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Vol. 56 No. 4 Published by the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association December 2018 COACHING - IT’S ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS John Erickson that fewer than 3% of our high school athletes will go on to It has been almost a year now since I retired from the participate in college. With this in mind, what do the athletes Executive Director’s position of the MSHSCA. With the work leave your programs with? What do they take away with them load reduced I have had time to look back and reflect on my from all of the hard work and dedication they have poured into time as a coach and our time as the leaders of the MSHSCA. I your program? look back and marvel at how in the past 50 years the role of the I have had opportunities to sit with some of my high coach has become so much more demanding. The growth of school teammates over the years and reminisce about our social media, the growth of year around sports, the influence of playing days. These conversations always seem to generate parents on AAU programs and traveling teams has significantly a lot of memories and shared experiences. The conversations changed the world of our high school sports. invariably lead to memories of our coaches. The conversations So the question is, how do coaches survive in this rapidly will look back and both the good memories and the not so changing world of high school sports? Why are some coaches good memories. I believe, that for everyone of us there are so much more successful than others? We all know there signs of our relationships with our coaches. are certain characteristics of successful coaches. These It is with this in mind, I will once again say, one of the characteristics most often include; dedication, hard work, greatest assets a coach can demonstrate is his or her ability knowledge and of course recognizing talent and helping to foster relationships. There are a lot of players in the game athletes reach their full potential. I believe that most coaches when it comes to relationships. The list might include; coach possess and demonstrate these qualities. If a coach does not to player, coach to parent, coach to administration, coach to exemplify these character traits, he or she is probably not going supporters and coach to their profession. It is a very difficult to last long in the coaching profession. task to please all of the areas mentioned. It is possible to I believe that all of us can always find ways to improve as form working relationships with each of these areas. If we people and as coaches. I think there are great lessons that COACHING ... continued on page 4 can be taken away from the “Why We Play” training that was developed in a partnership between the MSHSL, the MSHSCA and the MnIAAA. The initiative has been driven Featured In This Issue by Jodi Redman of the MSHSL, since it was created. I know Coach Awards ............................20 that many of you have attended the training and, if not, you Distinguished Service Award ................20 should. The course asks each coach to ask questions about Steve Kerzie Award ........................20 themselves that can help coaches see themselves through the Hall of Fame .............................21 lens of the athlete. I believe that every coach needs to address George Haun Awards ......................21 the fundamental question of the “Why We Play”. Why do I coach? Why do I coach the way I do? What does it feel like Baseball Awards ..........................22 to be coached by me? I have looked at these questions and have asked myself; how Clinic Information would our most successful coaches answer the questions? I Tennis Clinic . 4-5 am confident that most would be able to answer each of Track Clinic . 9 the questions in a very positive way. Negativity is not part Softball Clinic . 14 of a successful coach’s identity. I believe the one common Football Clinic . 21 characteristic of successful coaches is their ability to foster relationships. We know from the data, that has been collected, Golf Clinic . 24 www.mshsca.org 2 MINNESOTA PREP COACH The Minnesota MSHSCA OFFICERS AND HALL OF FAME COORDINATORS ADMINISTRATIVE ASS’T: COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Jim & Janet Baker - Bernie Schumacher, Park Rapids PREP COACH Inver Grove Hieghts Published quarterly by the PRESIDENT: MSHSL BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Minnesota State High School Mike Peterson - Perham OFFICIALS DSA Jill Johnson (Waconia) Coaches Association and Mike Peterson - Perham Craig Anderson - Pine Island distributed, without charge, to all PRESIDENT-ELECT: members in good standing. Terry Sadler - Warroad All Daily Communications should FINANCE REPS: EDITOR - Mindy Nielsen be addressed to: Rick Ringeisen - Lakeville South Address all new VICE PRESIDENT: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Nathan Youngs - Dassel-Cokato communications and photos to: Tom Critchley Jr. - DGF John Schumacher Mindy Nielsen MSHSCA SCHOLARSHIP CHAIR: Email: [email protected] PAST PRESIDENT: 16332 Deer View Road Gregg Martig - Pequot Lakes (218) 841-7976 Gary Pratner - Byron Park Rapids, MN 56470 (218) 732-0204 SPORTS MEDICINE: Email: Randy Glasmann - Maple Grove [email protected] Tom Sharp - Eastview 2018-2019 Delegates and Sport Association Officers If you would be interested in filling one of the open Delegate positions please contact John Schumacher, Executive Director SECTION GIRLS SPORTS DELEGATE BOYS SPORTS DELEGATE AT LARGE DELEGATE AT LARGE DELEGATE 1A Gordy Klomps (retired) 2A Rick Bruns (LeSueur-Hend) Rob Stevermer (United SC) Craig Morgan (MN Valley Luth) Alan Woitos (New Ulm Cathedral) 3A Dave Blank (Wabasso) Todd Tinklenberg (Pipestone) 4A Chris Larid (Heritage) Tim Herman (Heritage) 5A Dawn Engebretson (Rockford) Tom Lawrence (Foley) Al Amdahl (Albany) 6A Tavia Bachmann (Frazee) Kyle Haderman (LP/Aud) Mike Peterson (Perham) Gregg Martig (Pequot Lakes) 7A Matt Carlstrom Derek Parendo (Proctor) Jon Wagner (Eveleth-Gilbert) Nathan Johnson (Proctor) 8A Terry Sadler (Warroad) Matt Brandt (Park Rapids) 1AA Jeremy Biermaier (New Prague) John Cassellius (Winona) Rod Schwarz (Winona) (Retired) Bill Goodman (Lakeville South) 2AA Mike Lhotka (Dassel Cokato) Mike McGraw (Hutchinson) Tink Larson (Waseca) Gary Prantner (Eden Prairie) 3AA Jeff Groves (Apple Valley) Tom Sharp (Eastview) 4AA Jessica Allen (Harding) Tom Paulson (White Bear Lk) Tim Ryan (Hill Murray) Jerry Utech (Harding) 5AA Mark O’Neill (Champlin Park) William Totimeh (Fridley) Mark Loahr (Totino Grace) Curt Cardinal (Holy Angels) 6AA David Boone (Edina) Jim Baker (Retired) 7AA Mark Solberg (Cambridge) Bill Baumann (North Branch) Todd Smrekar (Cambridge-Isanta) 8AA Kent Hamre (STMA) Rob Nielsen (Det. Lakes) SPORT ASSOC PRESIDENT PRESIDENT ELECT EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MEMBERSHIP/TREAS. AD Bob Grey (Montevideo) Mike Beck (retired) Adapted Athletics Brett Kosidowski (Eastview) Luke Wisniewski (Minneapolis) Kelli Waalk (Osseo) Baseball Rick Zollner (Pipestone) John Wilkins (retired) Boys Basketball Joel McDonald (Hibbing) Tom Critchley (retired) Girls Basketball Liz Carpentier (Farmington) Brad Strand (Fergus Falls) Carl Pierson (Waconia) Cross Country Chris Goebel (Mora) Mary Schifsky (Roseville) Dave Chatelaine (Owatonna) Dance Jennifer Blaido (Cedar) Kelli McGinnis (Chanhassen) Melissa Hurkman(membership) Football Scott Gonnerman (Benson) Beau Labore (Stillwater) Ron Stolski (Brainerd) Jim Dotseth (Treasurer) Golf Eric Tollefson (Moorhead) Gymnastics Kaitlyn Helmbrecht (Maple Lake) Shelly Eklund ( Eagan) LeeAnn Steen Delegate Boys Hockey John Ammerman (Moorhead) Mike MacMillan (Ramsey) Girls Hockey Shawn Reid (Blake) Tim Morris (St. Anthony) B-Lacrosse Jon Junker (Chanhassen) Chris Fleck (Prior Lake) Matt Myers (Chanhassen) G-Lacrosse Alexandria Ross (Apple Valley) Alex Erickson (Farmington) Alpine Skiing Jason Nickelson (Visitation) Derek Nash Nordic Skiing Rob Lageson (St. Paul Central) Richard Heilman (Lakeville No.) Robotics Alex Jurek (Becker) Soccer Jason Arnebeck (Park) Ben LeVahn (Maple Grove) Keith Randa (Apple Valley) Softball Laura Olson (Maple River) Shelly Hotzler (JCC) B-Swimming Doug Donaldson (Coon Rapids) Todd Walsh (Bloom.Kennedy) G-Swimming Nathan Youngs (Dassel-Cokato) Megan Weiss (Eastridge) Kate Steineman (Cretin DH) Synch. Swim Kathy Henderson (Stillwater) Kathy Bohnsack (Prior Lake) Tennis Dave Wareham (Totino Grace) Al Orthaus (Lake City) Richard Engelstad ( Pine City) Track Aaron Berndt (Wayzata) Scott Christensen (Stillwater) Volleyball Marty Kiebel ( Maple Lake) Becca Pulju (Sebeka) Janet Golden-Landquist (Nevis) Sue Alstrom (Treasurer) Wrestling Neil Jennisson (Cambridge-Isante) Shawn Fredrerixon (Shafer) Kip Lynk (Dassel) Kurt Habeck (Eastview) MINNESOTA PREP COACH 3 President’s Message By: Mike Peterson The fall sports season is done and it didn’t disappoint in back from injury, sickness, or hard times and rejoined their the thrills and elation that we saw throughout competition. team to contribute to the valiant struggle that all teams go Coaches are a rare breed that believe that the process and through in a sports season. the journey are what are important, not so much the wins or Sports particularly high school sports are stories that we losses. Coaches and Athletes when interviewed look back as coaches and athletes are the characters in the story and we and comment on the journey of practices, teammates, ups write that story every season. We are the authors as coaches and downs and fighting through adversity as what mattered and we need to make every effort to write that story to include most to them. These are individuals who go on to achieve everyone and have every player get a life long experience out great things and be great people. of this season. As in a story each character or player in this Athletes want experiences and want to learn how to recover case has a role to play and we as coaches need to maximize from a loss or set back and come out the other side heroic. that role to give them a memory that will last a lifetime. They all love to play the underdog overcoming all odds to We should encourage athletes to dream and to dream big, succeed and we love to watch them do it.