Category: Coaching
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Just Take Action
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” ~Jack Welch⠀-⠀This picture represents so much for me. This is my youngest with the youngest of one of the first players I coached (I was only a couple years out of college). It…
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Excellence is in the Details and the Mundane
The difference between a good team and a championship team is often not talent or even skill. It is often the amount of times they are willing to do the boring, mundane details in order to create habits that allow them to win the long rallies and perform under pressure. Championships aren’t won in one…
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The Joy of Investing in Others Always Outweighs the Risk
Coaching is one of those jobs that has really high highs and really low lows. If you are relationship driven like I am, the lows when one of your players refuses to buy in or seemingly intentionally does something hurtful are way worse than any low of losing a game.–In these moments, it is easy…
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Why I Coach
A few years ago, I was asked to participate in a Dear World event on my campus. As I contemplated how I should tell my story in this picture format, I decided on combining my passion for volleyball with what I feel is a calling on my life, to serve others through servant leadership…
