About Coaching The Future

Who Are We?

We are a small nonprofit organization based out of Mendham, NJ. Our goals are to provide high quality services that will help our youth develop into the best versions of themselves on the field, as people, and in their community. We strive to unlock everyone’s potential and help world changers!

Mission Statement

At Coaching the Future, we coach athletes to be the best versions of themselves on the field, but more importantly in every aspect of life through the emphasis of core values, character, and individuality in an effort to help our youth, our future, be successful in life. We are striving to change the future: one athlete, one dream at a time.

Slogan

A better future is built through the youth!

Coaching Philosophy

Sports is the closest “simulation” to life and the real world that you will find because sports shows us and allows us to practice so many different aspects of life. Many people don’t realize this, and it is a crucial aspect of sport to miss. Sports is about opportunity, and taking advantage of this simulation of life is the most important opportunity of them all. Whether you compete on a track, mat, court, or field that is your home. Your teammates are your brothers and sisters, and your coaches are mothers and fathers. Just like with your actual family, you may not always get along, you may know some family better than others, but you will always respect your family because you always share some form of connection or another. Our team is a family, we are all their to support each other through the highs and the lows, to push each other to be the best versions of ourselves, to reach common and individual goals, and to compete for and with one another. We will defend our home and try to overtake our opponents home. Team stands for, together everyone achieves more.

I acknowledge that our athletes are student-athletes, not just athletes, but I also realize and respect that their lives and what they’re capable of goes far beyond the field and the classroom. Our student-athletes are the future of our society. Our student-athletes will thrive, and they will struggle. We will celebrate and support them when they thrive and we will pick them up, help them, and support them when they struggle. Thriving or struggling, whatever our student-athletes go through, we understand that it is part of their story, their life.

The way I see it, there are four sides to every student-athlete, and they all need to be dealt with differently in an effort to watch the student-athletes succeed in all aspects. In order, student-athletes are family members first, people second, students third, and athletes fourth. We strive to push our players to be the best they can be by themselves in all four aspects with help and guidance provided only when necessary. Family is and always will be one of the most important aspects of our lives, we can’t lead our athletes to think otherwise, it is crucial to make sure that if their family is needed they are there without penalty. Family must always be a priority. Building on, our players are also the future and the young adults that kids look up to on and off the field. This is why we focus on creating the best people possible first. We realize that our player’s futures cannot exist unless they first succeed in the classroom, and this is why we focus on academics over athletics. As a coach I am expected to produce great athletes, but I believe that it is amoral to watch athletes succeed on the field and in the sport, but struggle in other aspects of life. I need to know that my student-athletes are great people who are succeeding in the classroom and are on a path to succeed in life before they focus on athletics. Athletics doesn’t last forever, but the other things we focus on such as family, character, and academics do matter throughout the entirety of your life. These reasons are why we treat our players as athletes last; however, just because we focus on athletics last, does not mean we do not put as much time and effort into it. Our student-athletes will still be just as prepared, if not more prepared than their opponent to play a full game physically, mentally, and emotionally each gameday.