EPISODE 4: THERESA BEECKMAN ON BUILDING A WINNING TEAM CULTURE

Theresa Beeckman is a former Division I volleyball coach who saw a problem in college athletics that she is now devoting her professional life to solving: Fix the problem of bad team cultures. How do bad cultures happen? And, what does it do to a coach trying to recruit athletes in an effort to build a dominant program? Coach Beeckman has some great ideas that coaches can apply immediately. Also, Dan talks about early recruiting in college athletics, answers two interesting questions from our podcast listeners, and shares a cool story about a young Division III coach who tried our process for asking an athlete to verbally commit - and found some fist-pumping success.