreed to participate, and share their knowledge, culture building strategies and inspiring stories. With over 500 state titles, 30 national championships, and a continued formula for success in shaping the young men and women of tomorrow, these coaches and their programs exemplify a winning environment. Along with the inspirational stories to be told about each school's culture, we found commonalities across this broad spectrum of successful sports programs. We compared these commonalities to successful business, military, SWAT, and other organizational models that participated. We found that the lessons we learn and attitude/culture we develop playing youth and high school sports transcends the athletic field and serves as a cultural foundation for which many successful organizations are built upon.Over 150 hours of interviews including:*Coach Gary Joseph of 7X Texas Football State Champion Katy High School*Coach George Quarles from 15X State Champion Marryville High School Football*Coach Mike Messere of 15X New York Lacrosse State Champion West Genesee*Coach Bob Shriver of Current National Champion Boys Latin Lacrosse*Coach Greg Urbas of 11 X National Champion/29 X Ohio State Wrestling Champion St Edwards High School*Coach Jeff Jordan of 17X Ohio State and current national champion St Paris Graham Wrestling*Coach Russ Cozart of 34 consecutive years/452 match win streak/ 16 straight state title Brandon High School Wrestling*4X National Coach of the Year Miller Bugliari of 20 X New Jersey State Champion Pingry School Soccer*Coach Jeff Brameier of 10X Connecticut Lacrosse State Champion Darien Lacrosse*Coach Trent Eigner of National Champion/Minnesota State Champion Lakeville North Boys Hockey*Coach Bill Hansen from 17X state champion/6X national champion Catholic Memorial Hockey*Coach Bret Almazan-Cezar of Volleyball National Champion/ 11 time California State champion Archbishop Mitty*Coach Hal Wasson of 8X Texas Football State Champion Southlake Carroll High School*Tom Landry Award Winner Coach Larry Hill of 3X Texas State Finalist Smithson Valley Football*A Retired U.S. Military Colonel*A former Marine who worked for mother Theresa, taught high school students, and climbed Mt Everest*A 3 time cancer survivor*Two Multi-Billion dollar company executives and other business and organizational leadersand more.Pick up your copy today and start a tradition of excellence







How to Teach High School Football Players to Be Mentally Disciplined


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Mental discipline is a trainable trait. Coaches do not have to rely on players to either have mental discipline or not. But, there is a mental discipline training process to follow to teach the players. In this book, How to Train High School Football Players to be Mentally Disciplined, Coach Bill Renner, describes the process of mental discipline training for high school football players. This process includes the procedures for on-the-field, off-the-field, player conduct, and football program procedures. There are many areas a high school football coach must set a behavior expectation for the players. Often those areas are overlooked, or, the behavior expectation is not established prior to it being violated by the players. With 23-years of successful head high school football coaching experience at four high schools, Coach Renner has created a comprehensive list of the areas a head football must set behavior expectations for his players. A sampling of those include on-the-field situations such as stretching and agilities, injury procedures, sideline conduct, practice attire, game attire, scoring a touchdown, practice accountability, and post-game player handshake line. Off-the-field areas include care of the locker room, care of their equipment, attendance at freshman or JV games, away game trips, classroom behavior and academic checks. Player conduct areas include player's language, promptness, attitude, social media, in-season socializing, and homecoming week activities. Football program procedures include program traditions like touching a sign, national anthem conduct, victory song, pre-game meals, captain selection, team picture, and banquet attire. Coach Renner gives you his team's expectations for each of these areas and more. He also details the mental discipline training he instituted to correct inappropriate behavior for each area. Those discipline training reminders were different for in-season, off-season, or, classroom/school violations. If you would like to develop a strong football culture you need to have behavior expectations for all the areas the players will be in. This book will give you a comprehensive outline of how to accomplish creating a strong football culture by training high school football players to be mentally disciplined.




Athletic Development


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Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team. The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical preparation. Gambetta includes never-before-published and ready-to-use training approaches in - sport-specific demands analysis, - work capacity enhancements, - movement skills development, - long- and short-term training program progressions, and - rest and regeneration techniques. Athletic Development explains what works, what doesn't, and why. Gambetta's no-nonsense approach emphasizes results that pay off in the competitive season and reflect his work at the highest echelons of sport. Merging principles of anatomy, biomechanics, and exercise physiology with sports conditioning applications and four decades of professional practice, this is the definitive guide to performance-enhancing training.




Changing the Game


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The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.




The High School Athlete: Football


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BRING YOUR GAME—AND YOUR PLAYERS—TO THE NEXT LEVEL For the dedicated student athlete, it’s always football season. The High School Athlete: Football is the essential program for any student looking to play football in high school, as well as any coach looking to revolutionize their methods. Designed from the ground up for developing student athletes and drawing on scientifically proven training models, The High School Athlete: Football builds from fundamentals to advanced workout progressions for both freshmen and varsity players of all positions. With over 100 workouts, The High School Athlete: Football includes everything a young athlete needs to know about physical and mental fitness, nutrition, and training regimens. Geared towards young athletes and their immediate fitness goals, The High School Athlete: Football’s comprehensive workout schedule takes players through an entire year, from pre-season to off-season, helping players maintain gains while driving themselves beyond their limits to achieve never-before-seen results. The High School Athlete series provides sport-specific training and nutrition information designed to enhance the winning capacity of high school athletes. Based on successful strategies with proven results, The High School Athlete series offers coaches and student athletes a comprehensive resource for physical and mental development and conditioning.




Guide to Football Literature


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An Analysis of College Selection Factors for High School Football Athletes


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It is argued that the most important part of collegiate athletics is recruiting successful studentathletes. Collegiate athletes are different than the general student population in that they have a much wider variety of factors to consider when selecting a university. This study investigated the factors and campus visit activities that recruits deem the most important while they are going through the recruiting process. A survey was sent out to Senior high school football athletes who had been through the recruiting process to identify what the most important factors and campus visit actives are when selecting a university. This study also investigates the difference between recruits from different sized high-schools. The results of this study could potentially be used to help college football coaches determine the factors that are most important to a student-athlete and how to create the best campus visit experience for a potential student-athlete.




Building a Winning Culture in High School Football


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Have you ever wondered why certain high school football teams win league titles and state championships year after year? Building a Winning Culture is a unique program designed to teach coaches and athletes how to build a winning culture from goal setting and character development lessons to team unifying training and accountability off-season and in-season strength and conditioning programs, sprint programs, speed development programs and more.