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The Rare Find

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I just finished one of those books that I feel all readers of this Growing the Game Together blog should also take the time to read. Then re-read. Long ago, then US Olympic team coach Terry Liskevych, told me of a study on talent, done with the National Football League general managers at that time. As I recall it now, they were asked what was the one thing an NFL team needed to win the Super Bowl. Since I work to teach socratically, I then ask coaches what they think the NFL GMs said. Answers such as “Communication…” and “Teamwork…” and many others pour in, but what over 25 of the 32 NFL GMs said was “Talent.”

Kessel’s Best Movies for Team Viewing

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A personal list of movies, in no particular order, that might be great for team bonding and inspiration.

May We Please Leave a Court Up?

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Over 20 years ago I was working with the University of Colorado program, working with several club teams to merge them into a single varsity program.

Paralympic Sports Clubs Military Sports Programs x

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I traveled some this summer doing mostly weekend clinics around the USA primarily for coaches and PE teachers at the youth level.

Opportunity is Nowhere

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This is one of my favorite “words” ever, and given the economic situation impacting us all, leads us into the reason for this grow the game set of options – for I see things as now here, never nowhere.

More Volleyball From Vanuatu

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Espiritu Santo…Wrecks to Rainforest — Vanuatu, Discover untouched seclusion and beauty…that is what Carte de Luganville – the map of this town says.

Beachroots Volleyball in Vanuatu

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I have come back to where my grandfather, father and a guy named James Michener once travelled and worked.

Volleyball and Fly Fishing

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I got a new Orvis Helios 3wt recently. Made from the same carbon fiber they use on the Apache helicopters, it is feather light at 1.75 ounces total, and strong as heck, for casting into the afternoon winds along my favorite little streams.

Father’s Day and Volleyball

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My father was my role model in countless ways, and I have done my best raising my kids as a single dad to follow in his World War II veteran footsteps.

To Sit or Stand During Matches?

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This week I got an email from a coach, who asked a great question – sit or stand during match play?