Play Like a Champion

Human Kinetics Coach Education is pleased to offer our coaching resources to Play Like a Champion coaches. Many of the resources available through this portal page - including articles, excerpts, and webinar recordings - are available free of charge. We encourage you to download and share them with coaches and administrators in your sport programs. 

Coach Doc Connection articles by Dr. Wade Gilbert

• Developing Good Teammates
• Teaching Athletes About Winning It All
• Become a More Resilient Coach
• Busting a Culture of Athlete Entitlement
• Keys to Creating a Winning Environment
• Coaching in Emotional Control
• Social Media Guidelines for Athletes
• Establishing Athlete Behavior Standards
• Championship Coaching Starts with Relationship Building
• Coaching for Sustainable Excellence
• Finding and Building Coachable Athletes
• Defining Success and Handling Failure
• Coaching in the Background

Webinar recordings 

• Coaching Your Best in Competitions
• Coaching Athletes to Perform at Their Mental Peak
• Cultivating Mutual Trust and Cohesion on Teams
• Putting Athletes' Interests First for More Powerful Coaching
• Demonstrating Core Values and Clear Purpose in Coaching

Book excerpts

• Respect for the game fosters sportsmanship
  From Sport and Character: Reclaiming the Spirit of Sportsmanship, by Craig Clifford and Randolph Feezell
• Authority and responsibility come with being a coach
  From Sport and Character: Reclaiming the Spirit of Sportsmanship, by Craig Clifford and Randolph Feezell
• Why respect teammates and team?
  From Sport and Character: Reclaiming the Spirit of Sportsmanship, by Craig Clifford and Randolph Feezell
• Respect Between Players and Coach
  From Sport and Character: Reclaiming the Spirit of Sportsmanship, by Craig Clifford and Randolph Feezell
• Bullying and Hazing
  From Successful Coaching, by Rainer Martens  

 Books

• Coaching Better Every Season, by Wade Gilbert
• Successful Coaching, by Rainer Martens
• Sport First Aid, by Melinda Flegel
• Sport and Character: Reclaiming the Spirit of Sportsmanship, by Craig Clifford and Randolph Feezell 
• Long-Term Athlete Development, by Istvan Balyi, Richard Way, and Colin Higgs 
• Sport Psychology for Coaches, by Damon Burton and Thomas Raedeke

Courses

• Coaching Principles
• Coaching Orientation
• Sport First Aid 
• Complete catalog of coaching courses