In my previous blog post on Home Court Advantage (HCA) I asked you to consider a possible theory I have as to the source. I did not tell you what you might do to mitigate the HCA. I will give you something in that regard, momentarily. The first thing I want you to clearly get [...]
Everybody talks about the value of being a team. My question isn’t whether they have a team or not, but rather what the level of that team is. People participating together for a particular purpose are a team. But, is that team striving for the highest level of excellence? Are they actually practicing to be [...]
Every team can achieve team chemistry by simply taking on the following: • Live that relationship is the key to everything • Create a Code of Honor (Basic Principles) to live by • Practice, practice, practice In order to be successful each player must realize what they have done. By saying, "yes" in a commitment [...]
One of my early coaching clients was Lyn St. James, the second woman, after Janet Guthrie, to race in the Indy 500. In her first Indy she was named Rookie of the Year. I believe it was 1994. When Lyn got in the racing business, women were not allowed in the pit at Indy. Auto [...]
Several clients are in Tempe, Arizona this weekend for a big intercollegiate women’s golf tournament. They are the coaches and athletes from several teams. The majority of them are members of PAC 12 teams. Some are not. The teams and personalities on those teams shall remain nameless since the point of this is to address [...]
There is a cool breeze blowing into Tempe, AZ today as some of the best collegiate women’s golf teams blow into town today. (Hopefully the breeze doesn’t get any stronger). I have had the privilege, and continue to have, of working with several coaches and their teams over the years. It is especially great that [...]
Adventures at CAL Todd Team Coaching has done a lot of work at the University of California(UC), Berkeley. Women’s and Men’s Tennis, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Golf, Women’s Swimming, Softball, and Gymnastics teams have all participated in our Building A Championship Team process. In addition we have worked with all of those coaching staffs in our Coaching Excellence [...]
There's A "Shark" In The Water This week my college roommate, Jerry Tarkanian, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. I say, totally deserved and about time. I have never much cared for the “Shark” nickname. I can look at it this way ... perhaps in the same vein as “pool shark.” [...]
There has been a big flap lately around the firing of Mike Price, Head Basketball Coach at Rutgers University and the subsequent firing of the Athletic Director. Even the President of the University came into question. I am not questioning the firing at all. I do question the “surprise and shock” going on around what [...]
The LPGA landed in Phoenix, Arizona a few weeks ago and I was able to spend a day; with my first client, LPGA Hall of Famer, Carol Mann. Carol was the ninth player ever inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame. The tournament was honoring the legend’s of women’s golf and she had accepted the invitation. [...]