From the Whistle to the Snap

by Dr. Rick McGuire,
University of Missouri Head Men's and Women's Track & Field Coach (1983- 2010);
his athletes' accomplishments included 143 All American recognitions, 110 conference champions, 29 USA National Team members, 7 NCAA Champions, setting 3 collegiate records, and 5 Olympians (2 Olympic Silver Medals);
Graduate Professor and Director of Sport Psychology (Missouri);
Founder and Director of the Missouri Institute for Positive Coaching;
Founder and former Chairman of the USA Track & Field Sport Psychology program;
On staff for 11 USATF National Teams, including the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games;
founding member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) -AASP Fellow (2010);
USTFCCCA George Dales Award (2014);
University of Missouri's Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame (2016);
Missouri Students Association Award for Outstanding Teaching;
College of Education's Pillar of Excellence Award for receiving the High Flyers Awards for Teaching Excellence for 15 consecutive years;
University of Missouri Alumni Association's Faculty-Alumni Award recipient (2010)

Building Your Best FOCUS for Winning Football!

All Coaches want their players to show up on "Game Day" totally FOCUSED, ready to deliver their very BEST PERFORMANCE! Being able to FOCUS, and then totally RE-FOCUS is a vital key to great performance, great achievement, and protecting the opportunity to celebrate great wins! It is so easy to understand the need for FOCUS. Yet for many Coaches and players, to be able to achieve FOCUS or to teach others how to FOCUS is an elusive mystery!

Rick McGuire, a 30 year NCAA Division 1 Coach and nationally recognized leader in Applied Sport Psychology, provides clear and concise ideas and understandings that will guide Football Coaches at all levels in teaching their athletes the SKILL of FOCUS! These will include:

• FOCUS is a skill. FOCUS is a Sports Skill. Like all skills, FOCUS can be taught and learned!
• The Foundation for FOCUS in Football
• The 5 Key Skills to FOCUS in Football
• Taking FOCUS to the Football Field
• How and when to use the FOCUS skills
• How to be totally FOCUSED, and the to be REFOCUSED for the next play ... EVERY PLAY

Every coach wants their players to have the understandings and the skills presented here in From the Whistle to the Snap! Let Coach McGuire help you understand how you can build FOCUS with your team and staff.

"The understandings and skills that are included in From the Whistle to the Snap are used by our players and coaches at every workout, every practice, every day!"
Gary Pinkel, University of Missouri Tigers Head Football Coach

68 pages. 2012.