Coaching Track & Field Successfully by Mark Guthrie
This title provides coaches with a blueprint for building a successful track and field programme, including information on managing the team off the track, planning for big events and motivating athletes to excel.Mark has provided a valuable guide on the technical aspects of track and field, but more importantly he has captured the soul of coaching athletes in our sportThis book will help coaches at all levels to coach the events better, to get their athletes to believe in themselves, and to develop them physically, psychologically, and emotionally.
Gary Wilson
Head Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Coach
University of Minnesota
Mark Guthrie is the men's track and field head coach at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, where he maintains a national championship-caliber program year after year. His teams have won 17 Division III championships and 28 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles since he took over the program in 1986. Guthrie began his coaching career in 1975 at the high school level, where he led his teams to three consecutive state cross country championships. Guthrie's success earned him the United States Track Coaches Association's National Coach of the Year Award in 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. He was named Regional Coach of the Year seven times and is currently the president of the USTCA for Division III. He and his wife, Dawn, enjoy traveling, boating, and attending their daughters' athletic events.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780736042741 |
| ISBN 10 | 0736042741 |
| Title | Coaching Track & Field Successfully |
| Author | Mark Guthrie |
| Series | Coaching Successfully |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Human Kinetics Publishers |
| Year published | 2003-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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