“Mach-ee-es-ski”
Bio
- 11 years as head baseball coach and 1 as Athletic Director at Mauldin HS (SC)
- 36 Players to college, 4 drafted, 1 free-agent signee.
- Former assistant coach at USC Upstate under Matt Fincher and Dorman HS under Ben Waddle (Wah-dle).
- Managed the Brockport Riverbats of the New York Collegiate Summer League in 2007. Has also coached American Legion and Travel baseball.
- Been a member of the USA Baseball Task Force since 2018 scouting for the 14u & 17u Team Championships, along with the several NTIS events.
- From assistant AD, to full time AD at Mauldin since 2020
Notes
- Rely on a tight circle of coaches with any question I may have
- It is so rewarding to see the impact you can have on other programs
- Lean on others who have done it well
- Create the best experience for everyone in every program
- Leadership program within the whole athletic program****
- Build a strong culture within the whole athletic program
- Community service****
- We did a lot of things on a smaller scale and we want to do it on steroids
- Take ownership of what you do and who you are
- It needs to come for a deeper meaning of trust and common ground
- MAVS U - “Motivated Achievers Value Success”
- Based on Tyler Gillum
- Lesson based around the needs of the team
- Be a good teammate, son, study skills, run down
- Group activity, independent activity,
- Have a video and present in front of teammates
- Mavs U becomes the “Cabinet” for the Mauldin HS athletic department
- “What does it mean to be a Mauldin athlete?”
- Cabinet will help with community service
- Community service - miracle league, hospital visits, angel trees, Elementary school after school programs, community clean up
- Kids need to have an appreciation for what they have
- The greatest leader in the world, washed someone else’s feet
- The best leadership is serving other
- The best leadership lesson is serving someone else
- Kids apply and they need to interview to be a part of the leadership task force
- Creating chemistry and not forcing leadership!!**
- Kids need a chance to get to know one another and grow relationships
- Leadership classroom sessions start year 1, as soon as possible!
- Leadership doesn’t matter if those kids don’t care about one another
- Be a good person! Do what you say you are going to do
- Bands based on behavior system. Players moved up with player recommendations and had to justify
- Boat crews - split up the talent and in competitive groups
- Keep them through the fall
- Leader of the crew
- Points for anything we want to compete with
- We are not going to progress the skill until they can verbalize it, teach it, and own it.
- Pinch runner called “game winner”
- We can know everything about a team but if we can’t make plays it doesn’t matter what we know about the other team
- The positive board - write it on the board something positive that has happened in the game. The average fan would not even notice.
- You may never see the finished product, but you need to keep plugging away because something you said will make an impact**
- Curriculum cannot just be 50 straight. It will always change, but you will have your pillars
- Mavs U based on Tyler Gillums Growth U and Brian Cain’s pride program
- Core values and Mission and Vision are voted on each year to own what type of team you want to be
- What does it look like a player, person, and player
- “That’s Mauldin”
- Use the mission and vision statement based on what you want to be about and how you plan on getting there
- Creating chemistry over leadership - what is more important??
- Creating a culture we just want to create something consistent something they can depend on
- We can’t try to do something and replicate something that others are doing
- Coaches need to do things for who they know they have!
- Goes back to growth mindset.
- Twitter - @Maciejewski24
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