Teaching Character Through Sport: Developing a Positive Coaching Legacy [Paperback]

Bruce Eamon Brown (Author), Mike Colbrese (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003

Demonstrates how a positive coaching legacy can transcend scores on a bronze plaque as a coach influences and helps to mold the life-long character of the athletes they work with.

Noted author and speaker Bruce Brown examines the key issues is creating a lasting legacy, including; how to make a difference, common traits among successful coaches, beliefs about character and sport, action statements about teaching character through sport, redefining the term "athlete", teaching specific values, practicing sportsmanship, the qualities of great teams, team building through positive conditioning, the role of parents in athletics and much, much more. As easy and enjoyable to read as it is thought-provoking. A must for coaches of any level and sport.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Bruce Eamon Brown is a special presenter for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Champions of Character Program. Previously, Bruce served as the athletic director at Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington. A retired coach, he has worked at every level of education in his more than three decades of teaching and coaching. His coaching experiences include basketball, football, volleyball, and baseball at the junior high and high school levels, and basketball at the junior college and college levels. He has been involved with championship teams at each level of competition. Bruce has authored several books and is the featured speaker on nine sport coaching videos. Bruce, his wife Dana and their five daughters reside in Redmond, Washington.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Coaches Choice Books; DVD Video edition (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585187291
• ISBN-13: 978-1585187294
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every coach needs to read this book!!, September 10, 2003

By 

Shawn Skogstad (Kirkland, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teaching Character Through Sport: Developing a Positive Coaching Legacy (Paperback)

This book is essential for every coach in any sport. Bruce Brown does an excellent job of hitting on the issues of what coaches need to think about, but so often get missed in the whole scheme of things. Coaching is so much more than just knowing the particular x's and o's, and reading this book helps the present or future coach realize that. I would recommend Teaching Character Through Sport to any coach of any sport!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars Are Insufficient, January 21, 2007

By 

W. Dooley (Pine, Colorado) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Teaching Character Through Sport: Developing a Positive Coaching Legacy (Paperback)

You've read, digested and implemented Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching materials. Now take a Graduate Course.

Bruce Brown's book is filled with wonderful ideas on how to create a sports culture where individuals and teams maximize the personal growth that is possible through athletics.

Personal favorites include sections on the qualities of "Great Athletes" - successfully introduced to players as young as 11 (and, more importantly their parents) - about the choices that athleted make. Similarly "Great Teams" explores the qualities found in the most successful teams. "Positive Conditioning" is an eye-opener (imaging what happens when the winning team in a game at practice does 20 extra push-ups) as well as great team-building exercises such as "Spotlighting". The section on how parents can be helpful participants in the process is also worthwhile.

Run, don't walk (can you do that on-line?) to get this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Loaded With Ideas, November 6, 2006

By 

S. Ritterbush (Nebraska, USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Teaching Character Through Sport: Developing a Positive Coaching Legacy (Paperback)

Easily worth the money, this book is amazing. It poses great questions to coaches about why they coach and what they hope to accomplish, methods to teach character traits, and a wonderful section on using conditioning positively, to name a few sections. The book is geared primarily towards junior high or high school programs, and really has some great ideas for a sports program.