My life’s purpose is to create an environment that facilitates the resilient growth of the student-athlete, allowing them to reach their utmost potential and enabling them to create the best version of themself through improvement of their physical and mental response-ability.

I believe that in order for a student-athlete to be successful they must give massive amounts of attention and time to education and sport. Time management, preserving mental clarity and improving physical fitness, along with sports specific skills, are all critical in the achievement of a student-athlete’s goals both on and off the field.

Response-Ability

Reimagining and introducing the often used word responsibility as “response-ability” helps me reframe what I feel is the desired outcome of being responsible, creating an effective response to failure that ultimately leads to a successful outcome. In choosing “response-ability” it also denotes it as a skill that can, and should, be improved upon. Student-athletes must have highly effective responses to the challenges they face on a daily basis to acheive their desired goals. Proper time management, mental clarity, physical fitness and improvement of sports specific skills are only possible by those who have the ability to respond well in high pressure situations. Therefore as a coach I believe my overall goal is to improve a student-athletes response-ability. In sport effective physical and mental responses to failure are crucial to success and that is why failure is a key component to winning. It creates valuable lessons and creates real opportunities for growth. The most successful people in any field have failed the most but it is not their failures that created their success, it was their ability to respond to those failures in effective ways that led them to success. In creating student-athletes who respond to failure effecively you are not only giving them tools to be successful on the field but also enabling them to be resilient in real life situations off the field as well.

The 5-Stars

The 5-star rating system is widely used in many areas including sports. It is usually used to rank recruits on a 1-5 scale where 1 is sub-par and 5 is excellent. In keeping with this type of rating system I have created the following star-ranking list to help people visualize my overall coaching philosophy of building response-ability.

Physical-Ability

The ability to physically perform sport-specific skills at a high level.

Mental-Ability

The ability to maintain a mental outlook that facilitates successful outcomes.

Sport-Specific Ability

The ability to perform sport specific skills at a high level.

Response-Ability

The ability to choose the most effective response in a given situation to improve the odds of success.

Success-Ability

The ability to reach your goals in life, whatever those goals may be, through developing the previous abilites to their fullest potential.