Running a Championship Practice with Adam Sarancik

Sideline Sessions

This week Adam Sarancik returns to the show. Adam is a longtime baseball coach teams have consistently won championships at every youth league and high school level. In administration, he has served as league founder, board member and coaches’ and players’ clinic director. He is also owner of Elevate Sports Academy.

Building on our previous discussion, we cover:

• Running a championship practice and who has a role to play
• Goals and determiners of a championship practice
• Selling players on the idea
• Top 3 questions for coaches to ask
• What do you do if you’re getting “no” to these Qs?
• Taking championship practices into the game
• Goal for a coach: players are excited to come back tomorrow

About the guest:

Adam Sarancik is the owner of Elevate Sports Academy and mentors student-athletes in physical conditioning, nutrition, career and college counseling and sport skills. He has spent most of his adult life mentoring youth ages 8-22 in baseball, softball, soccer and basketball.

In baseball, Adam’s teams have consistently won championships at every youth league and high school level. In administration, he has served as league founder, board member and coaches’ and players’ clinic director many times in his 40+ year coaching career.

His articles have been frequently published in ABCA’s Inside Pitch, in Collegiate Baseball News, and on the CoachesInsider.com, SportsEngine.com and CoachDeck.com websites. He is also a favorite guest on national baseball coaching podcasts. Adam is the author of four Amazon Top 100 Best Selling Baseball coaching books, Coaching Champions for Life – The Process of Mentoring the Person, Athlete and Player, Takeaway Quotes for Coaching Champions for Life; A Ground Ball to Shortstop – How and Why Coaches See Their Game Differently Than Anyone Else, and Teacher, Role Model, Mentor: Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Coaching.

About the host

Ross Romano is co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and also hosts The Authority Podcast. He began his career in the pro sports industry before becoming a leading communications, marketing, and management expert working with education companies. He is founder and CEO of September Strategies, a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success.

Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or LinkedIn. Listen to The Authority: https://authoritypodcast.net.