Bio
- Current HC and AD Kimberly High School (WI)
- Former HC at Oshkosh North
- Former AC at Xavier University (OH)
- His teams have won 9 FVA - Fox Valley Association Conference championships
- First ever baseball Conference championship at Oshkosh North 2005
- 9 sectional championships at Kimberly
- two state championships at Kimberly (2007, 2017)
- Runner up in 2008, 2014, 2015
- Over thirty players have garnered Academic All-State honors
- Served on the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) Executive Board from 2009-2015 and was the President for two years
- 2022 American Baseball Coaches Association’s (ABCA) Ethics Awards Winner
- ABCA National Convention speaker
- District Coach of the Year three times
- WI State Coach of the Year twice
- ABCA’s Regional Coach of the Year twice
- Former USA Baseball staff member
Note
- Unity council - group of guys once every 3 weeks in fall to winter, once a week after 1st of year
- Returning varsity guys that choose to get more of their experience
- More reflective, more leadership skills,
- Players own it!
- Staff has to hold council accountable
- What do we want to do? Experiences
- Its more than baseball!
- You need to have both, quality school/people and quality baseball experience
- A ballplayer is also a man!!
- It is the competitive environment that we bring to the program
- Attitude of gratitude - we do it everyday so we live it!!
- When you watch video you have to say good first, before you say anything critical
- Who you are as a player you need to overcome as a coach.
- Everything we do in practice is aligned and should make sense.
- Being a champion, being a ballplayer - you are a grinder, you take championship reps
- Be your own best coach - know yourself, take your reps, and know what you need
- The game slows down when you know what your doing
- Pressure happens when you don’t know what’s happening
- Food is a great barrier breaker
- Get on the same store, same section, same shelf, same book, same chapter, same page, same line, same word
- Common vocab - what does it mean to “hustle”
- A whole number of words - give them the definition and what it means to us
- Unity council create core values each year
- This is your definition of ___ do you want to be apart of this?
- Its not you, its your behavior
- You have to be good when you don’t feel great. It is consistency!
- We can have fun without looking in the other dugout
- When the shampoo is rinsed out, its time to move on (good or bad)
- Blue Collar shirts!!!
- Each core value becomes a day, so we make it part of what we do
- During throwing we do and talk to kids about the person
- This guy listens, this really is our class
- My goal is that every single day is to make you want to be here!
- Learned in practice, didn’t learn,
- Defensive checklist - ownership of what we need to work on
- Live, what question, who do you feel exhibited, who is not exhibiting it,
- Defining arm soreness - scale of 1-5 and be clear so we can help your arm so we can use it
- Helps us support the kid and becomes more positive
- Anything we can do to help build a positive relationship, we need to do
- When we are here, this is sacred time, it is special, and we don’t want anything to get in the way of it
- Am I practicing what I preach?
- There is part of practice for your personal development and parts that are team development
- Don’t have an identity crisis - you need to know who you are, and help me understand you better
- Here is how we improve certain metrics -
- How do those metrics help me be a better player
- Credible info for college coach to get recruited
- What is the best fit? Checklist for what you value?
- Excited about, looking forward to, and worried about
- If you are courageous enough to put signs down, then you better be courageous enough to make a mistake
- Cell phone - 920-570-3369
- Email - rmcginnis@kimberly.k12.wi.us
- Its is the process, it is the journey that is the heart of what we do
- Never should we anchor
