Before Team Meeting

• Science of Motivation - Part I Challenge. - Students respond to challenges so give 'em plenty!
• Join Us! - Getting students to try out for your sport takes more than posting a sign on the locker room door. This article tells you how much more!
• NEW Winning Them Over - Here's an article about a school that struggled to get students to come out for its athletic teams. Read how they solved their problem.
• Promoting High School Wrestling - This article contains 41 ways to promote our sport. A must read for wrestling coaches!
• Team Mottos - Here are some examples of team mottos which are a good way to add focus to a season.
• Team Posters - Posters are a great way to promote your program. Here are many examples thanks to Tom Fortunato and his most excellent website.
• 10 Reasons Football Players Should Wrestle - Football and Wrestling: Two sides of the same coin.
• Football and Wrestling - You might want to give this flyer to every Freshman and JV football player.
• Arm yourself with lots of reasons for kids to join your team:
  • Why Wrestling?
  • Benefits of Wrestling - This article can be used to promote our sport.
• Promotional Booklet - This is a single-page, double-sided booklet that gives some reasons for wrestling and is excellent for recruiting new grapplers. It is a legal-size (8.5x14) sheet and is available in two formats: Appleworks (outside - inside) and PDF (outside - inside).

Team Meeting

• Team Meeting Letters:
  • New Recruits
  • Returning Wrestlers
• Team Meeting Posters:
  • Pressure (cwk and pdf).
  • The Throw (doc and pdf).
• Team Book - This is given to the wrestlers at the start of the season. There are lots of pages here you'll want your kids to read!
• Team Meeting - This is the most important meeting of the year. Make it a good one. This article tells you why and how.

Books and Videotapes

• 101 Ways to Motivate Athletes - This book addresses the most important part of coaching: motivating athletes. It offers over 100 specific and detailed ideas for establishing a positive team culture and a successful, winning organization. Includes ideas for the preseason, early in the season, all season, midseason, postseason and more. Ideal for coaches and administrators of all sports with athletes at any level of play.
• 101 Positive Athletic Traditions: Building Positive Team Legacies - Traditions help shape and reflect the character of a team-past, present, and future. Traditions refocus the coach and athlete. They give perspective, rekindle the spirit of the past, and remind the coach and player of what is important. Ultimately, traditions produce successful teams, great memories, lasting friendships, and help establish coaching legacies. This thoroughly enjoyable, idea-packed book offers over one hundred examples of positive athletic traditions, including: Traditions to welcome new team members, pre-season traditions, senior traditions, traditions for captains, pre-, post-, and last-game traditions. There are also traditions to involve the community and alumni, and traditions for equipment, facilities, and much more. A great resource for coaches and leaders of any sport or activity.
• Nunamaker's Videotape Series - If you want to learn how to coach from a legend you need see him in action in the practice room. This outstanding, five-tape video series brings you inside the Nazareth High School (PA) wrestling room and covers sessions from the first day of practice until the week before the States. Each tape contains at least two hours of valuable information including practices, promotion tips, fund-raising activities, weight control, conditioning and many other aspects of coaching. Great for wrestling coaches at all levels! More details. Purchase here.