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A new kind of coaching & teaching tool!
Focus on long-term success
- Measure hustle — concentration and effort
- Build a culture of accountability
- Develop your student-athletes into better people
As an athletic director, I love when I watch players give everything they’ve got, and I love when I watch a coach build courage by encouraging great effort. Now, Focus gives us an opportunity for a coach to be able to measure that hustle and see the heart of the player in the unseen, little, behind-the-scenes things.
Mike Ellson, Athletic Director, Christian Presbyterian Academy
Thank you again to both of you for all you do to help athletic directors and coaches to build a culture that our student-athletes can implement daily!
Patrick Miller, Athletic Director, Northeast Middle School
We’ve done our research.
Through interviews and surveys with championship-level coaches, we’ve learned exactly what coaches want in order to build long-term success within their program. This 3 min video shares it all!
We have loved using the Focus app this season to track and chart the small details that make our system effective. We are able to teach and present data on controllable actions that directly contribute to our offensive and defensive consistency and success. We have already seen incremental improvements individually and as a team!
Carly Thibault, Women’s Basketball, University of Minnesota
Focus has been very beneficial and a great addition for our program to track numbers, track performance, and give our players hard evidence to accompany film to help us grow collectively. We are in a data driven game and the more data a team can have to track progress, aids in the development and growth of a program. Focus is a fun, interactive way for our kids and staff to be on the same page and to hold each other accountable by the numbers.
Van Green, Men’s Basketball, Rice University
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College Baseball Program Builds Culture & Success with the Focus App
After a 3-year hiatus due to Covid and staff turnover, the Miami University Middletown baseball program returned this fall and defied all expectations. How did the youngest college baseball team in the country, led by a coach with no prior experience coaching college baseball, achieve a 12-5 record – the best winning-percentage in program history and first winning-season since 2000? Focus.
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