Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS™ help coaches in competitive athletics achieve excellence with integrity.
Base to Summit Journey
Each competitive season is a journey from the base to the summit. Our Acclimatizing Team Culture For Optimal Performance approach means coaching that is both Demanding and Responsive and creates Team Confidence and Trust that are needed to summit safely — to achieve Excellence with Integrity!
Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS™ help coaches prepare their teams for what lies ahead and adjust to what unfolds on the journey to the summit.
Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS™ are built with and for coaches!
The Workouts, Tools, and support resources are calibrated to meet the needs and circumstances of competitive athletics. They are based on the many years of applied research and implementation in Division I, II, III collegiate teams and departments.
FUNDAMENTALS target core strengths of team culture and character needed for optimal performance:
- goal achievement,
- leverage of strengths and weaknesses (SWOT),
- establishing team norms and leadership expectations,
- personal and collective integrity in action,
- responding with a growth mindset,
- handling pressure and responding to stress,
- winning feedback,
- controlling focus,
- failure resilience,
- team flow, and others.
Fundamentals Materials
The full package of instructional resources includes:
- Guides for Coaches with instructional videos (12 topics),
- Team Playbooks with Excellence with Integrity TOOLS® and reflections,
- Team Culture Audits,
- Optimal Performance Self-Studies,
- Team Culture and Character Quotations library,
- Shaping Parent Culture instructional video.
Trainings and Team Culture Survey are also available.
Base to Summit Plan
To grow and summit safely:
Pre-Season: We visualize our what (goals) by our how: our culture norms and expectations.
In-Season: We build and reinforce the strengths of culture and character needed for resilience and adaptability.
Season Summit: We forge strength and unity as we pull forward all the learning, growth, and capacity developed from the journey and go all-in for our summit goals.
Post-Season: Win or lose, we bring closure to this journey and use the learning gained to help in future journeys to future summits.
I’ve been fortunate to play with and coach teams that reached the top of the mountain, and I have witnessed that it’s never talent alone that gets you there. It’s character, it’s culture, and it’s the daily commitment to something bigger than yourself. Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS™ captures that truth and makes it accessible for every team, at every level.
What I appreciate most is that it isn’t just theory. The playbooks, tools, and reflections are practical ways for a team to talk about trust, resilience, integrity, and mindset—these and other cultural pieces that make a huge difference when the game is on the line.
Trevor Tierney
Performance Coach, Educator, and Former Collegiate and Professional Athlete
Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS™ are delivered in partnership with The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center at Drake University.
To find out more, call 515-271-1910 or contact raycenter@drake.edu.
High School Sport Culture Survey
Supports optimal performance by:
Using data as a tool through implementation that is safe, fair, and balanced for all stakeholders.
Providing actionable insights for strengthening team culture and performance.
Contact our team (315-692-8054) to put our solutions to work for you.