1. Athlete Builder: Assistant Coach Reference Guide
Section 7 - Reference Guide: Coaching Responsibilities
Understanding Your Coaching Responsibilities
Awareness Development
You don’t know what you don’t know. Thinking you are anywhere close to being an
expert in all facets of your job or in life will be your single most limiting factor. View
what people say as a time to learn something you don’t know and stop trying to
prove to everyone what you do know or why your way is better. That’s the way of
the past.
Learn how to build a valuable and sustainable culture for your team. It’s about how
you do things more than what you are saying. If you have to change what you have
always done for the betterment of the team then it is your duty to do so.
Stress human development more than athletic development
Don’t talk too much on game day. If you didn’t get it across all week in practice it’s
too late now.
Try not to keep players and coaches more than 10 minutes after practice is over
just to hear yourself talk. They aren’t listening.
Learn how to properly teach weight room safety, technique, and create up to date
training programs specifically designed for your sport and the level you coach.
Grade Schools are much different than college. You should not be copying exactly
what they are doing. Their time constraints, ratios, ability, and age of athlete are
very different from yours. Your athletes are going to get stronger no matter what
you do because they are still growing. You must know this and learn how to crunch
data and make changes for this particular group of athletes.
Become an expert at functional movement training. Many athletes are strong in the
weight room but weak on the field, court, or in the pool. That’s because they don’t
know how to use their strength when they move. You should be focussed on this
and not focussed on how fast they can run around the cones! Gifted athletes that
put in good times still have a tremendous amount of improvement to be made in
this area. Coach to their level not everyone else’s. No child left behind has proven
not to work.
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2. Athlete Builder: Assistant Coach Reference Guide
Section 7 - Reference Guide: Coaching Responsibilities
Understanding Your Coaching Responsibilities (Continued)
Awareness Development
Be Super Organized!
Learn how to diagnose range of motion, balance, and strength problems in the
ligaments, tendons, and joints as you evaluate the performance of your athletes.
Provide exercises in these areas as well activating exercises for the sensory recep-
tors connecting muscle fibers to tendons (Rollers).
Consistently setting and tracking goals to monitor your athletes improvement is the
single most important way for you to ensure you know what’s happening with all of
your athletes. You have to use technology for this or it becomes too time intensive.
Learn how to be a better leader and train your athletes how to be leaders
Learn the ins and outs of social media and educate your athletes
Learn how the NCAA works so you can guide your athletes through the process.
You should become an expert in nutrition, hydration, and sleep and provide
recommendations for your athletes.
You should constantly work to learn more about how to inspire and motivate your
athletes
Understand Fitness Gram testing and reporting
Become an expert at sports specific instruction
The game is always changing. Be a student of X’s and O’s.
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