A rookie to the Final Four, Konner Beste recaps the event and shares why it was a transformational experience in his young coaching career. The Final Four is easily the most important and impactful event for basketball coaches to attend to grow their career. And I wish I would have attended my first one sooner than this…
NextGen Coaches: Key Takeaways and Videos from the Inaugural Event
NextGen Coaches was created by FastModel Sports and CoachingU to do just that: develop the next generation of elite basketball coaches. The 2019 Final Four in Minneapolis saw two leaders and long-time partners in the basketball coaching industry, CoachingU and FastModel Sports, team up to present the first ever NextGen Coaches event. An audience of…
Coaching Development: How to Spend Winter Break as an Intern
How does an intern invest in coaching development? Hit the road to build relationships, learn the game, and embrace the process. Hello #FastModelFamily! It’s your favorite intern, Matt Barnthouse. To be upfront with you, it’s my dream to work in basketball, particularly at the college level. At the moment, I am a graduate student that…
FastTrade: The New Way to Network for Basketball Coaches
Build relationships and expand your coaching circle with FastDraw’s FastTrade feature as a networking tool. No matter what industry you work in, networking is crucial to success. The coaching business is no different. Relationships matter and those who have have a solid network are in better shape to succeed than those who don’t. But we’ve…
Personal and Career Development for Coaches
This past August, our group held our first Elite Training Camp in Richmond, VA. What follows is some quick hitters from our session on Personal Development. Hope you learn something you can apply to your growth! Personal Development = My Plan to Get Better 4 Truths You Must Understand About Getting a Coaching Job 1)…
The Camp Tour Reflection
I’ve now been home for a little over a week and have had an opportunity to process the whole experience. What an incredible journey I went on. The Camp Tour was very exhausting, but an experience that I would do all over again tomorrow if I could. I highly recommend putting together a journey similar…
The Camp Tour – Day 30
(This is Day 30 of a 35 day camp tour. Check out the first week of the tour here) The campers were awoken at the earliest time of the week, today at 7:15. With the weather not being great, we dismissed the campers by hallway to the cafeteria for breakfast. The goal was to get…
Camp Tour – Day 5
(This is an ongoing series of a 35 day camp tour by Coach Zack Freesman. To catch up on his tour, click here) I wasn’t in the building for more than 2 minutes before the least experienced player on my team asked me to do some extra drills with him. Of course, I immediately said…
Advice for Student-Managers That Want to Become Coaches
This article was originally posted by Greg Youncofski here. Make sure to follow Greg on twitter at @CoachGregUC Over the past two seasons, I have received several messages from aspiring coaches currently working for college programs as a student-manager asking for advice on how to stick out amongst their peers and take that next step in…