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HK contributors reign supreme in NCAA swimming and diving championships

Two contributors to The Swim Coaching Bible have taken their respective teams all the way this year, capping off the 2004-2005 season with NCAA swimming and diving championships. David Marsh, who contributed the chapter "Relay Training," helped lead the Auburn men's team to its third consecutive title, while Jack Bauerle coached the Georgia Lady Bulldogs to their first NCAA women's swimming and diving title since 2001.

Sports Shorts

Developing a Coaching Philosophy

From Coaching Cross Country Successfully
By Joe Newton

My advice to you coaches is not to feel discouraged if you inherit a lackluster program. York started cross country in 1939 and had never even won a conference championship. The previous three years they had ranked near the bottom. My first look at the York team might have been depressing, but it wasn't. I looked at it as an opportunity, since we could only improve.

Baserunning Energy Regulation

From Focused for Fastpitch
By Gloria Solomon and Andrea Becker

The explosive power needed to make sudden movements requires players to exert enormous amounts of energy on command. This is particularly challenging when a player must transition from swinging the bat to getting out of the box. These movements are completely different. Hitting requires the production of force to manipulate an object (the bat), and running requires the generation of power to move the body.

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