Coaching Sports

Whether you're coaching flag football, running school PE, or helping your kid learn the basics, Football Drills That Dominate delivers everything you need to teach real football skills with confidence — even if it's your first time coaching. Built for kids ages 7 to 12, this audiobook gives you step-by-step drills, simplified plays, and youth-focused coaching tips that work in real-life practices, backyards, and game-day huddles.

Ace Your Game: The Complete Player’s Guide to Mastering Tennis by CIN Entertainment is the ultimate tennis training handbook for players of all skill levels. Whether you’re a beginner learning the basics or an advanced competitor refining your strategy, this all-in-one tennis guide covers everything you need to elevate your game.

The Players' Coach is a player-development masterclass. It is also an inspirational life story, from humble beginnings to becoming the quarterback for the University of Iowa, a college coaching career, and then to assistant-coach and offensive-coordinator roles in six different decades. This book is destined to be a football classic, a coaching Bible, and a must-listen on leadership.

From the legendary Oklahoma coach, a candid and inspiring memoir. When Bob Stoops took over as football coach in 1999, the Oklahoma Sooners were in disarray with back-to-back losing seasons. But in just two years' time, Stoops achieved the seemingly impossible: winning a national championship...

If your organization is not performing at its best, this book is for you. It puts you right into the shoes of the leaders of the great baseball dynasties and demonstrates how they overcame challenges common to those in our own teams and groups. Topics include managing and motivating highly talented but dysfunctional individuals, turning around careers that have stalled late in life, better understanding the practical benefits of diversity and inclusion, and inspiring individuals to find their best within the context of their teams.

Do you want to know the best to do AAU basketball? This book holds the answers to all of your questions about the new world of AAU basketball. Inside its chapters are step-by-step directions on how to navigate the AAU basketball landscape successfully for you and your young player.

A player who could hardly defend. A bleak soccer future as a bench-warmer. An athlete who lacked confidence in their game. Are you or a loved one enjoying soccer, but can’t stand not being confident on how to defend? Do you or a child have a problem stopping the team from shooting? Are you a parent or player that would love to stop the dribble of each opponent, but struggle even stopping the foot skills of one player? If any of these situations describe you, you are not alone. Coaches of soccer are good at having the team work together. Sadly, your abilities as an individual are often lost in the team’s tactics unless you are the star player on the team. The coach lets the best player do as they please but every other player must do their job, even though the coach may not always teach exactly how to do that job.

Every year, more than 3.5 million children under age 15 require medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which are the result of simple overuse. Journalist Mark Hyman investigates the evolution of youth sports from mere games to full-on quests to turn children into tomorrow's superstar athletes by pushing them beyond physical and emotional limits. Opening up a crucial discussion about the perils of youth-sports culture today, Hyman offers the solutions and answers we need.

The Sports Parents Solution gives you the strategies and methods you need to transform the parent culture in your team, allowing you to better support each athlete’s growth, improve your team’s performance, create an extraordinary experience for all involved—and take your program to a whole new level.

In the book The 3 Sinister Truths of Coaching Sports Today - and What You Can Do About Them, you'll learn how to build a support network that will be there for you when times are tough, answering your questions and giving you guidance. You'll discover how to appreciate your position and those around you, and in turn be more appreciated for the job you do. And you'll understand how to create your own system of professional development.

Happy Feet is the ultimate resource for soccer parents. Written by best-selling author, Dan Blank, it will give you a better understanding of the game, its rules and terminology. This remarkable book includes links to seven excellent videos that help explain soccer's more mysterious concepts such as offside, the advantage rule and systems of play. By the end of Section 1, parents with no soccer background will have a working vocabulary of this strange sport and an understanding of all its moving pieces.

The definitive guide to the real men of the gridiron: NFL tight ends. There is no profession in sports like the NFL tight end. None. You must mash 320-pound defensive ends in the run game. You must twist your torso at impossible angles to make acrobatic catches downfield in the pass game. You...

The Coaching Dance is the essential next step for practicing coaches ready to move beyond foundational techniques and facilitate profound, lasting change. This book delves into the sophisticated artistry of coaching, providing a masterclass in navigating the complex human dynamics that underlie true transformation.

Welcome to Jerryworld and an all-access pass to the most valuable sports franchise on the planet, the Dallas Cowboys. Many books have been written about the Cowboys, but there's never been an account like this one. How 'Bout Them Cowboys tells the story of the NFL's most successful franchise...

Beyond the Skills and Drills: The Keys to Successfully Coaching Youth Sports is a how-to book. That is, how do volunteer coaches create the best possible sporting experience for our kids? This book redefines the term coach and looks at youth coaching from a teaching perspective. Bill addresses the pre-season, in-season, and post-season activities necessary to create the best hours of a child's week. Every youth coach in America needs to listen to and absorb this book.

Meet John Richardson, a typical weekend golfer who enjoys the game but can’t break 100. But Richardson differs from the average 24-handicapper in one crucial way. He’s determined to break par within a year at the local golf course while working in a demanding full-time job and trying his best to remain a good husband and father. Famed Scottish golfer/commentator Sam Torrance advises John to “dream on” and PGA Tour pro Darren Clarke tells him that three years would be a more realistic time frame.

Beth Launiere and Leo Hopf have performed at the highest levels in their respective fields for more than 30 years. Beth has been the head volleyball coach at the University of Utah and is coming off of being named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year and reaching the NCAA Division One Sweet Sixteen. Leo is a management consultant who has advised the world’s most dynamic and complex organizations on their strategies, decision making, and organizational effectiveness.

Unleash your strength: Build unshakable confidence and thrive in sports—even when the odds feel stacked against you. Ever feel like you have to work twice as hard just to be taken seriously? Do expectations, comparisons, and bias leave you questioning your place in the game? Have you wondered how top female athletes stay resilient and confident under pressure? Created for female athletes, The Confident Competitor gives you tools and mindset shifts to rise above doubt, silence your critic, and compete with power.

The Coach's Canvas is the definitive guide for coaches who are ready to move beyond the fundamentals and build a practice that is both prosperous and sustainable. This book moves past theory to provide a masterclass in the business, marketing, and personal development skills essential for long-term success. You'll learn how to define a powerful niche, design signature programs that sell, master the art of the discovery call, and build marketing strategies that attract ideal clients with authenticity.

Are you new to basketball or have never coached a youth team before? Are you unsure of what to do during practice or how to manage a team during a game? Are you dealing with a loudmouth parent on your team that is a bad example of sportsmanship? 50 Things to Know About Coaching Youth Basketball by Aaron Reynolds offers an approach to coaching youth sports for first-time coaches, or parents new to the game that were “volunteered” to lead the team.