Joey Anders worries that his own golf game is nothing to brag about. The former college player spends so much time experimenting with different swings and techniques to help the young people he coaches that he said, “There is no me swing anymore.”
Category Archives: Extraordinary Coaches
A Football Coach Who Inspires and Motivates
A lot of boys (and men) spend years dreaming about suiting up and playing football at Cowboys Stadium. Dan Novakov’s team had their dreams come true early.
Ursuline Academy Soccer Coach Leads with Service
Every student at Ursuline Academy pledges a commitment to Serviam – Latin for “I will serve.”
So Jamie Cantrell, the varsity soccer coach for nine years, argues, “I’m not doing anything that anyone else doesn’t.”
Her Ursuline colleagues disagree.
Meet Cyndi Murchison
Cyndi Murchison decided she wanted to work with people who have physical and mental disabilities when she and Alissa Garrett became friends at the Park Cities YMCA.
Then a student at Highland Park High School, Garrett has autism. She would not look people in the eye. She did not like being touched.
Meet Rex Cotten, Baseball Mentor
A Passion for Teaching Baseball
Rex Cotten was an average Little League player, but he loved baseball and has worked to help his own sons and now the sons of others become as good a ball player as each can be.
Meet HPHS Football Coach Randy Allen
300+ wins. Numerous championships. Two books. Accolades aplenty.
Ask Highland Park High School football coach Randy Allen what he enjoys most about his job, and he starts talking about the people who made an impression on him when he was a young boy suiting up to play the game that became his lifelong passion.
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Ches Hudel Teaches from the Heart
Everyone is an Athlete
When Ches Hudel was a college student, she volunteered to help a child with cerebral palsy learn to swim. One day when another boy stood at the fence, watching her teaching in the pool, she asked her student who the boy was. He told her it was his twin brother who did not have CP.
“It got my heart,” she said.
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Rick Carlisle, Positive About Attitude
Mavs Coach Rick Carlisle wears purple to support the Pan-Can Network.
Coaches know, whether they’re hanging out in the pee wee leagues or winning national championships, the key to going from good to great is often more dependent on brain strength than muscle strength.
For NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks Coach Rick Carlisle, the power of the positive attitude helps fuel a team challenged with repeating last year’s historic success. “In the locker room at the AAC we have a poster that lists four characteristics we know to be very beneficial to creating a successful team. They are also critical in any number of situations we come across in life. The attributes are; Belief, Commitment, Tough-mindedness and Unselfishness. Players are reminded daily that what’s on the mind is usually what comes across on the court,” says Carlisle.
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