Building a Championship High School Baseball Program

with Ron Murphy,
Rio Rancho High School (NM) Head Coach (since 1997);
3x State Championships (2007, 2009, 2013);
2x State Championship Runner-up (2010, 2016);
New Mexico's All-Time Winningest High School Baseball Coach (580+ career wins);
2019-2020 NFHS National Coach of the Year;
2x ABCA Regional Coach of the Year; USA Baseball certified (2019);
New Mexico Baseball Coaches Association (NMBCA) President;
Las Vegas Baseball Academy Camp Instructor (20+ Years);
Rio Rancho High School Sports Hall of Fame (2014);
Newfield High School (NY) Football Hall of Fame (2019);
State Farm Coach of Year (2007);
Played semi-pro Albuquerque League with ABQ Astros

Learn the ins and outs of building a championship high school baseball program from Ron Murphy, one of the most successful high school coaches in the country! Building a program involves more than just coaching baseball. To truly build a program, a high school coach must hire the right assistants, help maintain and improve their facility, promote the program, and deal with players' parents - in addition to many other responsibilities. Coach Murphy leans on more than three decades of experience as a high school baseball coach to guide you in these areas.

Hiring Assistants & Improving Facilities

Hiring the right assistants is a crucial piece to building a championship program. You'll learn the five qualities of a great assistant coach from Coach Murphy. As he says, if you want a great program, you need great assistants.

A great program needs a great facility to play in. Learn from Coach Murphy how you can utilize resources in the community and within your program to help upgrade your facility. Additionally, a championship program can use their facility to highlight successful former players and championship teams in the program's past with banners.

Promoting Your Program & Working with Parents

As the head coach, the job of promoting your program within the school, community, and even nationally often falls on your shoulders. Learn how to promote your program so that you get the recognition you and your players deserve. Coach Murphy details how to use social media to promote your athletes, and make sure the local news outlets are kept up to date on the happenings of your program.

Dealing with parents can make or break a coach. Coach Murphy explains how to get your parents on the same page and set expectations with a beginning of the year parent meeting. Also, you will learn how to handle delicate situations when parents are not happy.

This video from Coach Murphy will help you build support for your program, and provides sage advice on dealing with common situations that you'll encounter as a coach. Watch this, and you'll be sure to skip many headaches that you would have gotten figuring things out on your own!

40 minutes. 2022.