 | Time Out With: Steve Hanson
Steve is a BCRPA Certified Personal Trainer who is in his 3rd year of a Bachelor of Physical Education & Coaching Degree at Douglas College. He has coached basketball and football for over 13 years and is a NCCP Level II Football Coach. He is an assistant basketball coach at Terry Fox Secondary under Rich Chambers and Mike Hind. When Steve is n...
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 | No Priority is More Important Than Building Confidence
One of my former college roommates forwarded me an excellent article that has real relevance for coaches, especially those who are taking over a team or program. As I read the article, I kept thinking about coaches at all levels who've been hired and achieved success immediately. Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech for example comes to mi...
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 | The ACL Tear: How to Reduce the Risk
Anyone that has been around high school girl's sport for any length of time will have seen girl's wearing knee braces or may have witnessed an incidence of an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Female athletes are 4-8 times more likely to have an ACL injury and it is predicted that 1 in a 100 high school female athletes will injure their ACL. Th...
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 | Larry Brown – Defensive Thoughts
- Get your team in great shape with defensive drills. Put your defense in early as a coach. Let the defense be ahead of the offense. It takes five players playing together to be a great defensive team. They will develop pride in working hard together. This will carry over to offense. Develop chemistry with team defense.
- If a coach put...
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 | Team Building – Legacy Assignment
Here is a great team building activity explained by Bob Starkey, an Assistant Coach with the Louisiana State Womens' Team. This has been a special part of the LSU program down through the years. There are many "war stories" of great deeds on and off the court among past Lady Tigers. We refer to them as alumni or Lady Tigers -- we ...
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 | The Key to Expanding Your Knowledge is Reading
Magic SVP Pat Williams is one of my favorite people. I'm fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him in Orlando when I was an assistant there. Pat, who also served as GM of the Hawks, Bulls, and Sixers, is a prolific reader who has written more than 50 books, including Read for Your Life. In it, Pat writes: “Readin...
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 | The Teacher's Secret
Years ago a John Hopkin's professor gave a group of graduate students this assignment: Go to the slums. Take 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment. Then predict their chances for the future. The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys, and compiling much data, conclude...
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 | Understanding the Rules
In each issue, The Coaches' Clipboard will look at aspects of the game and how it is officiated. Our answers will be supplied by Bill Denney, the Rules Interpreter for the BC Basketball Officials Association. As British Columbia Boys' and Girls' High School Basketball Associations make the transition to FIBA rules the “Understanding ...
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