Best Coaches, Best Practices: Your Path to Personal Excellence

Only Andy Higgins could gather over 100 leading sports coaches, businessmen and women, and parents to write about his favourite subject – coaching! The best coaches share their best practices with you: the reader, the parent, and the coach. Through this collection of instructive, heart-warming, and poignant stories, learn how leading coaches create a safe environment to enable their charges to be the very best they can be. BEST COACHES, BEST PRACTICES will not rest on your bookshelf. The book will be packed along with your ice skates, hockey sticks, swimming gear, and running shoes. Whether you are coaching others, raising a family, or simply living life in the best possible way, BEST COACHES, BEST PRACTICES will help bring out your best.

Andy Higgins has coached in Canada from high school to the highest international levels over a 40-year span. He has guided some of Canada’s best track and field athletes to the podium in numerous major games, and in his 24 years at the University of Toronto guided the men’s and women’s track and field programmes to national prominence. Andy is a founding member and past president of the Canadian Professional Coaches Association and most recently has been a speaker, coach, and workshop leader dealing with excellence to the corporate world. He is also Director of the National Coaching Institute Ontario.