Seth Ware

Asst. Track & Field Coach (Sprints/Hurdles/Combined Events) Trine University, USATF Level 2 - Sprints/Hurdles/Relays & Jumps, USTFCCCA Strength & Conditioning

[Travis Miller @travismillerx13]

🇺🇸JA'KOBE THARP RUNS WIND LEGAL 12.75 110mH WORLD RECORD! �

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Coach Matt Campbell (@CoachMC_PSU) teaches a clinic here on culture, leadership, and the importance of your organization knowing how and why you do things:

🧫 "Culture is how you live, not what you say." Culture is behavior, not branding. It's not what hangs on the walls, it's what walks the halls! Your team will rarely become what you preach, but it will almost always become what you consistently tolerate, reinforce, and model.

🚂 Communication is the transportation system of leadership. A good leadership train turns complex into simple, digestible, and actionable instructions. Talent, effort, and good intentions can't move very far if the tracks aren't in place or if information isn't flowing like a train. The speed and quality of your communication often determine the speed and quality of your results.

🍓 People can go further when they understand the why behind the what and the how behind the habit. You feel more connected to the outcomes if you know the value of the fruit you're farming. That understanding creates ownership.

The culture at @PennStateFball is being built through relationships, reinforced through standards, and sustained where people understand why their actions matter. 🏗️

[Philip Redrick @KingRedrick]

Go where YOU are WANTED.
Go where YOU are VALUED.
Go where YOU are COMMITTED to.
Go where You are DEVELOPED.
Go where You are more than just a NUMBER

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"Character is something you can only get when you experience the things that you do not want."

Great athletes are not only shaped by what they achieve.
They are shaped by what they survive, learn from, and keep showing up for.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Curt Cignetti shares a universal truth about habits and consequences.

"In life - you got freedom of choice, but not freedom of consequence."

"First you form your habits, then your habits form you."

Every choice and action you take compounds. The small decisions you make daily - preparation, work ethic, and how you respond - those become your habits.

And over time, those habits become your identity.

You're free to choose. But the consequences of those choices aren't optional.

Your habits are shaping who you become.
(🎥IU Athletics )

[Sports Psychology @SportPsychTips]

Great athletes don't talk about how great they are. They just show up, work hard, and remain humble.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Arrogance sits on insecurity. Confidence sits on experience.

The loudest voices in any room — the brashest athletes, the trash-talking executives — are usually the most insecure.

True confidence comes from having the security to take the step forward knowing you might fail.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Competitive character is not “wanting to win.”

Everybody wants to win.

It’s whether your habits get sharper when you’re frustrated. Whether you can take hard coaching without making it personal. Whether you stop negotiating with the standard the second it gets uncomfortable.

Pressure doesn’t build character.
It audits it.

[Seth Ware @CoachSethWare]

Today’s the day donate to @TrineXCTF at this link: https://t.co/Mkzk8qNIxn

[Coach Jeff Barnes @JeffBarnes52]

As an AD, I remind my coaches if your top athlete’s lack of effort is negatively impacting the team more than their ability is contributing, it is time to make a change. Effort is non negotiable. Holding that standard will elevate your team, reinforce your culture, and send a clear message about expectations.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"Bad habits have a cost.
Good habits have a price.
Either way you have to pay.
The meaningful things- we pay for before.
The foolish things- we pay for after."

Winners pay upfront (sacrifice, effort, discipline).
Everyone else pays later (regret).
That’s the difference.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... NOBODY reminds anyone of the standards.

𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... COACHES remind the team of the standards.

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... PLAYERS remind the team of the standards.

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... EVERYONE reminds each other of the standards

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“First you form your habits and then your habits form you. Life’s all about habits, choices and decisions. When you’ve got the right habits you tend to make better choices and decisions,” Curt Cignetti

Consistent habits turn high performance standards into character.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

The best thing you'll listen to today is Utah Jazz Head Coach Will Hardy talking about the tax of being a leader:

🏋 Leadership is not a position you hold—it’s a responsibility you carry. The weight isn’t in the title, it’s in the people who trust you with their time, energy, and belief.

📊 Before metrics, before outcomes, before strategy—there are humans. Leadership is a human-to-human commitment to see, serve, and develop the people in front of you.

✊ There is a tax on leadership. And it's paid in consistency, in hard conversations, in choosing standards over comfort. You don’t get to clock out from being the example!

The cost is of being the head coach is real... but so is the impact on every life you’re responsible for. 🌱⏩🌳

[Coach Wallace @FrankJWallace2]

The hardest thing for some athletes to accept:

You have to become a different athlete than you were in high school.

Same work = same results
(or worse)

Growth requires change and adaptation.
Not comfort. Buy in, even the greats have coaches.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Curt Cignetti on his program's philosophy on how not to be average:

🎭 Average is a decision disguised as a default. Make standards visible, measurable, and non-negotiable. Because what you tolerate becomes your identity.

🤝 Most people negotiate with the work; elite teams eliminate the negotiation. The gap isn’t talent, it’s the daily refusal to accept “good enough” in reps, details, and accountability.

🧱 You don’t rise above average in big moments, you escape it in small ones. Every meeting, drill, and conversation is either reinforcing the standard, or quietly lowering it.

[J.T. Ayers 🇺🇸 @CoachJTAyers]

TRACK ATHLETE: Pressure feels like a threat, but it's not.

You feel pressure when your decisions matter, and people depend on you. It can feel uncomfortable at times, but it's also a privilege.

When no one relies on you — when no one expects something from you — you're irrelevant.

Pressure is a privilege.
@shaneparrish

[Coach Jeff Barnes @JeffBarnes52]

As an AD, I constantly remind our coaches what a captain really is. It is not always your best player, even though that is the ideal. It is the player who lives out your program’s culture every single day. The one who holds teammates accountable, shows up and works, puts the team first, and does the little things right when no one is watching.

A captain is not just a talented kid who makes plays. It is the standard everyone else should follow.

[Coach Cam Jones @Coach_Cam_Jones]

“Administrations win championships. Coaches win games… if you’re not totally into it and they’re not committed, you’re not winning. You just can’t.”

True at the high school level as well…
https://t.co/iZQ3cnnXjD

[Reid Ouse @reidouse]

The most toxic person in a program isn't the complainer. It's the talented player with a mediocre work ethic that everyone else starts to emulate.