COLORADO COACH- FALL 2018 FROM THE SPORT PRESIDENTS teams. His point though, is simple and is this: Pep’s training game on the internet is not at the heart of their training and just throwing his exercise into your sessions won’t suddenly have your team playing like City anyway. Instead, I would encourage you to own the style of play you want your team to have and find creative ways to get that out of them. Keep training fresh, but know that every exercise contributes to your players reaching your and their goals. With that advice in mind, I would encourage you to take advantage of the many opportunities for coach development available to you! First and foremost is our multi-sport clinic. We welcomed several excellent clinicians during the July clinic including Jamie Franks, head coach of the currently top 10 ranked University of Denver men and Theresa Echtermeyer, multiple time state champion head coach for the boys and girls at Mountain Vista High School. We also had excellent sessions on injury prevention! Please plan to join us for our fall all-state meeting! It will be held at Fort Collins High School on November 11th at 10:00 am. We will be moving forward with the new process for all-state nomination and voting. Coaches must be members to nominate players from their teams, so please share this with any coach you believe would have interest in their players being nominated and would benefit from membership! I’d like to also take this opportunity to once more congratulate the spring soccer state champions: 5A: Tari Wood – Grandview High School 4A: Mario Garcia – Windsor High School 3A: Denise Sutton – Jefferson Academy 2A: David Criswell – Dawson School Good luck to one and all as you take on the always exhausting and often thankless work of coaching young athletes! We appreciate all that you do! VOLLEYBALL President Larry Deffenbaugh Greetings CHSCA Volleyball Coaches! The new season is upon us and we are in full gear with many exciting and entertaining matches already played! RPI is now being posted so please keep your records up to date on MaxPreps including team statistics. It is very important for the RPI to stay current and up to date for each team throughout the season. This will make all of the difference in your seeding. As a coach we know how hard you work in the summer, during the season, attending meetings. The hours are long and commitment is full. It is your PASSION that makes you and our organization who we are! Thank you! Secondly, it is time to start thinking about nominating a qualified coach for the 2018 Horizon Award and the 2018 Pioneer Award. These are arguably the highest awards honored in our CHSCA Organization for Volleyball besides the prestigious CHSCA Hall of Fame. These two awards will be given out at the CHSAA State Volleyball Tournament in March. The Pioneer Award was established in order to recognize an individual who has helped to “pave” the way for others to follow. His/her service, leadership contributions to volleyball, and longevity have made it possible for others to pursue their passion to coach volleyball. The Horizon Award was established to recognize newer coaches who have been at their schools at least 3 years and whose enthusiasm and involvement in his/her volleyball program has made significant improvements in their school’s overall success. You will be receiving an email soon to request nominations for these awards. Good luck this season and have an amazing school year! BOYS’ BASKETBALL President Joe Ortiz Coaches, Hope all is going well with your preseason workouts. In this times of me first I wanted to share some thoughts on Loyalty. Best of luck this year! Loyalty is having an unwavering commitment to our basketball program. It’s a belief in our system of play and the coaches who implement it. It’s having trust and confidence in your teammates and having genuine happiness for their successes on the court. It’s an understanding that individually or collectively we will go through struggles and through these times we will grow and get stronger but there is no wavering to that commitment. Loyalty is placing the program goals over your own. It’s not about “me getting mine” but about “us getting ours.” It’s about working together to iron out any issues that can arise and not about pointing fingers or placing blame. It’s not about changing schools or looking out for #1. It’s about