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Maximize the development of your athletes and team throughout the year, and just maybe win a postseason title in the process. Coaching Better Every Season: A Year-Round System for Athlete Development and Program Success presents a blueprint for such success, detailing proven coaching methods and practices in preseason, in-season, postseason,…


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I enjoyed sitting in several of Wade Gilbert’s presentations on coaching and chatting with him afterward. This book is a masterpiece of organization and layout aimed at sports coaches of all levels. There is more contained in this single volume than I learned in any coaching course, including my MSc! 

My copy is well-thumbed, with dozens of notes in the margins where I keep thinking I need to incorporate the ideas into my coaching. I like the way it is laid out into different parts of the season to help the coach along their journey. It is not designed to…

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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