#202 Betsy Butterick: How to Coach and Connect with Gen-Z
Sunday, 10 January 2021
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher This week on the Way of Champions Podcast we welcome Betsy Butterick. As “The Coaches’ Coach” Betsy helps coaches do what they’ve yet to do, so they can be who they’ve yet to be. As a communication specialist, Betsy assists individuals in all facets of communication while developing the
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#158 Quin Snyder: NBA Head Coach, philosopher, and Master of the Relationship Game
Sunday, 15 March 2020
This week on the Way of Champions Podcast we welcome NBA Head Coach of the Utah Jazz, Quin Snyder. We discuss Coach Quin’s journey of going from a player to a coach and how coaching overseas overseas helped him create his coaching philosophy. Coach Snyder is not like a lot of coaches, in that he
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Are Sports Fundamentally Good?
Thursday, 26 December 2019
I recently came across a great quote from the poet TS Elliot, who says “Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security with the delight of adventure.” The quote
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Designing Culture Through the Legacy Notebook
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Article by James Leath (jamesleath.com) and reposted with permission. “Because your experience is valuable, and tradition shouldn’t graduate.” – James Leath A few years ago, as the Head of Leadership at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, I held an end of season meeting with the seniors of that team. I was introducing the concept of
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#85 How to Transform the Culture of Your Youth Sports Program with Nate Baldwin, Appleton Parks and Recreation Sports Coordinator
Sunday, 28 October 2018
Across the board, youth sports participation rates are dropping and coach retention is extremely low, yet Appleton recreation is seeing an average of 60% increase in participation across its four biggest sports and coach retention is 90%. What are they doing differently? Enjoy the Show! Show Notes 1:00 Nate’s backstory 12:30 If we are in
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#82 The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture with author Damian Hughes
Sunday, 07 October 2018
Great cultures abound as examples of sporting success. The key is to build your own, using the success clues left by others as your guide. In this episode, Damien Hughes outlines the clues left by Barcelona and other great sports cultures so we can begin to develop a culture of success with our teams. Enjoy
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WOC #59 “I Like Recruiting Farm Kids!” How 3x NCAA Champion UConn Field Hockey Coach Nancy Stevens Builds Championship Teams
Sunday, 29 April 2018
Head Coach Nancy Stevens wrote one short sentence on the locker room mirror prior to the start of UConn Field Hockey’s 2017 season. She then repeated that sentence in the locker room only moments before the team won the National Championship. One short sentence that empowered them, loosened them up, gave them confidence. What did
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Coaches, Stop ‘Dealing with Parents’ and Start Engaging Them!
Monday, 12 December 2016
(This article was written by Nate Sanderson and originally appeared on Breakthrough Basketball. Nate is a great friend of Changing The Game Project and coach of the Iowa State Champion Springville Girls Basketball Team. We highly encourage every coach and parent to read this and institute this in your team). For the past 14 years
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