Coaching Books

I've coached little league for many years with great success but the game on the bigger diamond (13 yr olds and above) is much more complicated. This book is outstanding in that it is packed with practical information for coaches. I especially appreciate the fact that the author is able to substantiate his advice with probability and statistics.

I played competitive baseball from the age of five through college. I am an avid reader, and own many books about baseball, baseball players, and baseball techniques. As a first year high school coach, I purchased several books to help me develop a good program. This books is a must have. It was my favorite. It is all it says and then some. I highly recommend this book!

Randy Gregg's Drill Solutions book should be an essential resource for any coach. The drills are well illustrated with large easy to follow pictures and instructions. Many variations of each drill are presented. This book will help you plan a practice or develop a season's strategy. If you just need a new drill or two for practice, pick up Randy's book. Randy Gregg's Drill Solutions is an invaluable tool for keeping practices "fresh" and "fun".

Paul Dziedzic - Valley of the Sun Hockey Association Travel Coach - Certified USA Hockey Referee

Randy Gregg's book is a must read for any new or experienced hockey coach. Randy teaches the technical aspects of the game with a progressive method to improve skills.

The Physical Game section outlines excellent pregame and postgame strategies; and offers tremendous illustrations on how to improve hockey fitness levels.

The Mental Game provides insights into coaching philosophies and mental preparation.

Dr Gregg most importantly, offers many real life NHL lessons that remind every coach that their number one goal in every game and practice is to have FUN!

Paul Dziedzic-Valley of the Sun Hockey Association Travel Coach-Certified USA Hockey Referee

Hockey Drill Book. The title says it all. The book is laid out very well. It opens with warm up and skating drills. Then the book moves to stick handling to passing to shooting. It continues with conditioning, goaltending, checking, situations and finishes with practice.

The nice part about the book is that each drill has an illustration with a description of how to perform it. Each drill also contains an explanation of the purpose, tempo and who can participate. Another nice feature is the variations section, which offers an idea of a different approach to the drill.

This is a great book for beginning coaches as well as more seasoned coaches looking for something different. This book will help your confidence as a coach and help your team move to the next level.

Joseph's clarity and comprehensive approach make his books a joy to read. He has a gift for communicating complex concepts and very large ideas with ease and grace. No doubt, a great contribution to the field of coaching.

I was introduced to this amazing book when Pat Williams talked about Coach Wooden at the end of a day long product seminar for Merrill Lynch Financial Advisors. If you ever have a chance to see Pat, he is one of the most intelligent, to-the-point and engaging motivational speakers I've ever seen. My only criticism of his inspiring book is the title: it would have been much simpler to call it "The Coach Wooden Catechism."

For Pat Williams fans, this is one of seven books in his "How To Be Like" series, which profile the virtuous characteristics of winners. A scholar and a gentleman, Coach Wooden himself got it right when he humbly stated, "I'm just an English teacher. Shouldn't I be writing a book about Pat Williams?"

Each chapter expands on the virtues that made Wooden the greatest basketball coach of the 20th Century. So, `if you want to be like Coach Wooden,' be a person of character, love God, love your family and other people. If you want to build knowledge and wisdom like Coach did, strive to be a teacher, learn from the good example of others, and read good books, lots of them. If you want to build winner teams like Coach, work hard to be a team player, be a leader, be disciplined and patient. If you want to be happy in life, strive for humility, master the `little things', keep things simple, be honest with yourself, and remember that in life, we reap what we sow.

Interspersed under each of these chapters are the testimonials of hundreds of sports legends offering their personal observations of the greatness Coach Wooden exemplifies. Where Williams and his co-author David Wimbish deserve great credit is the skill they demonstrate in weaving together these accolades and facts. Williams spoke to over 800 people to prepare this book. In spite of mountain of source material he accumulated, this book is a quick and impressive read. There are dozens of books about Coach Wooden, and many of them are excellent. As the parent of four basketball crazy boys, I strongly recommend this inspiring book for young adults and athletes in any sport.

I am coaching my son's U10 soccer team and found this book to be very useful. It offers numerous training exercises to address almost every phase of the game. These include simple to understand diagrams as well as coaching points to discuss with the players. It also offers an appendix on which drills to work on with your team to solve problems.

Out of the two dozen books I took out of the library, this was the one I bought and carry with me.

Teachers and college-level education courses will find refreshing an excellent a survey of coaching techniques in Bonnie M. Davis' How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You, which encourages teachers to write about and discuss their practices. Coaches can use literacy strategies to train across content areas and improve learning styles: her samples of teaching writing and student work come from such coaching and provides specifics from coaches across the country to show how coaching interacts with and works in the education world. An essential teacher's guide to growth and understanding - and flexibility - builds applied techniques for the real world classroom.

This book is not for the feint of heart or mind. Reading this book is like taking a Masters Course of study in the sport of gymnastics. It reads like a text book, so get out your highlighters and pencils because you will take notes. On top of it sometimes you have to translate British to American. The book is most definately a masterpiece of knowledge. Anyone that takes thier gymnastics coaching seriously needs to read this book. It's a true testament that quality coaching of gymnastics is both an art and a science.

Sam of Noblesville, IN