Lion Heart

Coaching requires the commitment to teach, to inspire athletes to set and achieve team and/or personal goals, while simultaneously developing the all-important necessary strategies to win! At no time should a coach ever forget or choose to ignore a most basic fundamental and unwritten code: coaching involves people not just schemes or strategies. Regardless of the level or the sport chosen to coach, this code can never be forgotten or the meaning lessened: that coaches, first and foremost, are in the people business. Coaches\' careers will be presented with situations that supercede the traditional x\'s and o\'s. They will face challenges that no \"Bible\" of coaching or summer clinic can adequately address. There is no ignoring the reality that injuries are and will remain inherent and will continue to occur as long as athletes engages in sports. Coaches today are to be commended for