Perfecting Practice, Quality Balanced Coaching

While there are many differences between personalities, sport expectations, and experiences, all championship athletes share certain qualities. Championship athletes are all physically fit, mentally healthy, and socially nimble. Coaches can foster these qualities in their athletes to help create champions on and off the field.

Join Rebecca Wade-Mdivanian, former soccer coach and Director of Operations at the LiFEsports Initiative, and Vincent Minjares, former basketball coach and Project Manager at the Aspen Institute, as they discuss tryouts. Topics include how to run effective tryouts, set selection criteria, and talk to athletes who have and have not been selected for the team.

Join Dr. Dawn-Anderson Butcher (Director of LiFEsports), Joe Roberts (Princeton Athletic Director), Landon Zellars (Cheerleading Coach), and Nate Maust (Soccer Coach) as they share some tips and tricks for hosting a successful end-of-season banquet.

This video training helps coaches strengthen their practice through intentional self-reflection, turning everyday experiences into meaningful learning moments. Coaches are taught the start, stop, continue framework for reflection to help with continuous improvement as coaches!

Super Bowl Champion, and now coach, Lorenzo Styles walks coaches through reflection questions to help them create a coaching philosophy. Coach Styles highlights how he uses his coaching philosophy, and why having one is important.

Practice and preparation help athletes perform sport skills under pressure and build confidence. By learning and developing skills well before competition, athletes are more likely to succeed when it counts. Coaches can direct athletes’ attention, organize practice to emulate game-time situations, and provide feedback in specific ways to get players on their team ready to compete.

Join Dr. Samantha Bates and Quadrian Banks as they sit down with Coach Kevin McGuff, Head Coach for the Women's Basketball team at The Ohio State University, as they chat about how he prepares for the season and individual games.

Join us as we talk with Vincent Minjares from the Aspen Institute and Kristen Dieffenbach from the Center for Applied Coaching and Sport Sciences about perfecting different parts of practice from giving feedback to organizing practices to the end of season celebrations.

Join Dr. Dawn Anderson-Butcher and Victoria Jones (Chief of Athletics, Dayton Public Schools) as they sit down with Norris Cole (2-Time NBA Champion; Ohio Basketball and Cleveland State University Hall of Fame) to talk about the qualities of a champion!

Join Dr. Dawn Anderson-Butcher (Co-Executive Director, LiFEsports) and Jeni Ritter (Assistant Aquatics Director, University of North Florida & Head Girls Swimming Coach, Creekside High School) as they sit down with Dublin Jerome High School student-athlete state champions Brady Barnum (Boys Golf), Nikitha Suresh (Girls Golf), and Calan DeWalt (Boys Soccer) to talk about championship coaching from the student-athlete perspective.