The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Our Great Coach on this episode is legendary American Football Coach, Bill Snyder.Bill started his coaching career in 1966. In 1979 he became the offensive coordinator under Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry at the University of Iowa. Over the next 10 years, he and Fry turned a program that had not had a winning season since 1961, into a two-time Big Ten champion.In 1989, he became the 32nd head coach of Kansas State University. He would go on to coach them for 25 seasons. In this time, he would lead them to more than 200 wins, 18 bowl games, and two Big 12 championships.The development of the Kansas State program is considered the greatest turnaround in college football history. And led Hall of Fame football coach Barry Switzer to famously once state "He's not the coach of the year, he's not the coach of the decade, he's the coach of the century."Bill was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015.Key topics he discusses with us include:How Great Coaches have a prominent understanding of the environment that they happen to be in.When athletes believe you have a genuine interest in them, they will trust you and make the required sacrifices for the team.The challenges he faced in turning Kansas State Football into one of the greatest programs in college history.Leaving a legacy to have influenced people's values so they live a happy and successful life.Books:Leadership Lessons with Bill Snyder Bill Snyder: They Said It Couldn't Be DoneTake It from MeIf you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is rugby's Alana Thomas.Alana was the 88th player capped to play for the Australian Women’s Rugby team, the Wallaroos representing them between 2006 to 2010.She then transitioned into coaching, progressing through coaching club and state representative teams. Winning the Victorian premiership with Melbourne Unicorns in 2017. An achievement that led to her winning the Rugby Australia Community Coach of the year.In 2017 she was appointed coach of the Melbourne Rebels team in new National competition, the Super W, and she is still in that role today. In addition she has coached Australia A teams and in 2020 was also appointed as an Assistant Coach for the Fiji Women's Rugby team to help them prepare for the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup.Key topics she discusses include:• building a team culture, and how the team came up with the words “I want to be a rebel like her” to describe it.• the importance of knowing the athlete as a person first, because if you don't know the person, you won't know what motivates them.• that it used to be that you had to perform to feel like you belonged in a team, whereas now you have to feel like you belong in order to perform.• creating sustainable pathways and opportunities for others to follow.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Peter Moores.Peter had a long first class career as a wicket keeper with Worcestershire and Sussex, and retired in 1998 with over 800 dismissals to his name.He became coach of Sussex in 1999, and led them to their first ever Division 1 Championship in their 164 year history in 2003. He went on to coach England Youth and development squads, before being appointed coach of England Men’s team in 2007.Peter was appointed coach of Lancashire, and delivered their first championship in 77 years, making him the only coach to have won the championship with two different counties.This lead to him being appointed as England Men's cricket coach again in 2014.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Salliann Briggs.Salliann has represented England Women's cricket at U17, U19 and U21 level. Captaining the teams on international tours.In 2013 she retired and began coaching, quickly progressing to Head Coach for both the England Women U15 and U19 squads.Then in 2016 she began coaching Loughborough Lightning in the Kia Super League in the UK, taking them to the semi-final in her first year.In March 2018, she moved to Australia as she was named as the head coach for the Hobart Hurricanes in the Women’s Big Bash League and the Tasmanian Tigers in the Women’s National Cricket League.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Joe Prunty.Joe is an American professional basketball coach with 22 years’ experience in the NBA. He was a High School coach who joined the San Antonio Spurs as a an assistant video coordinator in 1996, progressing quickly to be an Assistant Coach under the legendary Head Coach Greg Popovich in 2000. In his time with the Spurs they won 3 NBA championships.Joe has also coached with Cleveland, Portland, Dallas, Milwaukee and Phoenix. He spent 4 years as the Head Coach of the Great Britain men’s basketball team.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Jan Kodeš.Jan is a former professional tennis player and coach.He won a total of 25 international singles and 31 doubles tournaments, the highlights were singles victories at the 1970 and 71 French Open and Wimbledon in 1973.In 1980 he was part of the winning Czechoslovakian Davis Cup team that featured Ivan Lendl, Tomáš Šmíd and Pavel Složil.From 1982-87 he was the non-playing Davis Cup captain. And in 1990 he was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Dorette Badenhorst.Dorette is the head coach of the South African Netball team, the SPAR Proteas.She started her coaching journey at 13 coaching grassroots tennis with her father.Whilst working as a Teacher at Auckland Park Primary School, she started coaching the schools Netball teams.At University, Dorette was selected to play for the South African Under-21 team. In 2012, she was appointed Head Coach of North West University (NWU) winning the Varsity Netball title back to back in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 NWU won the University Sport South Africa (USSA) tournament.Dorette has coached both the South African Under-19 and under-21 team.She was part of the coaching technical team as an assistant coach where South Africa placed 4th at the 2019 Netball World CupDorette was appointed as Head Coach of the SA National Netball team in October 2019If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Billy Walsh. Billy is the current head coach of the USA Boxing team. He started boxing at age seven in a Christian Brothers gym in Wexford Ireland. He went on to win seven Irish Senior titles, participated in European and World Championships and represented his country as a welterweight in the 1988 Olympics. He then transitioned into coaching and was appointed Irish Head Coach in 2003. He was the head coach for 12 years and from 2008 to 2014 the team won 7 Olympic medals, at that point it was 25% of all Olympic medals Ireland has ever won. In 2015 and again in 2016 he won the Amateur International Boxing Associations World Coach of the Year. In 2015 he was appointed head coach of USA Boxing, and was charged with returning the program to its prior glory. So far this century only 1 male and 1 female boxer has won gold at the Olympics this century, despite the fact that American boxing is the most decorated program in Olympic history and produced champions like Cassius Clay, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Leonard, Spinks, and Oscar De La Hoya. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Julia Price.Julia is a former Australian Cricketer, and now coach. She started playing cricket in 1988, and just 8 years later was debuting for Australia against England in her first Test. A specialist wicket keeper she played 84 One-day Internationals and was part of the world cup winning team in 1997 and 2005.Julie started coaching in 1999 while still playing, traveling to developing cricket nations like Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands and Argentina to coach both men and women. She retired as a player in 2012 and transitioned into full time coaching.In 2013 she coached the Tasmanian Women’s Cricket team. And then in 2018 she became the first female coach in the Men's T20 League in Australia where she was an assistant to Darren Lehmann.Then in 2019 she was appointed Head Coach of the USA Cricket team to help them prepare for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Charlie Walsh.Charlie was the coach of the Australian National Cycling team from 1980 until 2000. During that time he took the Australian team from a world rank of 25 to number 1. He coached cyclists to 10 World and 12 Olympic Games records winning 43 gold medals, 31 silver medals and 43 bronze medals. He has multiple coach of the year awards, and was recognised for his services to cycling when he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1987.Charlie is a master coach with a legendary reputation in the world of cycling.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.