A Coach's Diary

This is a great video on how you have to adapt as a leader in terms of how you drive performance.   As a coach, you want to drive your kids as hard as you can to get the most out of them everyday and to help them reach their full potential as athletes and people.   The trip is trying to get to know and understand your players as individuals, learning what they are capable of handling, and learning the best ways to affect their performance.   Every person is built different, every person has a different threshold, and every person can handle different levels and pressure.   You have to know how much a player can handle and what is the best way to get the most out of that player, which sometimes isn’t driving them as hard as you would like.   Sometimes that means meeting them halfway so that you can keep them motivated growing. He takes Brianna Stewart for example: if he meets her halfway, she might become half the player she is capable of.   Howev...

Former player Rebecca Lobo on some of the things that make Geno Auriemma great as a a coach. He demands excellence from everybody in his program at all times. He holds every play and person to a high standard everyday in practice.  He also knows how to motivate his players and the different personalities on his team to get them to perform at their highest level everyday.

I was watching the second installment of the Geno Project on ESPN last night, and Geno made a quick comment on The Law of Sacrifice from John Maxwell's book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.  He didn't address the book or the law directly, but his statement about the leadership growth from a freshman to a senior in his program and the amount of responsibility that comes with it alludes to it. As a freshmen, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had one job: to come in a score.  Now, as a senior, she is counted on to do so many things on top of that.  Its not easy to do, but it is part of the growth of becoming a leader - the added responsibility of having to do your job on top of helping others be successful at their job as well.