We have posted a variety of resources here on our site to provide coaches everywhere with insight into how we develop our players. Our methods need not be reproduced exactly to achieve positive results, but rather should be used as a guideline to develop your own techniques to focus on successful player development.
"People do what you inspect,
not what you expect."
- Greg Gatz: UNC strength and conditioning coach
"You can't improve
what you can't measure."
- Doug Williamson: Gallup Research
Institute
Books and Tapes by Anson Dorrance
The Man Watching:
newest book, this one about Anson Dorrance. Written by SI author Tim
Crothers, it covers Dorrance's life and growth as a coach through his
collegiate and national teams and the evolution of the women's side of
the sport. Available at this link:
Amazon.com.
(click images to read
covers!)
The Vision of a Champion: newest book by Anson Dorrance blends technical
advice and inspiration for players, parents, and coaches to achieve
success in soccer. **** READ
EXCERPT! **** Available at this link:
Amazon.com.
Training Soccer Champions: book by Anson Dorrance on the
psychology of training women and methods used at the University of North
Carolina. Available at this link: Amazon.com.
Training
Championship Players and Teams: Three tape (or DVD) video set from Anson Dorrance that highlights
individual training, coaching, and UNC training techniques using the UNC
team. Available at this link: Reedswain.com.
(search keyword: DORRANCE).
