Fall College Tour

I have not been posting as frequently because I am on my
annual fall college tour. I started out at North Carolina State on August 28
working with both Track & Field and Swimming. Very enjoyable visit catching
up with Rollie Geiger, an old friend and competitor from my college track
coaching days back in the Pleistocene era. Then off to University of Michigan
for women’s swimming. Then a “wonderful” four days in one of my favorite
places, Las Vegas for the ASCA Convention. (Notes for those presentations will eventually
be posted on my web site – just need to catch up) the convention itself was
great, the venue sucked. Just returned from three days with Harvard Women’s swimming,
this is the second year they are using the dryland program. Always enjoy
Cambridge, when I leave there I always feel a little smarter just for having
walked around Harvard Square and the campus. This next weekend I complete my
college tour in Gambier Ohio at Kenyon College. While there I will work on
staff development for all the sports and focus on swimming with Jim Steen. This
is my second stint with Kenyon after a three year hiatus. I am looking forward
to the year with Kenyon. All the coaches from these programs are great coaches
who are trying to grow and learn, they are all willing to share which makes it
a wonderful learning experience for me.

That being said I can’t wait to get home for the month of
October to be able to spend more time with Venice Volleyball and Baseball. Both
teams have outstanding coaches and eager kids focused on getting better. The
volleyball team is off to a great start, they are 8 and 2. I know they are
going to surprise a lot of teams along the way. This group of girls has worked
harder than any team I have ever worked with. They get it. They are fully committed
to making themselves the best you can be. I get fired up every day I can be in
the gym with them. They are young and relatively inexperienced, a great quality
because they don’t know they are not supposed to beat the teams they are
beating.