Al Scates is a former American volleyball player and coach. As a player, he was selected as a collegiate All American, and also represented the USA National Team. He transitioned into coaching in 1964, and went on to be the head coach of UCLA for 48 years. He went on to become the winningest volleyball coach in […]
Sjoerd Marijne is a Dutch former field hockey player and now coach. As a player he twice won the Dutch National Championship and Euro Hockey Club Champions Cup. He then transitioned into coaching, first with youth teams, eventually leading the Netherlands U21 women to the gold medal at the World Cup and the U21 men […]
Anson Dorrance is an American soccer coach (in the USA it is referred to as soccer not Football) who is currently the Head Coach of the Women’s Team at the University of North Carolina. Under his leadership the team has won 21 of the 31 NCAA Championships. His teams have a winning record of 91%. […]
Andy Shay is a former Lacrosse player who started coaching as an assistant for four years under Greg Cannella at the University of Massachusetts where he helped the team win three New England titles. Then in 2003 he was named the Head Coach of Yale where he has gone on to lead the team to […]
Jeff Traylor is an American Football coach. Jeff started his coaching career in 1989 as a High School Assistant coach. He would eventually return to be the Head Coach at his own High School. Gilmer High and would go on to lead the team to 3 state titles. His impact at the school was so […]
Today’s episode is on the topic of High Functioning Teams and we are joined for the discussion with one our past guests the Great Coach Hugh McCutcheon who has just written a book called Championship Behaviours Hugh led the USA men’s team to an Olympic Gold in 2008 and the USA women in 2012 and […]
Vern Gambetta is that rare individual who has coached at the elite level across multiple sports. His foundation is in Track & Field coaching, however over a career that spans almost 50 years he has worked in Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the NBA, Cricket, the NHL, Softball, Swimming and with San Francisco Forty […]
Shaun was born in Scotland and started coaching canoeing when he was 16 years old. He progressed until he was the coach of the national team in 1997. He then went on to lead the British Junior and Senior teams before moving to the USA in 2008 to lead the program at Oklahoma City University […]
