Morale Boosters

Team morale is helped when each and every player is made to feel important that each player has a role in the outcome of a game. Your only as good as the last player on your team or the weakest coach on the staff. Coach CAmpbell

One little thing that I do in my program is to celebrate each players birthday during a meeting or after a workout that day and present him with a birthday cupcake. Just a little thing, but it means a lot to the players to know the coaches are thinking of them on that manner.

What other little things are going on out there?

Ok I almost forgot my favorite one. We do have a so called player of the week for practice. This is a school tradition that has been going on since 1991. Each Thursday the players have a little talk after practice while still on the practice field. The captains speak and the grand poohbah speaks. What the grand poohbah is, is an elected member of the senior class from the previous senior class' grand poohbah. This guy is like the funny man, yet dedicated member of the senior class. Each week he and the captains pick a practice player of the week. The it is said that that player "has bush". What that means is that they get to jump into a bush that sits outside the locker room on the walk back to school. So all member of the team run up to the bush and form 2 lines by the bush, sort of like two lines when introducing players at the games. Then the player gets a running start and hops into the bush. THIS is the best part of the practice week, well except the games of course.