Energy – Coach and expect high energy from your athletes. Expect high energy do not be willing to settle for less.
Enthusiasm – Genuine enthusiasm for what you do is contagious. Show your enthusiasm in tone of voice and body language.
Excitement – Look for what is exciting, recognize it and build upon it. In coaching exciting things happen every day.
Excellence – The standard we must go by, accept nothing less. Excellence must be woven into the fiber of the whole program.
Effort – It takes no talent to give effort. A high level of effort is expected, nothing less.
Vern is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several MLS teams as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men's World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets. He has lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe and has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He has a BA in teaching with a coaching minor and an MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.