COLORADO COACH- SPRING 2019 FROM THE SPORT PRESIDENTS clinicians will be CSU Pueblo Head Coach Dax Charles, Colorado Mesa University Head Coach Chuck Pipher and Assistant Coach Mike Mendoza. We will also have Mesa’s new Women’s Head Coach Travis Mercado. There will be more details emailed with the schedule of times and locations. VOLLEYBALL President Larry Deffenbaugh Greetings CHSCA Volleyball Coaches! Spring has sprung and everyone is chomping at the bit to get their volleyball together and up and running for summer ball! There are some great team camps around the state to get your squads some playing time at all levels. Many colleges host their own team camps and a number of high school teams around the state host summer tournaments at their schools. Most of these happen in July. Check out the websites at CSU, UNC, Colorado Mines, Adams State, Fort Lewis, Mesa, Western State, CU, DU, Metro State, and more! Some of the team camps are very reasonable. For high school camps, get in touch with coaches you know and they may be able to tell you. Speaking of team camps, the CHSCA will be hosting their annual MULTI- SPORT CLINIC at the Radisson Friday July 26th and Saturday July 27th. We will have a great line up of speakers in a variety of sports including volleyball. Great way to get refocused for the Fall and interact with your colleagues and mentors! More details to follow on CHSCA! www.colohsca.org The CHSCA All State Games are June 4th-8th in Alamosa on the Adams State College Campus. The college is proud to host the games and treats everyone so well! The athletes love it. Volleyball matches are Saturday June 8th. Check out the info on the CHSCA website. www.colohsca.org Remember what a great organization CHSCA is and encourage your coaches at your schools in middle school and high school to apply! $70.00 for all we get in return feels like it’s freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Have a wonderful Spring and Summer! See you at the CHSCA Multi-Sport Clinic in July! Larry Deffenbaugh CHSCA Volleyball President Head Volleyball Coach Arapahoe High School BOYS’ BASKETBALL President Joe Ortiz Basketball coaches, Hope all is well with everyone as you are preparing for spring and summer basketball. Please feel free to reach out to me if I can help in anyway. My e-mail is joseph.ortiz@dcsdk12.org I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the Mental Side of Basketball. Bobby Knight has always said that basketball is 4 parts mental to 1 part physical. I’m not completely sure what the exact breakdown is but I definitely think the game is much more mental then physical. We are constantly sharing with our players what we think their mindset should be about a particular situation. These situations include your mindset for reading the defense on a specific play; how to defend a specific player according to their strengths; how to play against someone who talks trash; how to communicate with a referee who has a strong personality; how to approach your classes at school on a big game day; there are literally hundreds of situations where we will talk to our players about their mindset. We pick and choose what we’ll prepare for based on the urgency of each situation. What I want to do is go into detail of one particular situation. In 2002 we were playing at Arapahoe High School at the time they were ranked 2nd in State and were in first place in league. It was their last home game of the season - their senior night - and they were on a roll. We approached the game as if it were a playoff game. If we could beat them in their gym we knew we could beat anybody the rest of the season. We talked about believing in each other and our game plan. Each and every time something positive happened we were to believe more and more that we could win this game. As it turned out we came out strong in the game but had to overcome some adversity in the second quarter. In the end we prevailed and the win spring boarded us to our First State Championship. Our players understood what their mental approach was supposed to be. They believed in it and they made it happen. BASEBALL President Mark Roberts It gives me great pleasure to announce that CHSCA is moving forward to make High School baseball a bigger part of our organization. I am very excited in leading this endeavor along with my good friend, and our