Coaches want talent plus high potential, not an already-reached peak. An athlete has to want to be better and have shown that by the way they approach practicing, academics, and all other areas in their life, not just when the game is on the line. Regardless of title, coaches want to know how an athlete responds to difficult game situations when they are both playing and on the bench. Or do they remain vocal and act as a rallying point for the rest of the team? Leadership goes beyond just the context of game, too.
No one can better attest to any of the above or answer the tough questions about an athlete than their high school or club coach. In addition to tatent, grades, and how an athlete responds to adversity, hundreds of other little cues go into evaluating and making a decision on a high school prospect: are they ever late to practice or team meetings?
If so, is it because they are seeking academic help or involved in another activity? Have they ever asked what they can do on their own to improve? Do they balance sport and school well, perhaps by doing homework on the team bus? Are they dedicated to taking care of their bodies through proper nutrition and mobility work? How is their attitude toward critique and feedback from coaches? For many athletes, being able to sign the bottom line of a Letter of Intent comes down to a bigger bottom line: earning praise and a recommendation from their current or previous coaches.
Team USA wheelchair basketball player, paralympian, and true sport athlete. Today, I want to talk to you about goal setting. And there are three things that I would like you to know. First, successful athletes set goals and a planned roadmap. Second, goals should be written down, assessed over time, and changed if necessary. And third, goals need to be challenging in order to be worthwhile. As a freshmen at Edinboro University, I was a part of a team that made the national championship game.
And at that time I recognized I was the low man on the totem pole, but I felt in my heart that I knew my dreams were so much bigger than winning a national title. I wanted to make Team USA. I knew what achieving my lofty goal was not going to be easy and that I would need to work hard every day. So, as a reminder, I created a pyramid of goals that I kept right above my bed.
This pyramid reminded me of the accomplishments that I was working towards and visually represented my need to create a solid foundation underneath me before reaching the top. The middle row listed winning a national title and playing for a professional team.
And at the top row, the most challenging of them all, I listed becoming a gold medalist for Team USA. By understanding that there are smaller stepping stones to achieving my ultimate goal of being on Team USA, I was able to stay motivated and to stay focused on completing the smaller stepping stones fully before moving onto the next one.
Remember, create a clear goal roadmap, assess your goals often, and continue to challenge yourself. I hope that you never stopped dreaming big or reaching for the stars. And I look forward to seeing where your roadmap takes you.
First, healthy thoughts often lead to healthier bodies. And third, true beauty goes deeper than the skin. My coaches and I adapt to my training frequently, all with the goal of supporting my long-term success and health in the sport of javelin.
In the lead up to the Olympic trials, I was told in order to improve my performance on the field, I should try to become a leaner, skinnier version of myself. So I changed my diet.
And I believe becoming leaner than my body naturally wanted to be was what caused my ACL to tear. In the end, it cost me heavily going into the London games. You should do your research and experiment with your diet to find what makes you feel the best, rather than focusing on what you look like. Today, if I feel like having a chocolate chip cookie, I have one, just not every day. I hydrate and allow myself time to recover. Coaches want to use their camps to get a feel for where the player is strength-wise, not make a final determination.
When putting a prospect through drills, a coach will give him instructions and evaluate how the prospect receives them. Does the prospect do as he is told immediately or does he continue to use techniques that the coach tells him not to use?
Coaches want prospects who are coachable and who want to learn as much as they can to master their craft. A hot-shot quarterback can come to a camp feeling his drop-back footwork is fine, but a coach may see that his base is too wide. How the quarterback receives the coaching and instruction and applies it to his reps as the camp moves forward will show if he is coachable or not. It also could be a key factor if a program wants him to join them or not.
All camps have some sort of competitive part to them, as 7-on-7 games, 1-on-1 drills, quarterback competitions, athletic testing, timing and more. A prospect must show he is a competitor at a camp.
If a lineman loses a 1-on-1 battle, does he sulk and quit or does he demand a rematch? If a quarterback loses an arm strength drill, he must comeback and compete hard in the accuracy competition.
Football is competitive all the time and if a coach notices that a prospect is not a fierce competitor, he will be concerned. Camps also give coaches an outstanding platform to see how a player carries himself on the field and interacts with others. Coaches also get a good feel for a prospect's personality. Seeing if a prospect is most comfortable when he can talk trash, be vocal and brash or if he rarely speaks and has a shy personality can be observed at camps.
A quarterback who is not assertive and is quiet may be of concern to a coach, as the position requires a confident personality. Prospects must show off their on-field demeanor at camps to give coaches a glimpse of how they act during games.
Enjoy our content? Better athletes that are properly trained will keep their heels down and claw their feet on a squat. Art Kehoe used to literally carry a resistance band around with him and force players to squat and overhead squat the resistance band in front of him. When evaluating the OL, Coach Orgeron was looking for toughness, tenacity and flexibility first and foremost.
Coach Kehoe was looking for the player to coil almost like a baseball swing regarding the hip explosion and explosion into a defender. Kehoe wanted maulers, but also guys with agility and some upside.
For certain schemes and positions that size can vary. At the college level most would agree that long and athletic tackles with basketball skills are a must to slow down the athletic defensive ends and edge rushing linebackers of the modern era.
Those ends have gotten more and more athletic as run-pass options and read option plays have put defenders in more and more post-snap conflict. Orgeron is a firm believe in competition, and focusing on technique later.
Just ask LeCharles Bentley. Just take the difference between an undersized Chris Myers or the mammoth Seantrel Henderson. Bentley reteaches the stance, and the block itself. Where Kehoe loved the squat rack and resistance band test, Orgeron loved putting the offensive and defensive linemen through the hoop drill.
To Orgeron, two guys chasing through the hoops shows flexibility, stability and balance. But if done right, it can truly show who is the toughest, grittiest, nastiest guy at the camp with the resiliency to keep fighting. The priority for the three sub-groups of the O-Line? A Power 5 Assistant Coach evaluates to eliminate some of the baseline issues before a player even has their film popped in.
Bend: Lower body flexibility, can he bend in his stance with his feet in the ground? Hip flexion, ankle flexion, can comfortably squat into the hole with his feet flat in the ground. Power angles ankle, knee, hip. Power: Can he get his second step in the ground quickly and generate power? Does he play with leverage? Can he unlock and explode through his hips?
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