Anatomy of a Teammate 🏆👑

Published: Fri, 08/04/17

 
Team - A number of people organized to function cooperatively as a group
Teammate - A partner
Selflessness - Putting other people's needs, interests, or wishes before your own​​​​​​​
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I'm going to keep this post short and sweet because I want you to spend 7 minutes watching this video instead of reading a post. 

I met Patrick Murphy, the coach of Alabama softball, at a recent conference. He told a story about calling timeout in a key situation, walking up to the girl he was coaching, putting his arm around her, and saying 'I am going to love you no matter what the result of this at-bat is.'

The core value you will see plastered all over their facility is: 
PERSON
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ATHLETE

​​​​​​​Person over athlete. That is the type of people Coach Murphy is developing, and it is contagious.

​​​​​​​Watch the video and see how this attitude has permeated into Brittany.


Next seek we'll investigate the idea of an emerging leader group and look at 2 rules captains.
 
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WYC 125 - Leadership Expert Jamy Bechler
Excited on Monday to release episode #125 (wow that's gone fast!) with leadership expert Jamy Bechler! Jamy brings 20+ years of coaching and athletic administration experience and now travels across the nation training organizations on leadership. You won't want to miss this one! 
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Craig Haworth is the founder of Winning Youth Coaching, a site dedicated to helping coaches and parents make youth sports an awesome experience for the youth and the parents.  He interviews coaches from around the world and posts them on his podcast, which currently has over 120 interviews and has been downloaded over 195,000 times. He writes a weekly note to coaches and parents. He is married to his high-school sweetheart and they share the blessing of 3 children and live in Franklin, TN. You can sign-up for his weekly note here, find him on twitter at @craighaworth1, or visit his website winningyouthcoaching.com.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"
- Frederick Douglass
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