Texas High School Coaches Association

Coaches often underestimate the importance of establishing and maintaining a healthy team culture. Using his experience working with some of the most successful programs in the country, Greg will provide coaches specific strategies they can use to develop a strong culture that is more likely to help their teams not only thrive in good times, but also in times of adversity.
 

Through the power of love, accountability and self-sacrifice a championship culture can be formed. The concept of “Unit Pride” and a total immersion of coaches in their players lives will create life-long, positive lessons as well as wins on the field.
 

Coaches are leaders - and leaders sometimes have to have difficult conversations. Join a panel of well-known coaches and former athletes as they discuss the challenges of leadership today, on and off the field.

After having served over 25 years in the United States Army as a Human Intelligence Officer, retired Colonel and native Texan, J. Craig Flowers is now the Director of Athletics Consulting and Development for Horizon Performance LLC. Horizon Performance assists with the selection and development of NASA astronauts, Navy SEALS, Green Berets, NCAA Athletes, and more. Find out how elite talent trains to win.

Magnanimitas is a Latin word that means greatness of spirit and soul. It recognizes the fact that every human being is different. No matter who you are, you are unique, precious, and have something wonderful inside: your Magnanimitas. Every person can discover his or her greatness of spirit and soul; develop and nurture it; and then use it for the benefit of self, team, and others. When this happens, you are reminded that there is nothing like being part of a real team, a group of people who care about each other so much that their performance exceeds the apparent sum of the team’s component parts. Teams become great only because each member is too committed to let his or her teammates or colleagues down.

This seminar is designed for head coaches that want to brand their program and hone their administrative skills, as well as, younger coaches that seek the skills and mentoring it takes to become a head coach in the future.  One of our most important responsibilities as coaches is to help our young athletes to confront and comprehend the negative culture that challenges them in this day and time. As head coaches we are responsible for providing our coaching staff with the moral guidance, proper encouragement and leadership to get that task accomplished.

The Annual Texas Coaches Leadership Summit is the signature event of the Texas High School Coaches Education Foundation.

We want to unite coaches from across the state of Texas with one primary purpose: to coach beyond the game! Over the years, the state of our society has significantly changed and children are flooding into our educational system laden with social issues that could hinder or negate their chances for success. With domestic violence coming to the forefront recently, the lack of fathers and positive male role models in the lives of American youth today is quickly becoming an epidemic that we feel athletics and coaches, specifically, can play a part in changing for the better.

 

We are excited to feature a slate of excellent speakers who addressed core values in the hopes that our coaches statewide can carry the torch to help our student athletes become successful and responsible citizens.

If you missed it, we've got good news for you! You can get all the presentations right here.

What’s Included:

Bill Curry Former NFL Player/Author/Retired Collegiate Football Coach - "Genius, Power & Magic: Unleashing Your Personal Magnanimita”"

Col. Craig Flowers Director of Athletic Consulting & Development for Horizon Performance - "#CharacterReps"

Kevin DeShazo Author/ Founder of Fieldhouse Media  - "Coaching in a Digital Age”"

Tommy Nelson Author/Senior Pastor at Denton Bible Church  - "The Priesthood of a Coach"

Derwin Gray Former NFL Player/Author/ Pastor of Transformation Church in Charlotte, NC  - "Knowing your Why: Why Do YOU Coach?"

Greg Dale Director of Sports Psychology & Leadership Programs at Duke University - "Developing a Championship Culture: Great Coaches Make it a Priority"

Tom Herman Head Football Coach at the University of Texas  -"Changing a Culture"

 

Bonus Material

·      Conversations with Coaches Video Series ft. Spencer Tillman, Coach Ken Rucker (UT), Coach Glen West (Brenham HS), and Coach DW Rutledge of Texas High School Coaches Association and Education Foundation.

THSCA: "Helping coaches to help kids."

The values that we bring to the game and that we share with our players are the most important part of the game. Whether it's leadership or sportsmanship, on the field or off the field, in sports or in class--the role a coach plays in a player's life is always #1.

How you answer that question will determine how you define success. And how you define success, will determine the kind of coaching culture you will cultivate.