NFHS Coaching Today

Promoting Your Athletic Program Through Technology
Coaches and school athletic administrators have much in common with businesses, media outlets and others who have a “product” to offer customers.
By Erich Frombach

Assessment Use for Optimal Coaching
How do you know if your coaching techniques are having the desired effects on your athletes? How do you know if an athlete is improving?
By Vincent Granito Jr., Ph.D.

Basic Training for Distance Running
Distance running training seems predisposed to allowing a variety of ideas, philosophies and theories all to be considered in vogue or correct at various times.
By Jeff Arbogast

[Sport-specific]
[Poll]

What was the primary factor influencing you to take the coaching position you currently hold?

Geographical location of school

Level of compensation/stipend for coaching

Greater potential for success

Level of competition/expanded responsibilities

Teaching/classroom assignment

Other

[Citizenship/Sportsmanship]

Volunteering to Win
In a recent NFHS Coaching Today article entitled “High School Athletics and Community Service,” Kent Smith explains the need to involve community service in high school athletic programs.
By Jason Despain

[Reflections]

Using Failures Well
My mentor, Fred Smith Sr., used to say, “Never lose the good in a bad situation.” This is a piece of wisdom I’ve attempted to live out. While failures are seldom fun, they can be wonderful teachers if we are patient and mature enough to view them through the lens of humility.
By Dan Gerdes, Ph.D.

[Coach-Official Relationship]

Improving the Relationship Between Coach and Umpire
The relationship between baseball coaches and umpires, much like a successful marriage, is built upon the ability to forgive, forget and move on to the next confrontation. It is truly one of the strangest relationships in all of sports.
By Chris Healy

[Current News]

NFHS Coach Education Launches Lacrosse Courses
The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) has added two new sports-specific courses to its Coach Education program – Fundamentals of Coaching Boys Lacrosse and Fundamentals of Coaching Girls Lacrosse.

[Coaching Awards]

National Coaches of the Year Selected by NFHS Coaches Association
Twenty high school coaches from across the country have been selected 2011 National Coaches of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Coaches Association.

[Coaching Tips]

Convenient, Compliant, Conditional or Full Commitment?

Commitment is usually one of the things that successful teams attribute to their success. Lack of commitment is usually one of the things identified in teams that fail.
[Key Quote]

“My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.”

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