To Be a Better Coach

Pete Van Mullem is a professor in movement and sport sciences at Lewis-Clark State College. He has over 14 years of professional experience in coaching and athletic administrative positions at the middle school, high school, small college, and NCAA Division II and Division I levels. He serves on the editorial board for the International Sport Coaching Journal and is the managing editor for PHE America. Van Mullem served as a member of the National Standards for Sport Coaches Revision Task Force. He has authored over 40 articles related to coach development.Lori Gano-Overway is an assistant professor and coaching education minor program director at James Madison University. She has been involved in coaching education for over 20 years and is an AASP certified mental performance consultant. Gano-Overway serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, and the International Sport Coaching Journal, and is the editor for the Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal. She is a board member for the United States Center for Coaching Excellence and serves as their accreditation chair. Gano-Overway is also a member of the Virginia High School League coaching education committee and serves on the National Advisory Board for the Positive Coaching Alliance. She is recently chaired the task force to revise the National Standards for Sport Coaches for SHAPE America.

To Be a Better Coach is both an extremely practical and deeply philosophical approach to working with young developing athletes in any sport. Being both a head coach and employer of close to a dozen other part-time coaches, I would absolutely use this systematic and thoughtful pedagogy to create a team culture where athletes and coaches strive to get better every day in a safe, mindful and uplifting fashion. I would recommend this book to any coach who is looking to improve and educate his or her staff as well as reminding all coaches why our job is so important.

• ForewordIntroductionChapter 1: To Coach is to Know your WhyChapter 2: To Coach is to Know your RoleChapter 3: To Coach is to Be a Role ModelChapter 4: To Coach is to Build RelationshipsChapter 5: To Coach is to Set the ClimateChapter 6: To Coach is to Keep Athletes SafeChapter 7: To Coach is to PlanChapter 8: To Coach is to TeachChapter 9: To Coach is to AssessChapter 10: To Coach is to AdaptChapter 11: To Coach is to Get Better Every DayAppendix Resources for Keeping Athletes SafeNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Authors