The Coaches over at Coaches Academy (http://coachesacademy.net/dap/a/?a=2000 ) are putting together an exciting learning opportunity for basketball coaches at every level. They have created a personalized online training that breaks down almost every aspect of coaching the game over the course of 12 months.
Two things make Coaches Academy stands out as a great coaching resource. The first is the coaching staff's coaching experience. Coaches Academy is taught by four coaches: Ed Schilling, April McDivitt-Foster, Brian Williams, and Josh Stinson.
Ed Schilling is a very well known and highly regarded coach with NBA experience as an assistant with the New Jersey Nets. He is a successful Division 1 NCAA men's coach as well, as the head coach at Wright State and as an assistant to John Calipari at UMass and Memphis.
April McDivitt Foster has a basketball pedigree. April was the 1999 H.S. Player of the Year in Indiana (Ms. Basketball), and had a very successful NCAA career, playing 3 years for Pat Summit at Tennessee before finishing at University Of California-Santa Barbara . April played in 4 Sweet 16's before going into coaching as an assistant at UCSB.
Brian Williams and Josh Stinson share a combined 40 years of high school varsity as well as youth basketball coaching experience. Brian publishes the Coaching Toolbox and Josh publishes Perfect Practice. Brian and Josh formed a partner ship to create create HoopClinics, another very popular coaching website.
The second reason Coaches Academy stands out is the amount of interaction provided. Each training module includes over an hour of video, an audio recording of a 'coaches roundtable' and an hour-long webinar where members interact directly with the staff in a question and answer segment. Each webinar also includes a 'hot-seat' where one member talks about his team at length and the coaching staff helps him or her find useful solutions.
The extensive training coupled with the staff's NBA and College experience creates a mentorship experience that isnt available any where else. And the pricing is right: anybody can enroll and get the first month's material for free.
Coaches Academy is definitely worth taking a serious look at.
http://coachesacademy.net/dap/a/?a=2000
http://coachesacademy.net/dap/a/?a=2000
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