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Lake Zurich Baseball, Softball Coach Wins Award

Jeff Guzak wins Positive Coaching Alliance's Double-Goal Coach® Award

Jeff Guzak, a coach for  has won Positive Coaching Alliance’s coveted Double-Goal Coach Award for his positive impact on youth athletes. The award is named for coaches who strive to win while pursuing the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports.

 

“Jeff helps youth athletes win on and off the field,” said Jim Thompson, founder and CEO of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) and author of eight books on youth sports, including The Power of Double-Goal Coaching. “By creating a positive, character-building youth sports experience, and serving as a Double-Goal Coach, Jeff helps youth develop into better athletes and better people.” 

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Guzak manages to win games while being known to lead his teams in a pre-game chant of their motto: “Play great. Have fun. Not in that order.”  

His values showed in last season’s playoffs when an opposing team could field only eight players, and his players voted unanimously to waive the “automatic out” rule the league would have imposed against an eight-player team.  

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“Our kids will always remember they showed a lot of class,” Guzak said. “It was a great life lesson and a great teaching moment.”

 

About Positive Coaching Alliance

Since its founding within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance has helped develop “Better Athletes, Better People” primarily through live group workshops, online courses and books by PCA Founder Jim Thompson for youth and high school sports coaches, parents, student-athletes and school/organizational leaders. 

In partnership with nearly 2,000 schools and youth sports organizations nationwide, PCA has conducted more than 11,000 live group workshops and impacted nearly 5 million youth.

PCA workshops and courses strive to establish these prevailing models in youth and high school sports:

  • The Double-Goal Coach®, who strives to win while also pursuing the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports
  • The Second-Goal Parent®, who concentrates on life lessons, while letting coaches and athletes focus on competing
  • The Triple-Impact Competitor®, who strives to impact sport on three levels by improving oneself, teammates and the game as a whole.

 

PCA has the support of elite coaches and athletes on a National Advisory Board, including National Spokesperson and 11-time NBA Champion Coach Phil Jackson.

Submitted by Positive Coaching Alliance.


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