Submitted on April 27, 2012 - 11:05am
When I first became a head football coach I soon realized that coaching football fundamentals and schemes was a small part of coaching. The other part was the need to teach life lessons, values, and counsel these young men in times of crises. I came up with many ways to accomplish this and many were very successful but very hard to continue. I searched lessons on the internet, bought books, had daily quotes, had special speakers but never had a set curriculum to follow.
Submitted on April 9, 2012 - 11:23am
Lou,
I wanted to thank you for introducing our wrestling team to the virtue formation program.
The St. Xavier wrestlers, parents, coaches and community really appreciate the unique benefits of the Sports Leader Virtue Program. This season you could see the positive impact, on the mat and off. We always look at athletics as an extension of the classroom. Wrestling provides opportunities to assist young men in their formation as sons, leaders and some day, fathers and husbands.
Submitted on April 4, 2012 - 10:49am
Here is a tremendous testimony written by a former player ... this is a number of years after his experience. You can see how much of an impact his coaches made.
Submitted on March 14, 2012 - 1:04pm
Here below is a testimony from Mike Key the AD and Boys Head Basketball Coach at Lloyd Memorial High School in Erlanger KY. They have been with SportsLeader for two seasons now and this year they had a tremendous turnaround and a District Championship title for the first time in 13 years beating a school about 4 times their size which is a short bike ride away.
Submitted on March 7, 2012 - 1:27pm
Coach Dan Duddy of Monsignor Donovan High School in New Jersey has been a part of the SportsLeader association for many years now as a head coach but something special happened this past summer.
The local Pastor of his Church was so excited about what was going on in Dan's football program that he invited him to work full time in the school as the Pastoral Minister of Athletics bringing the virtue program to all sports at all levels.
Submitted on February 17, 2012 - 3:20pm
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Submitted on February 15, 2012 - 2:24pm
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Submitted on November 29, 2011 - 8:34am
Submitted on October 12, 2011 - 6:06am
Here is some very encouraging feedback from Mrs. JoAnn D'Anton, the media arts and MDTV director at Monsignor Donovan High School in Toms River NJ.
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Submitted on October 9, 2011 - 6:25am
Helping kids know, value, live and transmit virtue using the platform of sports. This is is what SportsLeader is all about.
Thank you, Coach Mike Bickerman, for sharing.
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Stoney Haines
Rushville-Industry High School, IL
October 6, 2011
In our football season this year we have been participating in the SportsLeader program.
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