102 - Ryan McGinnis: Kimberly HS (WI)

Bio 

• Current HC and AD Kimberly High School  (WI)
• Former HC at Oshkosh North 
• Former AC at Xavier University (OH)
• His teams have won 9 FVA - Fox Valley Association Conference championships 
  • First ever baseball Conference championship at Oshkosh North 2005
• 9 sectional championships at Kimberly
• two state championships at Kimberly (2007, 2017)
  • Runner up in 2008, 2014, 2015
• Over thirty players have garnered Academic All-State honors
• Served on the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) Executive Board from 2009-2015 and was the President for two years
• 2022 American Baseball Coaches Association’s (ABCA) Ethics Awards Winner
• ABCA National Convention speaker
• District Coach of the Year three times
• WI State Coach of the Year twice
• ABCA’s Regional Coach of the Year twice
• Former USA Baseball staff member 

 

Note

• Unity council - group of guys once every 3 weeks in fall to winter, once a week after 1st of year
  • Returning varsity guys that choose to get more of their experience 
  • More reflective, more leadership skills, 
  • Players own it!
  • Staff has to hold council accountable
  • What do we want to do? Experiences
  • Its more than baseball!
• You need to have both, quality school/people and quality baseball experience
• A ballplayer is also a man!!
• It is the competitive environment that we bring to the program
• Attitude of gratitude - we do it everyday so we live it!!
• When you watch video you have to say good first, before you say anything critical
• Who you are as a player you need to overcome as a coach.
• Everything we do in practice is aligned and should make sense. 
  • Being a champion, being a ballplayer - you are a grinder, you take championship reps 
• Be your own best coach - know yourself, take your reps, and know what you need
• The game slows down when you know what your doing
• Pressure happens when you don’t know what’s happening
• Food is a great barrier breaker
• Get on the same store, same section, same shelf, same book, same chapter, same page, same line, same word
• Common vocab - what does it mean to “hustle”
• A whole number of words - give them the definition and what it means to us
• Unity council create core values each year
• This is your definition of ___ do you want to be apart of this?
• Its not you, its your behavior
• You have to be good when you don’t feel great. It is consistency!
• We can have fun without looking in the other dugout
• When the shampoo is rinsed out, its time to move on (good or bad)
• Blue Collar shirts!!! 
• Each core value becomes a day, so we make it part of what we do
• During throwing we do and talk to kids about the person
• This guy listens, this really is our class
• My goal is that every single day is to make you want to be here!
• Learned in practice, didn’t learn, 
• Defensive checklist - ownership of what we need to work on
• Live, what question, who do you feel exhibited, who is not exhibiting it, 
• Defining arm soreness - scale of 1-5 and be clear so we can help your arm so we can use it
  • Helps us support the kid and becomes more positive
• Anything we can do to help build a positive relationship, we need to do
• When we are here, this is sacred time, it is special, and we don’t want anything to get in the way of it
• Am I practicing what I preach?
• There is part of practice for your personal development and parts that are team development
• Don’t have an identity crisis - you need to know who you are, and help me understand you better
• Here is how we improve certain metrics - 
  • How do those metrics help me be a better player
• Credible info for college coach to get recruited
• What is the best fit? Checklist for what you value?
• Excited about, looking forward to, and worried about
• If you are courageous enough to put signs down, then you better be courageous enough to make a mistake
• Cell phone - 920-570-3369
• Email - rmcginnis@kimberly.k12.wi.us
• Its is the process, it is the journey that is the heart of what we do
• Never should we anchor