Nominations for the annual Up2Us Coach of the Year Award are currently being accepted online. Deadline for nominations is 15 Sept 2011.
Monthly Archive: August 2011
Aug 28
Interview with Winning Football Author-Bill Ramseyer
In late July, ISC board members Joe Bouffard and Tim Thomas and I had the pleasure of speaking with Bill Ramseyer. Bill is the author of the recent Human Kinetics book, Winning Football. Bill has coached for 44 yrs at the high school and college levels, and retired 8 years ago. Writing Winning Football was his way …
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Aug 16
New Technology Providing Detailed Feedback on Ball Movement
I came across an interesting use of technology in sport a few weeks ago. A company called 94Fifty has created a system utilizing a sensor on a basketball (must use some sort of RFID tech) combined with proprietary pattern recognition software to capture incredible data about the flight of the ball. The data is available to coaches and players …
Aug 05
National Coaching Leader Joins Institute for Sport Coaching
It is a pleasure to announce Dave McCann, formerly with the US Olympic Committee and US Ski & Snowboard, has joined the Institute as our new Director for National Initiatives. I have known Dave for five years since we first met through our work with the National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education. What has …
Aug 01
Smartphone Technology for Coaches Part 5
At the recent National Coaching Conf in Colorado, I had the pleasure of meeting the Dartfish CEO who briefed me on their iPhone app–EasyTag (also available or soon to be available on Android platforms). Even if you don’t use Dartfish software to analyze your video, you can use their free EasyTag app to help you …
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