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RAISING THE GAME. Sports Don't Teach Lessons. Captains & Coaches Do. Training & education to help team leaders realize their potential.

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Three workshops in two cities across four days kicked off the Fall, and I'm fired up about all three.

Marymount University: My alma mater. The Saints Strong Leadership Academy brought in Captains from every team on campus, and this one hit closest to home. Twenty years ago I was a captain on MU's campus, searching for tools to lead my team and pushing our athletic department as SAAC president. Handing the next group of Saints leaders what I wish I'd had was full circle. Can't wait to see what these Captains do for their teams all year round.

St. John's Prep: Shoutout to the Fall sport Captains. They put in real work learning to lead warm ups that form a team and to handle conflict in ways that bring teammates closer. Excited to watch what their teams do this season and check in on them when I return to Prep this Winter for round 2.

UMass Boston Lacrosse: The Beacons took on Lighthouse Leadership as a full team, building an identity on both sides of the ball and getting real reps leading each other through conflict, candor, and banter. Can't wait to see the product they put on the field. Go Beacs!

Grateful to every coach, Captain, and athletic department that trusted me with their teams. Looking forward to building more teams and more leaders with more programs through Captains & Coaches. Raise the Game.

@captainsandcoaches

#CaptainsAndCoaches #RaisetheGame

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DAY 3 is here.

The Sports Performance Coaching Certification Seminar continues tonight with another strong lineup focused on helping our Soldier Coaches grow their knowledge and sharpen their craft.

Tonight’s sessions:

Tex McQuilkin — Cueing & Coaching @captainsandcoaches
Johannah Zabal — Programming & Periodization @coach_jo_
Breakout Rooms — putting the learning into conversation and application

Another night of learning, connection, and practical coaching development with hundreds of members of our military community joining us virtually.

Wednesday, October 21
6:30–9:30 PM EDT
Live & Virtual on Zoom
Free for the military community
Powered by @wwp

Two nights down. Let’s keep building.

Better Coaching. Better Lives.

#SoldiersToSidelines #CoachForLife #SoldierCoach #SportsPerformance #CoachingCertification

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THE LINEUP IS SET.

We’re just days away from the 2026 Sports Performance Coaching Certification Seminar, and this group is bringing some serious knowledge to our Soldier Coaches.

Meet just a few of the coaches and performance leaders joining us:

Johannah Zabal — Sports Performance Director
Martin Rooney — Founder, Training for Warriors
Tex McQuilkin — Captains & Coaches
Steve Watterson — Retired NFL Strength & Conditioning Coach
Giovani Urrutia — Human Performance Specialist
Melissa Mercado — Intro to TeamBuildr
Harrison Bernstein - Founder & CEO Soldiers To Sidelines

Across four virtual evenings, we’ll dive into the tools that help coaches develop better-performing athletes — communication, strength, power, conditioning, speed, agility and more.

October 19–22, 2026
6:30–9:30 PM EDT
100% Virtual
FREE for eligible members of the military community
Powered by @wwp

Veterans. Active Duty. Guard & Reserve. Military Spouses. Gold Star Families.

The countdown is ON.

🔗 Registration is still open — hit the link in our bio and join us!

Better Coaching. Better Lives.

#SoldiersToSidelines #CoachForLife #SportsPerformance #SportsPerformanceCoaching

@coach_jo_
@johannahz
@mcquilkin
@captainsandcoaches
@themartinrooney
@soflete.g
@coach_melissa_mercado

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Mid-West fam visit for The Luke Summers' birthday celebration, Pee-wee football, & sitting down for a 2-hour info-taining C&C pod, as is tradition.

#MidWest

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The SaintsStrong Leadership Academy is back in action for the 2026-27 academic year.

This year’s cohort includes 39 student-athletes representing 15 Marymount athletic programs.

Read more at MarymountSaints.com.

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Change my mind- You learn more from losses than wins.

#motivation #athletemotivation #winning #athletelife #coachlife

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@loonenwater keeping us engaged at the @aocoaching NoBS conference.

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Kicking off the NoBS Conference!

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NEW EPISODE: 148 - Gen X Coaches, Gen Z Captains & the Leadership Gap w/ Martin Rooney

Are captains born, or are they made? And why do so many coaches get the pick wrong?

Tex sits down with Martin Rooney [@themartinrooney] bestselling author of Coach to Coach and High Ten, founder of Training for Warriors, and a coach who's worked with everyone from Army Rangers to UFC champions to high school track teams.

Martin makes the case that captains aren't selected, they emerge, and that handing the title to your best performer or most popular kid by default is one of the most common mistakes coaches make.

He shares the story of a state championship team that won without ever naming a captain, and gets into why today's athletes respond to feedback so differently than they did even ten years ago.

LISTEN NOW - https://linktr.ee/captainsandcoaches

#CaptainsAndCoaches #MartinRooney #CoachingGreatness #TeamCaptain #YouthSportsCoaching @trainingforwarriors

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I pitched this idea to my boy Tex a few months ago! It was so cool catching up on each other's projects over coffee. If you haven't heard of him, check out @captainsandcoaches . If you're in a coaching or leadership position, this is your jam. Salt of the earth people with tons of valuable experience. Even if (especially if) you're coaching your daughter's soccer team, tune in for the best structure.

When asked why I built Dad Grip the storyteller in me wants to add some flare. As if Moses himself commanded I design something to help build a world with bigger forearms... that's not the case.

Dad Grip was made based on something I wanted for myself and I couldn't find anything else like it. If I got through the design process and only ended up making a few for friends and family, I would've considered that a win.

Then it blew up! In 4 months we've built hundreds of Dad Grips and sent them all around the world. A bit more than I was initially ready for tbh but we're ready now! Shout out to @rmfgdotcom

The core Dad Grip community on IG feels like I'm hanging with the boys in the garage. The ideas and support is priceless. That's more than I could have asked for.

The goal wasn't EBITA, 10Xs or LMNOPs. The goal was to make something cool, effective and hopefully make some friends along the way. Dad Grip was made for the boys! 👊🏻

#madefortheboys

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Building Leaders 🗡️

Big thank you to Coach @mcquilkin from @captainsandcoaches for sharing some knowledge with our guys yesterday afternoon on leadership, motivation, much more👏 A great experience in the classroom and on the field for how leaders can be built🌊

#BewaretheBeac #Mission23

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Big day for the 20 fall sport captains at St. John's Prep [@stjohnsprep] in Danvers, Mass. Captains & Coaches was brought in as part of the O'Brien Student-Athlete Leadership Initiative established by Colleen and Bill O'Brien.

Leadership takes reps. These captains put in work, learning to lead warm ups that actually form a team, not just run a drill. They walked away with tools for respectful conflict, the kind that brings a team closer together instead of letting friction quietly pull it apart. Watching them lean into the hard conversations instead of avoiding them was the best part of the day.

Grateful to be part of what the great St John's coaches and athletes, past and present, built here, and to spend the season with these captains as they step into leading their teams on and off the field.

Round 2 this winter. Can't wait to be back. Ready ready.

https://workshop.captainsandcoaches.com/

#SJPCaptains #OBrienLeadershipInitiative #CaptainsAndCoaches #TeamLeadership #TeamCaptain

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