Proactive Coaching Spotlight on Character in Action – Mike Maghan Athletic Director at McNary High School, Salem Oregon

Mike has developed a Captains Academy at McNary High School using several support materials including the Proactive Coaching booklet, 7 Ways to Lead Your Team. They have also hosted a Captains and Coaches Workshop. Mike says the results of the Captains academy have been great for mutual team support, solving team problems, avoiding potential problems, and improving overall leadership in the school.

The following note came to Mike from an official this fall:

“I want to commend your JV volleyball team for their honesty at last night’s match with (opposing school). This demonstrates all that is good about sports. During the match I had an incident that I’ve never had in all my 20 years. Match point, the line judge to my left had a side line call in the opposite court. She called it out (match over). I was blocked from the line and accepted the call. The opposing team immediately complained, coach standing and yelling. Having had great calls from the line person all match, I proceeded to end game protocol. The girls on McNary’s team were looking at me and I heard one say, “it was in”. I called the captain over and she said it was in. I honored their honesty and over ruled the line judge and continued with the match. I called the opposing team’s captain over and said, “that was an honor call by them, I would have taken the call from the line judge”. McNary came back to win but honesty and leadership won the day.

Speaking in September and October – Proactive Coaching presenters combined for 156 presentations in the last two months, speaking in 16 states and Canada, reaching 19,962 coaches, athletes, parents and business participants.

New Book Recommendations:

1) Courage is the Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee

2) For those of you coaching youth sports, The Discovering Greatness Playbook by Dave Johnston

3) The High School Sports Parent – Jim Thompson, Positive Coaching Alliance (everything Jim does is great!)

4) Uncommon – Tony Dungy

 

 

 

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