BIO
4th year as Head Coach of Pickens HS (Jasper, GA)Covid shortened season they were 13-2
19th year teaching and coaching
15 years at Cass High School in Cartersville, GA
Served as head coach for the last 5 years at Cass
Hosted the first home playoff game in 30 years at Cass
17U Nelson baseball school manager and in 2019 they were top 40 in the nation and top 5 in the Southeast
Is all about the kids!
IS A DUDE!
Notes
Interviewed faculty members and players, community members of what it meant to be a D...
BIO
- 4th year as Head Coach of Pickens HS (Jasper, GA)
- Covid shortened season they were 13-2
- 19th year teaching and coaching
- 15 years at Cass High School in Cartersville, GA
- Served as head coach for the last 5 years at Cass
- Hosted the first home playoff game in 30 years at Cass
- 17U Nelson baseball school manager and in 2019 they were top 40 in the nation and top 5 in the Southeast
- Is all about the kids!
- IS A DUDE!
Notes
- Interviewed faculty members and players, community members of what it meant to be a Dragon to create a set of core values.
- Google form and put it out on social media to see what it meant to be a Dragon!
- Take all the words and categorized them, and then pick the right words that we are going to be what we are made of (Dragon DNA)
- 5 to thrive to start practice
- Quote of the day
- Core value of the day
- One word focus for the month
- Success hotline
- What we need to do today to be better than yesterday
- Set the expectation early!
- 4:9 - Eclesiastes 4:9 Challenge “2 is better than 1”
- Points to compete with a teammate/group of people
- Clean up
- Games
- Dinner
- Workout
- Weekly point totals
- Winners at the end of the year to eat as a team at the restaurant of their choice
- Football, basketball, and baseball coaches on the same page with the weightroom and grades!
- ****40 minutes!! “Building better men”
- Hitting chart
- Charted every at bat
- Positive and negative points
- Weekly point winner
- QAB shirt - earned and kept
- Keep running total for the silver slugger award for most points
- Pull up scorecard at the end of the game to fill in chart
- The chart took off when it we published it and rewarded it
- BASE2 system in the summer ball - Big Inning, Answer Back, Score First, Extend the lead, score with 2 outs
- Alpha AB’s - runner at 3B no takes, scoring a runner at 2B with 2 outs
- Nelson Baseball School with Brian Nelson summer baseball
- End practice with some type of game
- Winner and loser and losers have consequences
- World treats winners differently
- Execution game, hitting game, conditioning, some type of competition
- At the end of practice each player needs to fish bump and give coaches handshake
- Jason Ryals Pebble Brook High School @coachryals - prints shirts and money going to his inner city school
- @coachwilliams
- @phsbaseballga
- adamwilliams@pickenscountyschools.org
- Pickens_baseball on Instagram
- 404-353-4688
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