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MY FOCUS

My focus has never been on winning every game. My heart has always been on winning with every player. That doesn’t mean getting them to like me. My role is not to be their friend, but I can be friendly. My role is to be their coach. A teacher, leader, mentor, and cheerleader all rolled into one. My number one responsibility is to motivate the players to succeed at whatever we define success to be—to be one of their biggest cheerleaders and supporters, while also holding them accountable to themselves and the team. How you do that depends on you as the coach and where you’re going, but I have a formula you can follow that’s helped me in guiding teams in countless winning seasons and countless winning people. I developed the formula by observing my grandfather, a hall of fame coach, and observing and studying other successful and unsuccessful coaches and leaders.

Most recently, I implemented the formula over the past three years with the varsity boys’ soccer team at The Kings Academy. When I took over in 2016, we started our rise by defeating two teams in our district that we never beat in the history of our school. The two coaches both approached me afterwards to congratulate me—not necessarily on the win but on how different the team looked, how confident and motivated the boys seemed compared to previous years. We made it to the district final, and one of those coaches, whose team we beat again in the playoffs, told me he was voting for me for Coach of the Year.