Coaching High School

You think you know what it means to coach? Think again. In Confessions of a High School Football Coach, Michael DiMatteo pulls back the curtain on the real world of high school coaching — not the highlight reels or Hollywood versions, but the gut-level truth of what it's like to lead young men through wins, losses, egos, politics, and everything in between. With over three decades of firsthand experience, DiMatteo delivers more than just stories — he delivers hard-earned wisdom. From locker room lessons to parent-teacher battles, from championship highs to soul-crushing defeats, this is...

Simon Pack’s protégé, Josh Panchrest, at age 29 has ferried through foster homes, suffered physical and psychic wounds in combat, stuck with an injured smokejumper during a night of horror, walked through a field of flames to save a mother and son, and suffered a career-ending injury. Now he again fights through all the setbacks seeking fulfillment in some new challenge. He has eyes on big-time football coaching, but after realizing that’s a pipe dream, he lands a job teaching and coaching at a small town high school. The town requires rejuvenation as much as Josh. A one-time economic...

Teaching the Air Raid A Coach’s Guide to Installing the Effective High School Air Raid Offense Second Book in the Effective High School Air Raid Offense Series Most coaches don’t struggle because they lack plays. They struggle because they lack a clear plan for teaching the offense. Teaching the Air Raid is not a playbook. It is an instructional guide designed to help high school coaches install, teach, and sustain the Air Raid offense with clarity, consistency, and purpose. While Foundations of the Air Raid explains how the offense works, this book focuses on how to teach it—on the ...

For coaches that want to evolve and learn new tricks about coaching cross country, then HowExpert Guide to Cross Country Coaching is the audiobook for you. The author Kyle Daubs is a young coach that started a cooperative, cross country program between two schools. In its four year existence, the boys and girls rose to the top of their conference standings. The author not only brings five years of coaching cross country experience but also brings a youthful approach to the game. Great for first-time coaches, and even older coaches who want to learn a few new tricks.

Whatever sport you coach, building a successful sports program can be an enormous, sometimes daunting, task filled with many responsibilities and demands. Questions and decisions wait around every corner, often pulling a coach away from long-term considerations. How can you build a program when daily challenges require your attention? In reality, those daily challenges form some of the building blocks and foundations to any program. As a coach, you have the opportunity every day to showcase your critical thinking, creativity, player-management skills, philosophy, integrity, and character ...

A groundbreaking book that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood, from a renowned parent expert. Every parent wants their child to be okay—to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her...

Coaching the Modern Defensive Lineman Buildsdefensive Lineman from stance to tackle. It is a Systematic, holistic, teaching progression that covers the Who, What, Where, When, and How of every technique used to create a dominant defensive lineman in today's modern game. Defenses need both outside and inside shades, CMDL breaks down how to transition seamlessly between both. Some Topic covered: Stance, First Step, Shock and Lock starts, Slanting, Simplifying to maximize Block Recognition, Block Destruction, How to Pursue, Defensive Line-centric tackling, Playing Inside shades, Lagging, 2-...

Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions? In every organization there are Impact Players—those indispensable colleagues who can be counted on in critical situations and who consistently receive high-profile assignments and new...

The true story of a high school cross country team that went from obscurity to becoming the fastest squad the country, and perhaps the world, has ever seen, called “inspiring and entertaining” (Jerry Schumacher) and “a deliciously rich tale” (Neal Bascomb). When Sean Brosnan arrived at...

“Excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they’re passionate about. Now this classic has been...

The middle of the football season feels different. The energy of August is gone. The depth chart has changed. Injuries have piled up. Staff conversations are sharper. Players are tired. The record starts getting louder. Parents, boosters, officials, social media, and the next opponent all seem to take up space in your head at the same time. The Midseason Reset is a short, direct read for football coaches who know what that stretch of the season feels like. George Coltharp, Jr., Ed.S. writes from the perspective of a veteran coach and educator who understands the weight of the middle: ...

It’s time to discover your hidden genius—and embrace your life’s work. “If happiness, success, and fulfillment are your intended destinations in life (and who doesn’t want those?) Your Hidden Genius is your express-lane ticket.” —Adam Taggart, entrepreneur; president and cofounder...

If you want to learn how to coach girls' high school basketball, then learn from Shane Reinhard who has real-life experience coaching girls' basketball at the high school level. Here's what you will learn inside the book: illuminates the positive and negative realities of coaching girls' basketball at the high school level; discusses a variety of ways to improve basketball skill development on your team; and much more!

Foundations of the Air Raid The Effective High School Air Raid Offense — Book 2 Foundations of the Air Raid is not a playbook—and it is not an install manual. It is a thinking coach’s guide to understanding how the Air Raid offense is designed to function before plays are ever installed or taught. Written by veteran high school coach and educator George Coltharp, Jr., Ed.S. (Curriculum & Instruction), this book focuses on the why behind the Air Raid: why structure matters more than volume, why repetition creates mastery, and why the most successful Air Raid programs resist the urge to...

*Second Edition with 20 new photos added* Rare pictures of Grambling's undefeated, untied, and unscored 1942 "Unteam" along with the 1955 undefeated team are highlighted in this second issue of "MY FRIEND EDDIE ROBINSON" Buck Godfrey gives a new take on a man whose vision, tenacity and honesty opened the door for many. The reader will meet Paul "Tank" Younger and James "Shank" Harris, pioneers in professional football. More importantly, he will meet the symbol of the "gorilla," the essence of the classic, the building of the brand and pure simplicity of a man whose favorite dessert is peach...

This is for the teachers out there that became tennis coaches and for tennis coaches, that want drills to develop large group of players.

LOCK IN: The 30-Day Mental Game Playbook That Turns Nervous, Self-Doubting Athletes Into Focused, Confident Competitors Just 5 minutes a day. No lectures. No boring theory. Just short, science-backed drills any 12- to 18-year-old athlete can do in their room, in the car, or right before they take the field. You have watched it happen. Your athlete has the talent. They put in the hours in the gym, the pool, the field. But the moment the pressure turns up, something breaks. They freeze. They overthink. They come home after a loss and spiral into "I'm just not good enough." You cannot buy them...

Most first-year football coaches do not struggle because they lack effort or enthusiasm. They struggle because nobody explains the parts of the job that happen outside the playbook. Camp gets longer than expected. School starts. Parents have questions. The staff room feels different after a loss. Small responsibilities begin piling up, and Friday night keeps arriving whether you feel ready or not. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a New Football Season is a practical survival guide for first-year assistants, graduate assistants, volunteers, and young coaches taking on new responsibilities. ...

BOX COUNT: How Smart Coaches Win the Run Game Before the Snap Most run plays do not fail because the concept was bad. They fail because the picture was wrong. Too many coaches spend their time chasing new schemes, rewriting blocking rules, or blaming execution when the real issue was already visible before the snap: bad numbers, poor leverage, hidden support, or a defensive structure that favored the other side. BOX COUNT is a practical coaching resource designed to help offensive coaches see the field more clearly, make faster decisions, and call the run game with greater confidence. This ...

A book geared toward high school football coaches, especially those aspiring to be head coaches. Details include topics head coaches deal with from booster clubs, off the field issues, player and assistant coach management, creating a vision and culture for your program, and how to interview for a head position. This book will go through most of the items that coaches become aware of only when they become a head high school football coach.