Download or read book Rough Diamonds written by Tommy Reamon and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football coach Tommy Reamon has crafted a unique ability among high school coaches, the ability to hone in on natural talent on the football field and to forge a personal connection with the young athletes themselves. His stories and memories of coaching the promising, would-be professional players as well as those just there for the love of the game, are shared in this heartfelt memoir. During his many years of coaching at schools such as in Newport News, Virginia, Coach Reamon has helped guide students to the National Football League, including Kwamie Lassiter, Aaron Brooks, and Michael Vick. His inspiring relationship with the students and the struggles that come with bringing out the best in another person will remind readers of the heart behind the physical challenges of football.

Download or read book The Coach s Widow written by Alexis Pacheco and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect marriage. A young husband with a budding career. A single phone call that stunned a newlywed wife and a small Arkansas community.At twenty-seven, Alexis McMahan's life had finally molded itself into perfection ... until the call that ended it all and forced her to start over.Through Christ, Alexis and Jorre McMahan had overcome tumultous circumstances while they dated, leading Jorre to become a football coach. Bonded together by Christ, football, and their impassioned love, the pair married, and Alexis assumed her new identity as Coach Mac's wife. Three months after their wedding, in the midst of football season, Alexis's picturesque world shattered when Coach Mac collapsed and died on the field, surrounded by his players.Jorre's unexpected death at the age of twenty-six confronted Alexis with the unknowns of young widowhood and so much more--the tragedy of Coach Mac's death unearthed his painful secret. The hidden truth cracked Alexis's perception of reality and catapulted her into an angry pit of despair. There her faith wavered ... until she chose to trust the only one who could pull her out and into the light: Jesus.

Download or read book You Must Play to Win written by Donna J. Newberry and published by McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Newberry was a legendary coach of women's sport at Muskingum College (now University) in New Concord, Ohio, from 1974 through 2010. During that time, she faced many challenges such as inadequate funding, heavy teaching and coaching responsibilities, budgets controlled by the men's athletic program, poor facilities, and team tragedies yet, with passionate determination and high standards, she transformed the women's athletics program at Muskingum into one that was consistently respected at the state, regional, and national levels. You Must Play to Win! is a collection of Donna Newberry's personal reflections on her hugely successful career of commitment to excellence and gender equality in sport during a time of dramatic change in women's collegiate athletics. The book was completed late in 2010 as Donna was dying of breast cancer.

Download or read book Don t Put Me In Coach written by Mark Titus and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong. In 2006, Mark Titus arrived on Ohio State's campus as a former high school basketball player who aspired to be an orthopedic surgeon. Somehow, he was added to the elite Buckeye basketball team, given a scholarship, and played alongside seven future NBA players on his way to setting the record for most individual career wins in Ohio State history. Think that's impressive? In four years, he scored a grand total of nine—yes, nine—points. This book will give readers an uncensored and uproarious look inside an elite NCAA basketball program from Titus's unique perspective. In his four years at the end of the bench, Mark founded his wildly popular blog Club Trillion, became a hero to all guys picked last, and even got scouted by the Harlem Globetrotters. Mark Titus is not your average basketball star. This is a wild and completely true story of the most unlikely career in college basketball. A must-read for all fans of March Madness and college sports!

Download or read book Becoming a Coach written by Jonathan Passmore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by masters in the field of coaching, this book is designed as a course textbook for those studying coaching in general, but with a specific reference to the updated competences introduced by the International Coaching Federation in 2020. It focuses on core coaching skills, knowledge, and developing self-awareness. This is a definitive text for coach training and go-to guide for those undertaking ICF-accredited programs throughout the world. This book helps readers equip themselves with the skills and knowledge needed to develop as a professional coach. It encourages readers to reflect on who they are, what they can do, and how they can enhance their skills. By drawing on the Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, this book ensures that a trainer's practice is well informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards.

Download or read book Behind the Coach written by Jerry Mack Sr and published by J. Kenkade Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind the Coach" is an inspiring manifestation of the coaching journey of Jerry Mack, Jr., and the victories and challenges that led to him becoming the third, youngest, active Division 1 Head College Football Coach in the country. The incredible, unwavering support of Jerry's family shows just how vital support is to the dreams of a loved one, within both their successes and failures. Told through the eyes of his father and author of this book, Jerry Mack, Sr, from behind the coach.

Download or read book America s Coach written by Ross Bernstein and published by Bernstein Books. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of legendary coach Herb Brooks comes to life in this heart-warming, motivational biography, celebrating the legacy of a true American hero. As the architect of the fabled 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey "Miracle on Ice," Brooks showed the world that dreams really can come true. Brooks' unorthodox ideologies and philosophies on team-building, leadership and motivation can be applied to the real world just as easily as they can to the business world. Follow along as Brooks' amazing life is chronicled with anecdotes, quotes, funny stories and nuggets of wisdom from Brooks himself.

Download or read book InSideOut Coaching written by Joe Ehrmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspirational yet practical book, the man Parade called “the most important coach in America,” subject of the national bestseller Season of Life, Joe Ehrmann, describes his coaching philosophy and explains how sports can transform lives at every level of play, from the earliest years to professional sports. Coaches have a tremendous platform, says Joe Ehrmann, a former Syracuse University All-American and NFL star. Perhaps second only to parents, coaches can impact young people as no one else can. But most coaches fail to do the teaching, mentoring, even life-saving intervention that their platform provides. Too many are transactional coaches; they focus solely on winning and meeting their personal needs. Some coaches, however, use their platform. They teach the Xs and Os, but also teach the Ys of life. They help young people grow into responsible adults; they leave a lasting legacy. These are the transformational coaches. These coaches change lives, and they also change society by helping to develop healthy men and women. InSideOut Coaching explains how to become a transformational coach. Coaches first have to “go inside” and articulate their reasons for coaching. Only those who have taken the InSideOut journey can become transformational. Joe Ehrmann provides examples of coaches in his life who took this journey and taught him how to find something bigger than himself in sports.He describes his own InSideOut experience, starting with the death of his beloved brother, which helped him understand how sports could transcend the playing field. He gives coaches the information and the tools they need to become transformational. Joe Ehrmann has taken his message about the extraordinary power of sports all over the country. It has been warmly endorsed by NFL head coaches, athletic directors at major universities, high school head coaches, even business groups and community organizations. Now any parent-coach or school or community coach can read Ehrmann’s message and learn how to make sports a life-changing experience.

Download or read book Coaching Stories written by Karen Dean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a coach is a deeply rewarding profession, but even the best coaches encounter moments of uncertainty and doubt. In Coaching Stories: Flowing and Falling of Being a Coach, Karen Dean and Sam Humphrey intimately share their varied experiences as executive coaches in 48 stories – some where they were flowing and glorious, and others where they were falling and ashamed. Dean and Humphrey guide the reader through the journey from a novice to a master coach by exploring twelve distinct themes, underpinned by the four parts of Dean’s ‘Exceptional Achievement’ framework: setting out, doing, integrating and being. Each chapter focuses on a different theme, presenting specific examples and stories from the authors’ work and reflecting on their learning and development at each point. Dean and Humphrey expertly assess topics, including confidence, talent, purpose and fulfilment, by examining times where they performed effectively as well as those where they fell short. In each case they consider what they wish they had asked or known about in advance, and each story provides an insightful look at what being a coach is really like. Practical and accessible, the book concludes with a section on further reading and study, explaining relevant theories, models and frameworks. Coaching Stories: Flowing and Falling of Being a Coach will be a compassionate and pragmatic companion for coaches of all kinds, both in practice and in training. It will also be a valuable guide for other professionals seeking development, including internal coaches, managers in a coaching role, HR and L&D professionals and will be a useful text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. Dean and Humphrey are award-winning authors and have written a number of articles for leading coaching publications.

Download or read book A Perfect Season written by Dan Clemens and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming baseball story, Dan Clemens reveals the triumphs, failures, frustrations, and joys of being a youth baseball coach. Through 65 personal journal entries, Clemens takes readers on a behind the scenes tour of his 12-year-old son's baseball season. "It was perfect," he says, "but not in terms of wins and losses." Rather, Coach Dan's team achieved their goals of learning, competing and having fun - the three things he emphasizes that should drive youth sports. Clemens's perfect season is chocked full of humor, passion, lessons learned, and wisdom to make youth baseball an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all involved. He offers many insights that will help youth coaches - and their players - enjoy A Perfect Season of their own.A Perfect Season is a must-read for every youth coach . . . and shows parents what they should expect from someone they are intrusting to coach their kids.

Download or read book How to Start a Book Business Or Creative Project When You re Stuck written by Robbie Swale and published by Winds of Trust Publications. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could write a book 12 minutes at a time? That's what leadership coach Robbie Swale did, and his 12-Minute Method has the power to get you unstuck and get your book, business or creative project off the ground.

Download or read book Coaching Agile Teams written by Lyssa Adkins and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?

Download or read book Effective Modern Coaching written by Myles Downey and published by Lid Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to become a great business coach and get the best out of your people.

Download or read book Parent s Guide to Coping with Autism written by Sarah Ziegel and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential guide for parents and carers coping with children with autism. When Sarah Ziegel's twin boys were diagnosed with autism, aged almost three, she realized that there was very little practical information about what to do. When her next two children were also diagnosed with the condition, she was even more determined to put that lack of information right. This book is the result of Sarah's experiences of dealing with autism in the family. While covering personal aspects such as coping emotionally with a diagnosis, the book also tackles practical matters, such as education and the EHCP process, how to get help and support, and also considers the medical side of autism. Written by a former nurse, and full-time mother and carer, A Parent's Guide to Coping with Autism is a highly sensitive and professional guide and is the book you will want to reach for when faced with a diagnosis, or if you simply want to find out more about the condition.

Download or read book Wander Woman written by Marcia Reynolds and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fresh research and powerful stories to give voice to a new generation of women driven by challenge and change Offers compelling advice on how to make wandering a life strategy, not just a series of unplanned events Includes probing questions and thought-provoking exercises to help readers find peace in life's chaos and confusion 2011 Axiom Award Gold Medal winner in the category of Women in Business There’s a new generation of high-achieving women today—confident, ambitious, accomplished, driven. And yet, as master coach Marcia Reynolds discovered, many of them are also anxious, discontented, and frustrated. They’re constantly questioning their purpose, juggling multiple roles, and reevaluating their goals. As a result they’re restless—they move from job to job, from challenge to challenge, almost on impulse. They’re wander women. Existing personal growth books, so focused on empowerment and encouragement, can’t help these women. They don’t need to find their voice—they know how to roar. They don’t expect balance in their lives—but they long to find peace in the chaos. They aren’t necessarily focused on gaining a seat in the boardroom—they want projects that mean something or businesses they run on their own. Reynolds helps wander women understand the roots of their restlessness and make their wandering a conscious strategy, not a reaction. Drawing on extensive research and interviews she illuminates the needs that drive their decisions and the core assumptions that lock them into rigid perfectionist patterns. She offers a wealth of exercises and practices that will enable wander women to reset their mental programming, discover new ways of finding direction, and thoughtfully choose and plan their futures, whether they climb the corporate ladder, find satisfaction below the glass ceiling, or set out on their own. For every woman plagued by frustration and self-doubt—“Will what I’ve done ever feel good enough?”—Wander Woman sets the stage to uncover the answers to life’s tough questions about meaning and purpose, significance and value, and the legacy you can leave from a life lived well.

Download or read book In Dooleys Garden written by Vince Dooley and published by Hill Street Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doole y's Garden Vince Dooley Illustrated by Steve Penley Vince Dooley, the nationaly acclaimed football coach is also a master gardener whose gardens have been widely featured in national publications, including Southern Living. Thousands have toured his gardens, where he lovingly and eloquently provides insights into his garden design ideas and management techniques for the sultry South. One of the most celebrated artists in America, Steve Penley is best known for his bold and vibrant paintings of historical and popular icons, is widely collected, and is the subject of significant media attention. The friendship between Dooley and Penley is further forged in the stunning, unique collection of images found in In Dooley's Garden. Occasional photographs provide context for over 45 stunning color paintings of Dooley's garden, accompanied with text by Dooley describing the design and providing insights about nature and his love of spending time in the garden. Vince Dooley is the retired head coach and athletic director for the University of Georgia. He is the author and contributor to many books. He lives in Athens, Georgia. Steve Penley is a renowned painter whose work is in galleries nationally and has been profiled in two books about him, as well as featured in many other books and national magazines. He lives in Georgia.

Download or read book No Turning Back written by Benjamin Wade and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Benjamin Wade, then 24 years old, set out to paddle his kayak from Baja, California, to South America - a six thousand mile journey expected to take several months. During the long months, he found within himself a deep faith that carried him through what he would later describe as "six months of hell." These pages hold the account of that journey, an expedition that made him, in the end, a stronger person.