John McKissick. Head Football Coach Summerville High School. Photo courtesy of Arnie Jacob
Hard work and set goals. One thing that never changes in athletics is discipline. You need it to be successful. (more…)
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John McKissick is the Head Football Coach for Summerville High School in South Carolina. He has won 601 football games – more than any other football coach at any level: high school, college, and pro. Those 601 victories include 10 State Championships
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013Rick Jones has coached the Greenwood High School Football Team to the Arkansas AAAAA & AAAA State Championship five times since 2004
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Rick Jones. Picture courtesy of GreenwoodDogpound.com
One of our big beliefs is that we coach every kid every day in one form or another. Any coach can coach a great player… but it takes a great coach to take a guy that isn’t a player and turn him into a player. (more…)
Jeff Starkey has led St Henry High School in Ohio to six state championships and two runner-up finishes. They currently have about 500 boys in grades K-12. St Henry has developed four professional athletes.
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Leadership is accomplished by actions, not sitting back and waiting for things to happen. Leaders have to do it.
We don’t tell our players they have to play the game of their life to win a game. We just try to be prepared to do our best each and every game. – Coach Starkey (more…)
Coach Jeff Nelson of LaCrosse/Washtucna-Kahlotus High School in Washington has won five 8 Man Football State Championships
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
LaCrosse/Washtucna-Kahlotus 2009 High School Football Team
“Everything we do is a life lesson. That is what we’re doing. It just happens to be accomplished through a game. We’re preparing our players for life.” Coach Nelson (more…)
Head Football Coach Greg Dempsey of Toledo Central Catholic in Ohio states, “I think you just have to take it one day at a time, one game at a time, to win a state championship.”
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
"...we give our students a calendar including the state playoffs and championship game. The players see the expectations and begin working to achieve it." - Coach Dempsey
Still, they always had the dream of being champions, but that’s all it really was…just a dream. But when we started putting a plan in place to achieve that dream, it became an achievable goal and progress snowballed from there. (more…)
Head Football Coach Kenny Guillot from Lousiana shares, “A sports-writer asked me if I thought we could win the state championship and I told him I hadn’t thought about it. But the next year, we won it!” Read to find out how they did it.
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
When it comes to athletes unable to make summer workouts, coach Guillot shares: "The kids know what's expected. And they lay it on the line for us. So we are certainly going to try and work with them also." - Coach Guillot
“One of the reasons we pack our stadium is because the kids in the school, teachers, and community like our football players because they’re not a bunch of jerks. They are well-rounded, nice, hard working kids.” – Coach Guillot (more…)
Coach Scooter Molander of Brophy College Preparatory in Arizona sets the directive, “Don’t spend time, Invest time.” Be completely in the moment, attack everything that you do with passion, intensity, concentration, and live fully in the moment. Develop the ability to put first things first.
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Head Football Coach Scooter Molander of Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. Picture taken from www.BrophyFootball.org at http://www.brophyfootball.org/scooter.html
But when you are working with others – your focus needs to be on others first! So when you are resting from a sprint you are encouraging others, reminding them of proper technique… The idea is when you are not doing the rep or the activity then your complete focus is on your partner, your teammate, not on your own discomfort or pain. – Coach Molander (more…)
Coach Joey McGuire of Cedar Hill High School in Texas shares about developing players physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
I honestly believe this generation of young people is missing things that the previous generations possessed that made this country great. My grandfather was the hardest working man I ever met, and my dad was the same way. When times were tough they persevered with a great attitude.
“When we go into our off-season we train five days a week. But only four of those are physical. The fifth day is our “Character Day”. On that day we go over responsibility, attitude, and goal-setting.” (more…)
Coach Brad Anderson of Wayzata High School in Minnesota shares about players having the courage and discipline to follow their dreams
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Good teams have more leaders than just the captains. All of our successful teams have had a strong senior class. To develop that leadership we put players in positions where they have to lead a group in order to be successful.
“There are players out there that could probably compete at the highest level but don’t because they won’t work. I don’t care how gifted you are, you will not reach the highest level because you’re a great athlete. You have to perform and execute at the highest level. To do that, you have to work at it, it doesn’t come naturally.” (more…)
Head Football Coach Todd Kusko of St Rita High School in Illinois shares about giving captains and other seniors the responsibility of running weight-lifting to give them ownership of their team
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Drive, Determination, and Focus will give you the strength to fall forward and get up when you've been knocked down
“…when they know they own the team, they take responsibility for leading it. It’s their team.” (more…)