Athletics

Athletics provide a powerful opportunity for building good character. Skills like work ethic, teamwork, leadership, and integrity contribute to the short-term success of the athlete and team and the long-term development and success of the individual.

We’d be happy to meet with your team and coaches to help you start a sports initiative. We’ll help educate your team about:

the appropriate role of sports in education,
shaping culture to maximize the potential of your team,
how to guide your student-athletes to focus on preparation, hard work, self-discipline, and more.

Our team will also be your guide throughout your continued efforts.

New Resource Highlight

Sport Team Fundamentals

Sport Team Fundamentals align closely with Pursuing Victory With Honor and the CHARACTER COUNTS! framework by emphasizing the development of core ethical values and team culture. Aligned with the Six Pillars of Character, this high school-level resource helps coaches develop athletes’ character skills while shaping a positive team culture. Through structured workouts, audits and self-studies, parent/family connections, and team culture and character quotations, athletes learn to embody these principles in both sports and life.

We Can Help

Our team can assist you in evaluating your athletics initiatives and selecting the services that will help meet your team’s character and leadership goals.

Curricular Resouces and Teaching Tools

Sport Team Fundamentals is our core resource focused on team culture development for high school-level teams and sport organizations. We also offer a variety of character development resources to supplement your teamwork and leadership plans, including: The ESSENTIALS, Resilience & Inclusion, and 7 Yards-The Chris Norton Story.

Professional Development

In our Pursuing Victory With Honor workshop, participants will learn tools and strategies to coach the Six Pillars in athletics and activities by turning values into behaviors, as well as develop implementation plans to Teach, Encourage, Advocate, and Model the Six Pillars of Character on their teams.

In our Sport Team Fundamentals professional development workshop, participants will learn strategies for implementing and integrating team culture workouts into their season.

Assessment

Understanding the culture of your team is the essential step towards getting the competitive edge.

The Sport Team Culture survey gathers parallel data from athletes and coaches. It can provide insight into:

your team culture among athletes,
the coaching practices that shape how your athletes treat each other, and
how your athletes prepare to compete.

Ongoing Consultation

Our team can work with you and discuss:

best practices in athletics initiatives,
brainstorm ideas to Teach, Enforce, Advocate, and Model the Six Pillars in athletics and activities,
methods to keep building your athletics department/organization, coaches, and athletes’ focus on team leadership, culture, and character.

Digital Classroom

View our free sport-specific videos, activities, and lessons in our Digital Classroom.

Get Started Today

Don’t wait another day to integrate on character skills in your athletics inititaties!

Get started by requesting information with the button below. If you like what we provide, we’d love to provide a free consultation to discuss how we can help you reach your goals.

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Success Stories

"Jeff did a phenomenal job engaging such a large group at the end of a long day on the computer screen. It was pertinent and relevant. The examples used were timely. The tools given were very invaluable resources. It was a phenomenal presentation!"

Coach

Downey Unified School District
Downey, CA.

"The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center played an instrumental role in developing The Bulldog Way - the cornerstone for Drake Athletics' culture of success. Their expertise and keen ability to listen and hone in on what’s important, helped to shape a culture for coaches, student-athletes and staff that fostered optimal performance on and off the playing field. "

Sandy Hatfield Club

Former Athletic Director
Drake University

"This is truly stuff that will help us."

Dr. Bill Watson

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“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”

-Knute Rockne

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OF PARENTS AND COACHES BELIEVE SPORTSMANSHIP IS GETTING WORSE

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Building Culture

Your strategy will never outperform your culture. All of the drills and practice plans in the world won’t overcome poor work ethic, bad teamwork, or a lack of accountability.

Your job as a leader is to create a culture that encourages positive behaviors and develops the character needed for your team to perform at its best.

Learn more about Athletics initiatives

Let us tell you how Sport Team Fundamentals or PVWH can help your team goals