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Tradition Class Pride: Building a Cross Country Dynasty
Authors Ben Rosario and Jim Linhares unleash the secrets to building a high school cross country dynasty in this incredibly unique book on coaching. They cover everything from pre-season parent meetings to post-season awards banquets, as well as how to train and peak for Championship meets. In between, Linhares shares stories of success (and failure) from his 25 year career.
354 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 2015
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December 12, 2018
Tradition Class Pride: Building a Cross Country Dynasty
The novel centered around coaching a successful high school cross country team was not only a good read with helpful stories but also informative, going into great detail about the everyday and long term goals of a coach, as well as the little moving parts of creating a successful program. A coach of a highly successful program from Missouri writes with one of his former runners, also now a coach, of his way of molding the high school into a cross country power. Using the defining terms of the program (Tradition, Class, Pride) the two authors discuss day to day practices, meets, and the way the coach should act and interact with others.
This book was especially powerful to me as a runner who is still learning the intricacies of the sport. Learning the specific parts that the professional coaches focus on in practices to work on with kids is something that I can take into my life. For coaches reading the book, the issues of coaching high school kids with problems of their own is important. High schoolers come with natural insecurities and issues of their own. Learning to work with that, establish trust, and push them is a large part of coaching and a central theme of the novel. I would recommend it to runners everywhere as a look into a different coaches thoughts on running, but especially to new high school cross country coaches as they learn the intricacies of coaching. This novel should be picked up because of its significance for runners everywhere as a coaching manual and guide to running.
The novel centered around coaching a successful high school cross country team was not only a good read with helpful stories but also informative, going into great detail about the everyday and long term goals of a coach, as well as the little moving parts of creating a successful program. A coach of a highly successful program from Missouri writes with one of his former runners, also now a coach, of his way of molding the high school into a cross country power. Using the defining terms of the program (Tradition, Class, Pride) the two authors discuss day to day practices, meets, and the way the coach should act and interact with others.
This book was especially powerful to me as a runner who is still learning the intricacies of the sport. Learning the specific parts that the professional coaches focus on in practices to work on with kids is something that I can take into my life. For coaches reading the book, the issues of coaching high school kids with problems of their own is important. High schoolers come with natural insecurities and issues of their own. Learning to work with that, establish trust, and push them is a large part of coaching and a central theme of the novel. I would recommend it to runners everywhere as a look into a different coaches thoughts on running, but especially to new high school cross country coaches as they learn the intricacies of coaching. This novel should be picked up because of its significance for runners everywhere as a coaching manual and guide to running.
June 15, 2020
Wow! An amazing book! So much detail – a blueprint for building your own HS Cross Country team. I think any HS coach or runner would benefit from reading this book. All runners and racers would benefit too.
Stories, details and examples. So much written about the nuts and bolts and the nuances of developing a high school XC team. In this case, Missouri’s St. Louis University High School. Extensive information is writing about many aspects of training and racing. There is great detail about developing the character of the high school runners. Many stories and much history of this school’s storied XC accomplishments.
Example workouts, training plans, coaching philosophies, coach / team speeches, etc. This book is packed with information.
Stories, details and examples. So much written about the nuts and bolts and the nuances of developing a high school XC team. In this case, Missouri’s St. Louis University High School. Extensive information is writing about many aspects of training and racing. There is great detail about developing the character of the high school runners. Many stories and much history of this school’s storied XC accomplishments.
Example workouts, training plans, coaching philosophies, coach / team speeches, etc. This book is packed with information.
January 17, 2019
This wasn't exactly what I thought it was but enjoyed it nonetheless. A pretty detailed guide for building a high school cross country dynasty. If you're into that sort of thing. Lots of great stories and really detailed workouts and advice. Why am I reading this? Not sure but it was fun.
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