Coaches
“A good coach can change a game.
A great coach can change a life."
– John Wooden
Welcome to the SportsLog website.
Please feel free to look around the site. Refer your players if you feel it is helpful. Give suggestions to us at questions@sportslogapp.com.
One suggestion is to have a Team Handbook (or “Playbook”):
On a team, there are frequently large gaps in knowledge.
Whether freshmen versus seniors, fifth graders with different knowledge, or first time players with veteran teammates.
The only sport that seems to issue a playbook is football, but every sport could benefit from a playbook / handbook.
A handbook gives everyone on the team:
The same knowledge base (catch up young/new players)
Same vocabulary
Same philosophy
Critical teaching points can be communicated more clearly in pictures and diagrams than by inconsistent and fragmented teaching of concepts to players that don't know the language and don't understand.
At the very least, handouts can give you extra teaching time and get all the kids on the same page - plays, positions, skills
A helpful website - Coaches Insider – Helping coaches learn, prepare, and excel