I may have just been a country boy playing ball in small-town East Texas, but my coaches taught us the handshake was never about pretending to like everybody. It was about self-control, humility, and respect for the game.
That is still what our @LongviewISD coaches and teachers expect from student-athletes: compete hard, win with class, lose with dignity, and conduct yourself with honor.
And if they forget... well... there may be laps involved.
Civilization has always needed reminders.
Lifting heavy weights MIGHT make you slow if you ONLY lift heavy weight for years on end.
But that’s not what we do.
We lift heavy. We lift fast. We jump. We bound. We skip. We sprint. We do it all.
These are two of New York State fastest high school athletes, NOT being slow because they lift heavy.
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University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson with an in-season worthy smackdown of the trend of individual workout coaches that so many players rely on these days. "If you're playing in a one on zero tournament, I think you'd be pretty good. The problem is we play five on five."
If your child struggles to do 10 push ups and can’t do a good bodyweight squat, that extra sports camp/skills session should take a back seat for now.
Build a better motor and get more out of your youth athlete.
Every HC will tell you the key to a good job is supportive Admin.
So why would an Admin team choose to not support the coaches that they hired?
Outside of losing, not being a good coach/person, one of the highest factors for coaches to be fired/resign is “Admin wasn’t supportive”