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The KSHSAA Board of Directors voted in September to permit coaches in basketball, volleyball and football to coach their teams during an eight-week period over the summer, changing the previous rule which limited them to a week-long summer camp. Coaches can now organize practices and coach their teams at summer tournaments in these three main sports. How will you change your off-season coaching strategy in accordance with this rule change?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Kip Pulliam, Lonnie Lollar, Brandon Clark, David Gardner
On Call Between cell phones and email, people are more available for commnication than they have ever been. This fact has radically changed the nature of high school coaching. No longer is a holler from the grandstand or a possible home phone call the extent of parents’ venues by which to let a coach know their child deserves more playing time. Cell phones and email have provided the opportunity for constant inquiry. Question: Would your job be more enjoyable if the school administration gave parents a prohibition from using your cell phone number or email? Expound on what you think should be the relationship between coaches and their players’ parents.
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Jerry Treat, Shelly Nibarger, Ernie Beachey, Dianne Popp
How far does a coach’s role extend? As top prep athletes become commoditities on the collegiate and professional athletics markets, they are confronted by counsel on all sides – solicited and otherwise. Between parents and coaches, recruiters and scouts, and media and blogs, everyone eventually weighs in on their futures. What should a high school coach or administrator do when an athlete tells him or her that it’s time to focus on one sport to prepare for the next level? Is it a coach’s place to weigh in on the situation with an opinion?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Rick Wheeler, Brian Hallmark, Jack Geist, Bill Messamore
The Kansas Football Coaches Association put five proposals before the Kansas State High School Activities Association this past spring regarding rule changes. They are: (1) The allowance of using shoulder pads and helmets at the high schools’ summer camps, now called coaches camps; (2) The allowance of using just helmets at those camps; (3) Changing the official status of the coach’s camp to the school’s camp in order to obtain the school’s insurance coverage for the camp; (4) Allowing preseason jamborees or scrimmages between two to four teams during the week before fall competition begins; (5) Not limiting the number of players who can suit up for playoff games. If you could make any rule change for high school football in the state of Kansas, what would it be?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Steve Warner, Gary Guzman, Brent Glann, D.J. Basgall
The state track meet gathers Kansans from every corner of the state. Track and field is the only major high school sport for which the KSHSAA gathers all six classifications in one place for the state tournament. All state qualifying athletes make the trip to Wichita State’s Cessna Stadium – Class 6A through 1A, from the smallest high school in western Kansas to the city schools in the northeast. The best athletes in the state congregate at one setting, bringing together Kansans from all different backgrounds. A walk through Cessna Stadium and the throwing grounds outside Koch Arena on Memorial Day weekend at the state tournament offers a taste of Kansas. What is your best memory from your years of experience at the Kansas state track meet?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Bret Eckert, Brent Pfeifer, Mark Lamb, Cory Swords
In high school softball, pitchers are the aggressors at 40 feet from home plate. With so little reaction time from such a close distance, hitters nearly have to guess where the ball is going to end up. A pitcher that can truly dominate is one of the greatest assets a softball team can have. Softball pitchers' arms do not tire nearly as fast as baseball pitchers because of the underhand technique. As a result, a team usually needs only one or two dominant pitchers as opposed to a four- to five-man rotation in baseball. How much impact does one dominant pitcher have on the success of your softball team? And how do you teach your hitters to be successful against dominant pitchers?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Jason Wilson, Ray Aguirre, J.R. Rodriguez
Small ball is an offensive strategy in baseball in which the batting team emphasizes placing runners on base and advancing them into position to score in a deliberate, methodical way. This style of play places a high value on each run scored and attempts to score them without extra-base hits, instead using singles, walks, stolen bases, sacrifice flies, bunts and the hit and run. The 2005 World Series champion Chicago White Sox won the title using this philosophy, and Wichita State ran into the University of California-Irvine small-ball buzz saw last spring in the NCAA Super Regional. Some teams swear by it, others rely on power hitters and maximum scoring potential. How does small ball fit into your team’s strategy?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Jay Miller, Steve Williams, Don Patterson, Trent Nesmith
Chemistry – it may be the ultimate buzz word among those who break down game of basketball. Somehow, a coach and all of his players have to get on the same page – without forcing the issue. Legendary college and NBA coaching bedouin Larry Brown calls it “playing the right way.” Nine-time NBA title winner Phil Jackson channels the Buddha to get it. Red Auerbach lit a cigar upon achievement of it. Winning teams flow – from practice to the game, from the sideline to the court, and up and down it. All winning teams have chemistry. But how do you get it? We asked four local basketball coaches for their secrets to developing team chemistry.
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Jerry Gerber , Mitch Fiegel, Chris Grill, David Hughes
The Kansas State High School Activities Association is clear on the issue of recruiting among its member schools: it’s illegal. (See Rule 19 in the KSHSAA Handbook.) Schools whose affiliated persons are caught recruiting students for activities purposes subject their standing in the KSHSAA to the review of its Executive Board; and students who transfer schools as a consequence of being recruited subject themselves to ineligibility for up to 365 days. Students may transfer while in high school, but not for activity purposes. And, unless their transfer is accompanied by their parents move into the vicinity of the new school, they are ineligible for participation in interschool extracurricular activities for 18 weeks. (See Rule 18.) What is the purpose of outlawing recruiting among high schools? Is it beneficial to a student to be disallowed from freely transferring schools?
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Bill Faflick, Gary Merritt, Eric Armstrong
Every successful coach learned from someone else. Coaching trees are prevalent in every sport; assistants and players of great coaches eventually become coaches themselves, e.g.: James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, coached the legendary Kansas University coach Phog Allen. Allen, in turn, coached Dean Smith at KU, before Smith went on to lead North Carolina to 11 Final Fours as head coach. Smith was then assisted for 11 seasons by Roy Williams, who held the head job at KU for 15 seasons before returning to UNC in 2003. Name a few coaches who have most influenced your methods and explain why.
Central Kansas

Featured Coaches: Mike Darrah, Ron Koppenhaver, Tom Audley, Jamie Kessler

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