By: Julie Hatfield-Still Provided By: Beyond The Game Alliance As a high school or elite-level coach, your ability to understand how athletes learn best is critical to unlocking their potential and building rapport quickly. Athletes […]
Great Teams Don’t Happen by Accident with Robert Grasso – La Jolla Country Day School (CA)
Watch as Robert Grasso discusses La Jolla Country Day’s leadership programs for athletics and how developing a culture is the key for a successful team. He explains great teams don’t happen by accident and although […]
Tips for Helping Your Athletes Unwind Using Their Comfort Zone (Phones) with Kim Karr – Digital4Good
Watch as Kim Karr discusses tips that administrators and coaches can use to help athletes unwind using their comfort zone (phones). Communication and conversations about an athlete’s phone can impact their mood and stress level. […]
Coaching Yourself: Controlling Your Anger
By: Rainer Martens and Robin S. Vealey Originally Published in: Successful Coaching Provided by: Human Kinetics The very nature of sport—the potential for injustice and for physical and mental injury—increases the likelihood of coaches experiencing […]
What Are Your Athletes’ Biggest Influences? with Chet Scott – Built to Lead
Watch as Chet Scott explains the ‘leadership is influence’ concept, and that you know you are a leader if you have followers. If you are going to lead and influence your players, it would be […]
Three Impactful Ways to Help Athletes Build Mental Strength Right Now
By: Julie Hatfield-Still Athletics are about more than just winning games or improving physical skills, it’s also a critical time for building the mental strength athletes need to succeed in sports and life. As a […]
Ankle Picks & Options with Dalton Jensen – Univ. of Nebraska at Kearney
Watch as Coach Dalton Jensen explains and demonstrates ankle picks and different options based on the opponent’s response. He starts off in a collar tie and focuses on controlling the far side wrist. During the […]
Quad Pod Cradle Defense with Austin DeVoe – Colorado School of Mines
Watch as Coach Austin DeVoe explains and demonstrates a quad pod cradle defense. From a quad pod position, the inside knee will go down between the legs while the inside foot does not move. Move […]
Fundamentals Create the Highlights with Brian Smith – Univ. of Missouri
Watch as Coach Brian Smith explains the importance of stressing fundamentals to your wrestlers. They must understand that fundamentals are the basis of successful wrestlers at any level. The fundamentals of stance, level change, penetration […]
Drag Set-Up Drill with Mark Branch – Univ. of Wyoming
Watch as Coach Mark Branch explains, and wrestlers demonstrate the Drag Set-Up Drill. This is a great drill to help players get focused and ready for practice after they have completed warmups. One wrestler will […]
Best Versus Worst Performances
By: Dr. Colleen M. Hacker Originally Published in: Achieving Excellence Provided by: Human Kinetics By examining your best performances and comparing and contrasting them with your worst performances, you can identify the key elements of […]
Holistic Coaching for the Benefit of All Players
Originally published in an Adam Sarancik Book “Never confuse winning with succeeding. A successful league and team is one that inspires its players to want to come back again tomorrow.” Too often, leagues and teams […]
Accept It or Correct It with Alan Stein, Jr.
Alan Stein, Jr. explains that every single behavior that goes on in your program, on or off the field, is either something you accept or correct. He also explains how eliminating some behaviors, such as […]
Full-Feature! Go-To Drills with Matt Storniolo – Northwestern Univ.
7 DAYS ONLY! Access to this 28-minute session from a Denver Wrestling Coaches Clinic that is available in our Wrestling Coaches Insider +Plus video library will expire on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – Enjoy! Watch […]
Defending an Outside Shot with Sammy Sasso – Ohio State Univ.
Watch as Sammy Sasso explains and demonstrate defending against an outside shot. When the opponent’s head is to the outside and his shoulder is tight to the abdomen you must set the corner. Slide and […]
Single Leg and High Crotch Positional Warmup Drills with Jake Arnone – Colorado School of Mines
Watch as Coach Jake Arnone explains and demonstrates these positional warmup drills. The first drill, the Single Leg, starts with an emphasis on position, knee behind knee and shoulder over the thigh, and head on […]
Hazing/Bullying in Athletics
By: David T. Morris Originally Published in: Student-Athletes: Control Your Own Destiny Definition of Bullying: As defined by the organization, stopbullying.gov, “bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real […]
Sweep Single with Ryan Deakin
Watch as Coach Ryan Deakin explains and demonstrates this sweep single and finish. His first moves are a backhand punch then the right hand, circle, make the opponent take a step, sweep the leg and […]
Empowering Coaches: Strategies for Supporting Youth from Struggling Homes in Athletics
By: Scott Garvis, CMAA Provided By: NHSACA As a coach, it’s essential to support students who come from struggling homes. These kids may face various challenges, and coaches can play a vital role in providing […]
Leadership: What Type of Team Do You Want to Be? with Robert Grasso – La Jolla Country Day School (CA)
Robert Grasso discusses how coaches must determine with their players what type of standards and values they must set that define their teams. It is important to ask questions so that players understand why they […]
Our Mission Coaching/Leading/Teaching Girls with Meghan Orgeman – Alexandria Area High School (MN)
Coach Meghan Orgeman discusses the mission of coaching, leading, and teaching girls. The highlights include these key points: Socialize our girls to be imperfect within a supportive network of people who care deeply for them. […]
Underhook to a Front Headlock with Jake Arnone – Colorado School of Mines
Watch as Coach Jake Arnone explains and with a wrestler demonstrates using an underhook to get to a front headlock. He describes the advantage of moving the opponent by pulling them in a circle and […]
The Mental Approach to Coaching
By: Adam Sarancik Author of: Coaching Champions for Life “When evaluating your team, look first in the mirror with honest intent.” What is your mental approach to coaching? By your mental approach, I’m not asking […]
The Team! The Team! The Team!
By: Jamy Bechler Originally Published in The Leadership Playbook The old acronym of T.E.A.M. in which together everyone achieves more is true more often than not. Players need teammates that are willing and able to […]
Are You Trustworthy? with Dr. Timothy Baghurst – Florida State Univ.
Watch as Dr. Timothy Baghurst explains that trust is the #1 factor in building culture. It all starts with you and if the players, assistant coaches, and staff don’t trust you, it does not matter […]
Mental Health Approach with Kevin Ward – Oklahoma State Univ.
Watch as Coach Kevin Ward explains how he communicates with his wrestlers concerning mental health issues. He thinks it is key that coaches model what they want their athletes to be. Conversations on mental health […]
Go-To Drills with Jarion Beets – Ponderosa High School (CO) & Austin DeVoe – Colorado School of Mines
Watch as Coach Jarion Beets discusses a few drills that he uses every day that help players get to the next level as far as chain wrestling, keeping pressure, and being on the steady attack. […]
Go-To Drills with Matt Storniolo – Northwestern Univ. & Jeremy Spates – Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville
Watch as Coach Matt Storniolo discusses go-to drills that he uses that highlight good timing and anticipating your opponents next move. He addresses the importance of positioning and technique to have a good offense. His […]
Misdirection Attacks with Jeremy Spates – Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville & Matt Storniolo – Northwestern Univ.
Watch as Coach Jeremy Spates discusses misdirection attacks that he used and teaches his athletes; he describes them as being good for wrestlers who are not the strongest or the fastest. One misdirection he covers […]
Snatch Singles with Jarion Beets – Ponderosa High School (CO) & Ryan Deakin – Former NCAA Coach
Watch as Coach Jarion Beets discusses how he prefers snatch singles over sweep singles. He notes for larger athletes that doing a snatch single is better for athletes who don’t want to drop to a […]