Nabc's Youth Basketball Coaching Handbook: Beyond the Backboard - Softcover

Bruce Eamon Brown

9781585188901: Nabc's Youth Basketball Coaching Handbook: Beyond the Backboard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585188905 ISBN 13: 9781585188901

Publisher: Coaches Choice, 2006

NABC’s Youth Basketball Coaching Handbook teaches parent-coaches how to coach and develop youngsters through the basketball-playing experience. Shares crucial knowledge about coaching young basketball players, including: reasons for coaching, developing a coaching philosophy, motivating young athletes, planning/organization, game coaching, establishing personnel roles, developing essential skills, monitoring and controlling player behavior, developing character lessons, and much more. Produced in cooperation with the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

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About the Author:

Jerry Krause is the director of basketball operations for Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He has coached and taught basketball at all levels for over 40 years. The author of 13 books on coaching basketball and over 30 instructional videos, Krause is the chairman of the NABC Research Committee and former chairman of the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee. In 1998, Krause received the prestigious NABC Cliff Wells Appreciation Award for his lifetime contributions to basketball. He was inducted into the NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame in March 2002. He is a member of the National Association for Sports and Physical Education and is in their hall of fame as both a coach and a physical educator.

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.

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