DEFINING EXCELLENCE

Excellence is never an accident. It is achieved in a “Team” only as a result of an unrelenting and vigorous insistence on the highest standards of performance. It requires an unswerving expectancy of quality from the coaches and players.


Excellence is contagious. It infects and affects everyone on the team. It charts the direction of the program. It establishes the criteria for planning. It provides zest and vitality to the team. Once achieved, excellence has a talent for permeating every aspect of the life of the team.

Excellence demands commitment and a tenacious dedication from the leadership of the team. Once it is accepted and expected, it must be nourished and continually reviewed and renewed. It is never ending process of striving and searching. It requires a spirit of mission and boundless energy. It is always the result of a creatively conceived and precisely planned effort.

Excellence inspires. It electrifies. It empowers every phase of the organization’s life. It unleashes an impact, which influences every program, every activity, every player, and every coach. To instill it in an organization is difficult: to sustain it, even more so. It demands adaptability, imagination and vigor. But most of all, it requires from the leadership of the “Team” a constant state of self-discovery and discipline.

Excellence must be our “Teams” lifeline. It energizes a stimulating and pulsating force (One Heart Beat). Excellence as an athlete is important…. Because it is everything.