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Coaching Youth Tennis (Fourth Edition)
from American Sport Education Program If you're a first-time or inexperienced youth tennis coach, Coaching Youth Tennis is your guidebook for a successful season. This new fourth edition offers you information every coach needs on coaching philosophy, communication and safety. It also provides you with step-by-step instructions for executing and teaching basic technical skills and the tactical aspects of singles and doubles tennis. The book includes practical content on coaching matches and developing season and practice plans that promotes tennis as a team sport. A convenient activity finder culls over 30 activities from the book into one section with page numbers for easy reference, while an expanded chapter on rules and equipment presents new youth modifications recently adopted by the USTA. The official handbook of USTA Jr. Team Tennis, Coaching Youth Tennis serves up coaching know-how that's sure to be a winner with you and your players. 2008. 174 pages.
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Winning Softball Drills - 4th Edition
by Dianne Baker, Texas Woman's University Head Coach, and Dr. Sandra S Cole THE ALL-TIME, #1 SELLING SOFTBALL BOOK! This book fulfills a need of many softball coaches for a working manual to help them produce drills quickly for all aspects of the game. The goals of the book are twofold: First, to help coaches get the most from their athletes during practice through the use of specific drills; Secondly, to help coaches produce organized and time-efficient practices. The book is now wire bound, which is designed to be rugged enough to be taken to practice each day and handy enough for you to have drills at your fingertips. 4th REPRINTING - 2005. 262 pages. ISBN 1-880138-00-X.
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The Fulfilling Ride: A Parent's Guide to Helping Athletes Have a Successful Sport Experience
by Greg Dale, Ph.D.; Associate Professor and Mental Training Coach at Duke UniversityParents play such an influential role in the experiences children have in sport. Whether you are the parent of a 6-year-old who is just beginning to participate in organized sport or an 18-year-old varsity athlete, you will find this book insightful and helpful. The Fulfilling Ride encourages you to examine your current role as a sport parent and provides you with practical strategies you can use to maximize your effectiveness in this very important role. 2005. 90 pages.
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101 Team Building Activities: Ideas Every Coach Can Use To Enhance Teamwork, Communication and Trust
by Greg Dale, Ph.D, Mental Training Coach, Duke University Have you ever wondered how top coaches take a group of individuals with differing personalities and blend them into a focused and unified team? Creating an environment where a group of athletes work effectively as a team is one of the biggest challenges a coach will face. The activities provided in this book have been used successfully with athletic teams at every level from Little League to the professional ranks. This book will provide you with a wide variety of fun, meaningful, and practical activities that will enhance teamwork, communication, trust, and overall team environment. Any coach interested in enhancing team dynamics will find this book to be a great addition to his or her library of coaching resources. 160 pages. 2004.
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Progressions for Coaching the Shot Put and Discus Throw
by Brett Halter, University of Missouri; USA Track and Field Development Coordinator for the junior men's shot putCoach Halter has been a student of the sport learning from some of the brightest most successful coaches in track and field, and has evolved into one of the most successful and respected throws coaches in the country himself. Halter's throwers have earned 20 All American awards, earned U.S. Olympics Trials qualifying spots four times and been members of four U.S. National teams. Included in this group is seven-time All American and IAAF World Indoor Champion Christian Cantwell, who recorded the longest throws in the world in 2004 both indoors and outdoors. Halter utilizes a conglomeration of theories to coach these events but the foundation of his methods is a thorough knowledge of the technical demands and training theory associated with each event. Progressions for Coaching the Shot Put and Discus Throw provides useful guidelines for developing athletes in each of these events, and coaches at all levels (men's and women's) will find it to be an excellent resource. 128 pages. 2006.
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