Podcast 13 – Can you succeed when the players don’t prioritize winning?

Tim Alaniz joins me for this episode. Tim is currently the assistant coach at Southwestern College, an NAIA school in Kansas. He and I worked together at Midwestern State and at Charleston Academy. The topic of this conversation is whether you can be successful with players who put winning below other priorities.

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Tim previously took part in the Coaching Conversation on Training Youth Volleyball with Loren Anderson.

Here are links related to some what we talked about in the discussion:

The Coaching Conversation with Simon Loftus and Mark Lebedew on Stress in Coaching.
The 2-player/2-ball version of volley tennis I call Brazilian.
The documentary Take the Ball, Pass the Ball documentary about Barcelona FC. It’s available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
David DeLozier was guest on the second episode of the podcast.
More on the toward and away from motivation concept.

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John is currently the Talent Strategy Manager (oversees the national teams) and Indoor Performance Director for <a href="https://www.volleyballengland.org/">Volleyball England</a>, as well as Global Director for Volleyball for <a href="https://nation.academy/">Nation Academy</a>. His volleyball coaching experience includes all three NCAA divisions, plus Junior College, in the US; university and club teams in the UK; professional coaching in Sweden; and both coaching and club management at the Juniors level. He's also been a visiting coach at national team, professional club, and juniors programs in several countries. Learn more on his <a href="https://coachingvb.com/john-forman-bio/">bio page</a>.

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