USOC Training Design Conference - Day Two

The morning panels were great. Tons of great insights in high performance. Great to catch up with Thomas Rongen. Listening to him speak brought back fond memeories of pre-game and halftime with he Tampa Bay Mutiny. Great coach and communicator, I know he made a better coach. The take home quote of the day was from from Michael Chu - High Performance Coaching Development manager for the New Zealand All Blacks. He said for them and their players there was a singular focus "Playing for the black jersey." Hugh McCutcheon was outstanding, he had some interesting comments on getting away from everything being coach driven and moving toward player empowerment. I will blog more on this in the next few weeks. Scott Higgins from Curling did an excellent short presentation on changing culture, something that many of us have to do. This seminar really got me fired up and reignited some fires that need to be reignited. Off to breakfast and the last morning, more from All Blacks.