Quotes
Who said:
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it?
Who is Aristotle?
Our beliefs, values and actions as a coach is known as?
What is coaching philosophy?
Starting practice with a greeting and an overview of the focus for practice is known as what component?
What is the introduction or meeting?
When teaching a new skill to your athletes, to help them better understand the skill, it is suggested you do what to the skill?
What is break the skill down into steps or cues?
A strategy to have a portion of your practice spent on specific skill acquisition with less numbers of players in a competitive environment would be known as?
What is a small sided game?
Who said:
"A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life"
Who is John Wooden?
This famous coach created the "Pyramid of Success" as a framework for individual and team excellence?
Who is John Wooden?
When giving corrective feedback to an athlete during practice we talked about using what feedback strategy?
What is a feedback sandwich?
While athletes are practicing a new skill, before you can give feedback, what is your next step as a coach?
What is evaluate?
In understanding motivation, what type of motivation is longest lasting for our players?
What is intrinsic motivation?
Who said:
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Who is Michael Jordan?
As coaches, we need to understand our athletes skill level, so in practice we need to remember the concept of getting them involved in a task or drill quickly and observing? What do we call this technique?
What is setting up and standing back?
A key part of growing in your skills of planning and running a practice is consistent review of the effectiveness of both, this is known as?
What is reflection?
How can you best understand how to give feedback to your athletes?
What is know your athlete?
We talked about the 4 C's - objectives we have as a coach to help our players grow in 4 areas:
Competence, Confidence, Connected and what is the 4th C?
What is character?
Who said:
"Bad teams, no one leads. Average teams, coaches lead. But elite teams, players lead"
Who is PJ Fleck?
What is questioning or check for understanding?
A dynamic warm-up before or at the start of practice has 3 purposes, what are they?
What is getting the heart pumping/blood flowing, prevent injury and work on your proprioception skills.
Your athletes have a solid understanding and ability to perform a specific skill, what is the next step to help them get ready to perform it at a higher level?
What is add a stressor?
When teaching a skill, we talked about a 3 step process to help ensure our athletes KNOW how to perfom the skill. What is that 3 step process?
What is "say it, show it, do it"?
Who said:
"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."
Who is Yogi Berra?
Having core values with your team and in your program is important. Displaying that value daily for all players, coaching staff and anyone associated with the team is a great way to keep that front and center. What core value from Clemson Tigers Football Coach Dabo Swinney hangs over their practice field on a big banner.
What is "Best is the Standard?"
We have talked about the 4 E's of running a practice, what are all 4 characteristics?
What is energy, efficient, effective and everyone?
In Fitts and Posner's Motor Learning Theory, the autonomous stage is regulary referred to as what?
What is muscle memory?
A study was done of winning coaches and it found 4 coaching traits that were consistent amongst those high quality coaches; 1-knowledge of your sport, skills and rules, 2-knowing your athletes, and 3-eagerness to constantly reflect and grow, what was the 4th trait?
What is detailed practice plans?