Coaching Track & Field Successfully / Edition 1

by Mark Guthrie

Overview

Building and maintaining a successful track and field program doesn't happen by chance. It requires planning, organizing, training, motivating, and excelling in competition. Coaching Track & Field Successfully is your comprehensive guide to every facet of running a first-rate program in the sport.
Coach Mark Guthrie's University of Wisconsin-La Crosse track and field teams have claimed 15 Division III national championships since 1986. Progressive technical instruction, event-specific training, tactical meet preparation, post-meet analysis, and effective coach-athlete communication are among the many key factors in Guthrie's formula for success.
Learn from the best to make your program the best it can be. In Coaching Track & Field Successfully, 7-time national coach of the year Guthrie presents not only what to do, but also how to do it and why. Select and apply what might work best for your situation to benefit from the knowledge of a proven winner, year after year.

About the Author:

Mark Guthrie is the men's track and field head coach at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, where he maintains a national championship-caliber program year after year. His teams have won 15 Division III championships and 27 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles since he took over the program in 1986. Guthrie began his coaching career in 1975 at the high school level, where he led his teams to three consecutive state cross country championships. Guthrie's success earned him the United States Track Coaches Association's National Coach of the Year Award in 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. He was named Regional Coach of the Year seven times and is currently the president of the USTCA for Division III. He and his wife, Dawn, enjoy traveling, boating, and attending their daughters' athletic events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900736042740
Publisher:	Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication date:	02/27/2003
Series:	Coaching Successfully
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.44(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Mark Guthrie is the men's track and field head coach at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, where he maintains a national championship-caliber program year after year. His teams have won 17 Division III championships and 28 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles since he took over the program in 1986. Guthrie began his coaching career in 1975 at the high school level, where he led his teams to three consecutive state cross country championships. Guthrie's success earned him the United States Track Coaches Association's National Coach of the Year Award in 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. He was named Regional Coach of the Year seven times and is currently the president of the USTCA for Division III. He and his wife, Dawn, enjoy traveling, boating, and attending their daughters' athletic events.

Table of Contents

Part I Coaching Foundation
Chapter 1 Developing a Coaching Philosophy
Chapter 2 Communicating Your Approach
Chapter 3 Motivating Track and Field Athletes
Chapter 4 Building a Track and Field Program

Part II Coaching Plans
Chapter 5 Planning for the Season
Chapter 6 Preparing for Practices

Part III Coaching Events
Chapter 7 Sprints and Sprint Relays
Chapter 8 Hurdle Events
Chapter 9 Middle Distance and Distance Events
Chapter 10 High Jump
Chapter 11 Pole Vault
Chapter 12 Long Jump and Triple Jump
Chapter 13 Throwing Events

Part IV Coaching Meets
Chapter 14 Mental Training for Teams
Chapter 15 Preparing for Meets

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

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""Mark has provided a valuable guide on the technical aspects of track and field, but more importantly he has captured the ""soul"" of coaching athletes in our sport. This book will help coaches at all levels to coach the events better, to get their athletes to believe in themselves, and to develop them physically, psychologically, and emotionally.""

Gary Wilson
Head Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Coach
University of Minnesota

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Editorial Reviews

Mark has provided a valuable guide on the technical aspects of track and field, but more importantly he has captured the soul of coaching athletes in our sport. This book will help coaches at all levels to coach the events better, to get their athletes to believe in themselves, and to develop them physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

Gary Wilson
Head Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Coach
University of Minnesota

From the Publisher