IF IT AIN’T BROKE: HOW FLORIDA TRACK & FIELD INTEGRATES NEW TOOLS IN A WINNING PROGRAM
Mike Holloway isn’t going anywhere. After guiding the Florida Gators’ track teams to eight national championships and 14 SEC titles, Holloway secured a 10-year contract extension with the university that will keep the Hall of Fame coach in Gainesville until 2028. For a program that has reached such a rare…
Can the Play-Practice-Play Model Rejuvenate U.S. Soccer?
Midway through the first day of classroom work for my U.S. Soccer D License, there was a mutiny. The course instructors—a sage pair of A-Licensed coaches with decades of experience in U.S. Soccer—were whiteboarding the course curriculum and underlying methodology when, one by one, the two-dozen club coaches in the…
The Evolution of Flex (or Multisport ≠ Multiple Sports Simultaneously)
The Scene: April 2018. Del Mar, California. The first spring practice to kick off the Flex soccer team’s second competitive season, with more giggling and oh-my-goshes than quality touches as the players gathered for a pre-warm-up routine of partner juggling. Pair upon pair, each shanking balls off shins and knees due to…
BEYOND TOP SPEED—7 KEYS TO PEAK POWER WITH INDIANA FOOTBALL’S MATT RHEA
Matt Rhea is a speed guy. A PhD in fact, focusing on performance enhancements largely centered on making athletes faster on the football field. In just over a year as the Athletic Performance Coach for Indiana University’s football program—after a stint as the Head of Sport Science at the IMG…