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How Good Are You Going to Become?
“To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do what you have never before done.” R G Scott Coaches, here is a message I...
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- Feb 17, 2014
Messages We Send
Messages we Send – Written by GMS Staff Member Rob Browning During a match we are constantly sending messages to our team, and our...
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- Dec 11, 2012
Coaching the Young Kids, Part 2
My last blog entry was about teaching kids how to play the entire game by allowing them to perform all skills in practice and matches. ...
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- Nov 12, 2012
Teaching the Young Kids
As the club volleyball season gets underway, I would like to share some thoughts on my experience Coaching Volleyball players from 8 to...
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- Aug 9, 2012
Five Coaching Strengths that Produce Champions
This summer’s Olympics got us thinking: how do we as managers and leaders become coaches who elicit greatness in others? A study of the...
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- Jun 7, 2012
Stepping Up When it Matters (it always matters)
We have all heard about the great competitors who raise the level of their game when it matters most. I’m not buying it. Great...
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- Feb 20, 2012
Why Athletes Disengage
My first overseas volleyball experience was bitter-sweet. The sweet parts for me were the opportunities to get to know a new culture, the...
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- Jan 25, 2012
Super Bowl – Consequence of Little Things
The 2011 PAC 12 Season is looking like it will be the last where a true double round-robin is used to determine the conference...
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- Oct 21, 2011
Expectations
How many of you have coached a team and had what was termed as a “big win”? Three weeks ago my team experienced exactly that. We played a...
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- Oct 12, 2011
Yeats and the Volleyball Season
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing – William Butler...
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- Oct 10, 2011
The Ultimate Over-Achievers
This past weekend, unbeknownst to many here in the United States, the Wallabies (Australia) defeated the Springboks (South Africa) and...
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- Oct 6, 2011
The Dog Days
I was reading a fishing report a few weeks back, and it was entitled “The Dog Days of Summer.” The report went on to explain the current...
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- Sep 27, 2011
Staying the Course–Process over Outcome
Last Thursday we played our first conference match of the year at BYU–a new member of the West Coast Conference. We knew they were very...
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- Sep 12, 2011
Fundamentals of Relationships
When traveling with the Men’s National Team, there is inevitably a significant amount of downtime. I try to be as productive as possible...
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- Aug 29, 2011
Courage
The following blog post is not so much about volleyball, camps, clinics, and instruction. It’s a bit of reminder that there are much...
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- Mar 23, 2011
Why Talent is Overrated
By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large (Fortune Magazine) — It is mid-1978, and we are inside the giant Procter & Gamble headquarters in...
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- Mar 23, 2011
The Competitive Cauldron
The Competitive Cauldron Written by Tom Black Explaining the Competitive Cauldron There is no improvement without intensity. This is what...
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