Brandon Hall Coaches Corner Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Craig Drilling, Director of Athletics at Brandon Hall, and Will Long, Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach at Brandon Hall, tackle subjects relevant to high school sports.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long recap a year of the podcast and discuss reflection as a coaching tool. The coaches discuss the one “do-over” of their coaching careers. Finally, Minute Madness focuses on the coaches’ favorite summer memories.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long welcome Terrell Barkley, athletic director, boys and girls basketball/tennis coach at Oak Mountain Academy. The trio discusses how to navigate students playing multiple sports, the resources involved in maintaining a variety of sports, and the constant communication involved.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long discuss the challenges of playing high school sports during the pandemic. Listen for the Tom Brady talk and a new edition of Minute Madness.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long discuss the challenges and rewards of maintaining the standards of a program and how to keep the processes the same even when the results are not showing on the scoreboard. Coach Long discusses the current Brandon Hall varsity boys basketball season. The discussion turns to how to deal with stronger competition and how it helps the overall program. In this episode’s Minute Madness, the coaches speak about their favorite Christmas movies, songs, and traditions.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long welcome Kevin Huitt, teacher and coach at Brandon Hall, to talk about what they believe to be the most important aspect of being a head coach. The coaches swap stories and work to help aspiring head coaches. This episode features a discussion about consistency, empathy, and communication. The coaches bring back Minute Madness in order to talk about their first sporting event memory.
Attitude - Jay Wright
The Energy Bus - John Gordon
Coach Drilling and Coach Long welcome Coach Britt Gaylor, Athletic Director for St. George’s Episcopal School, to discuss teaching athletics to be a leader through communication and mindset.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long discuss how being an elite student-athlete has similar characteristics to being elite at customer service. In this episode, the coaches converse about respect, communication, and humility as athletes and coaches.
Coach Drilling and Coach Long return for episode 2 of the Coaches Corner Podcast. In this episode, the coaches focus their conversation on the structure of their programs. Listen as they discuss ideas relating to being on time, being accountable, being engaged and being communicative.
Coaches tackle the question of how to create and implement a practice plan. Coach Long talks about the coaches he follows for practice plans and when to abandon the plans for what works at the moment.