A Great Coach is Love

by Dee, Justin

• ISBN13: 9781667886886
• ISBN10: 1667886886
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-05-11
• Publisher: BookBaby
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Summary

In 20 years, they will not remember what you taught them, but they will remember how you treated them. To connect with our athletes, we need to love them. Even more than that, we need to BE love to them. Love is defined in the Bible, specifically in 1st Corinthians chapter 13.

Love is defined in the Bible specifically in 1 Corinthians 13. We need to use those characteristics with our athletes to add value to their lives and their journey. As a Christian coach, we strive daily to be like Christ. If we are to be like Christ, we need to be like love. We need to strive to BE love. God has given us a HUGE opportunity to invest in athletes lives as their coach. If we are to be like Christ and Christ is love, we need to strive to be love to our athletes by adopting those characteristics into our coaching of our athletes.

A Great Coach is Love is a manual to help the reader become a better, more fulfilled, happier, and more influential coach by incorporating the words and ideas of God into a coaching philosophy. More specifically, the author, a volleyball coach, believes that learning to love, and personifying love to players, is the best way to be a well-rounded and successful coach. In this scenario, "successful" does not necessarily mean having the most wins. A successful coach produces the best human beings out of his program. By showing players how to love, and how to be loved, through God, a coach will be successful.

The chapters of the book are structured around the main tenets of love told to us in 1 Corinthians. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of love, and is then tied to a methodology of coaching, and approaching athletes and sports/competition.

The strength of this manuscript is the straight-forward language used to relay the main points the author wishes to make. The ideas are presented in a simple way, each chapter is tied to a Bible verse, and then the ideas are extrapolated out to show how they tie back to different aspects of coaching. The author, himself a coach, uses his own life examples to show successes and failures when trying to adopt these ideas.

A Great Coach is Love is a well-written, informative, and thought-provoking manuscript that will be of tremendous use to any coach who wishes to learn the ways to incorporate God's thoughts on love into not only his coaching philosophy, but also life in general. By following the advice of the author, the reader will not only find "success"' as a coach, but also positively impact those athletes who he instructs, both in and out of sports.

Author Biography

Coach Justin Dee has coached volleyball at every level from Middle School through to the NCAA Division 1 over the last four decades. He has won numerous Coach of the Year awards across Club, High School, and College.

His coaching legacy spreads from Florida through to California but spent most of his coaching career in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. He spent his time building champions through the USA Volleyball's High-Performance program in the Delta Region where he served as Director and Lead Coach.

He is the founder of The Volley Academy and has developed online courses on how to be a great teammate and college volleyball recruiting. He has developed a podcast "TVA Devotions" that allows players who are on the road during club volleyball tournaments and not able to attend their home church to still be encouraged through the Word of God. His life Verse is Philippians 1:27 which states: "Whatever happens, conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ."

His purpose in life is to add value to others. He is living his purpose out on the platform of coaching and now his first book which you have in your hand today.