📅 Date: July 22, 2025
📍 Location: CESA #3
💰 Cost: $200
🎤 Keynote Speaker: Geoff Steinbach, former athletic director, Arrowhead High School

About the Workshop

Coaching Beyond the Game is a one-day professional learning series designed for coaches, athletic directors, and school administrators who want to strengthen their programs through evidence-based coaching practices.

Athletic coaching goes far beyond wins and losses—it’s about shaping students into resilient, engaged, and successful individuals. This workshop will tackle critical challenges in interscholastic athletics, including:

✔️ Communication across programs, parents, and schools
✔️ Fostering a positive team culture
✔️ Reducing bullying and negative behaviors
✔️ Recruiting and retaining student-athletes
✔️ Defining success beyond the scoreboard

Through expert-led sessions, interactive discussions, and hands-on strategy-building, you’ll leave with practical tools to elevate your coaching approach.

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What You’ll Learn

• Strategies for engaging and retaining student-athletes
• Techniques for difficult conversations with students and families
• Ways to foster a culture of winning and losing with grace
• How to develop a coaching playbook aligned with your program’s vision and values

Who Should Attend?

• Coaches and Advisors (Varsity, JV, Youth, Club)
• Athletic Directors
• School Administrators
• Leaders invested in student success through athletics

Keynote Speaker: Geoff Steinbach, Retired Activities Director, Arrowhead High School

Geoff Steinbach is a distinguished leader in athletic administration and coaching, with a career spanning over five decades in Wisconsin and beyond. A dedicated advocate for student-athletes and coaches, Geoff has served in numerous leadership roles, including President of the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association (WADA), President of the Wisconsin Track Coaches Association, and a founding facilitator of the National Senate of Track Coaches Associations.

His impact extends to shaping state and national athletic programs, serving as a liaison to the WIAA Board of Control, and coordinating one of the most respected track coaches’ clinics in the country. Throughout his tenure as an Activities Director and Athletic Director, Geoff fostered excellence in school athletics, mentoring countless athletes and coaches. His contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including induction into the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame (2025) and the Arrowhead High School Hall of Fame (2015).

A lifelong educator, Geoff earned his M.S. in Physical Education Administration from California State University, Long Beach, and a B.S. in Physical Education and U.S. History from Carroll College. Even in retirement, he remains actively involved in coaching, professional development, and supporting the next generation of athletic leaders.

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SCHEDULE
8:15 – 8:45 AM: OPENING SESSION

• Workshop introduction and objectives
• The impact of athletic participation on student success, K-12 and beyond
• The importance of cultivating a coaching mindset, not just Xs and Os

9:00 – 10:15 AM: FOUNDATIONS OF COACHING (ROUND 1)

• Session 1: Responsive Coaching Practices for Positive Outcomes
• Session 2: Understanding and Supporting the Whole Student-Athlete
• Session 3: Program Development: Recruiting and Retaining Athletes

10:30 – 11:45 AM: DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR SUPPORTIVE COACHING (ROUND 2)

• Session 4: Effective Communication with Students, Parents, and Community
• Session 5: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Athletes and Families
• Session 6: Redefining Success: Winning and Losing with Grace

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: LUNCH

12:45 – 2:00 PM: BUILDING AND ASSESSING YOUR PROGRAM (ROUND 3)

• Session 7: Creating Your Performance Coaching Playbook
• Session 8: Aligning Program Vision, Values, and Actions
• Session 9: Supporting Coach Professional Growth

2:15 – 3:00 PM: CLOSING KEYNOTE WITH GEOFF STEINBACH, FORMER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AT ARROWHEAD HIGH SCHOOL

• The power of extracurricular activities in student development
• “Winning kids through sports” – beyond wins and losses
• The lasting impact of effective coaching

WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL GAIN

• Practical strategies to build more consistent athletic programs
• Tools for effective communication with student-athletes and families
• Methods to align program values with coaching practices
• Resources from WIAA and professional coaching organizations

Register today to transform your coaching system and build programs that develop successful student-athletes both on and off the field!