Melrose Lady Raiders Volleyball

Watching the World Baseball Classic, Kevin Youkilis marveled at great players having "good at bats" instead of constantly worrying...

High school sport careers fly by. Excellence tools catalyze the rest of your life. Control what you can control - attitude, choices, effort ...

How good do you want to be ?  "If you're gonna be excellent or elite, you've got to do special things ."  Making the team ...

Be intentional. Develop skill, tactics, physicality, and resilience. Learn from experts.  Success is a choice .  Coach Jiri Popelka's we...

Here's a twentieth anniversary column written for Boston Dirt Dogs in May 2003 for Mothers Day.  Five Words May brings us Mother’s Day, ...

The youngest professor at Penn, Adam Grant says he's far from perfect. Students offered him the chance at investing in their business. H...

I recently published this piece on " whatever it takes " including a video with jump exercises from Coach Jiri. I bought a medium ...

"Leaders make leaders." Use 'distributed leadership' as a tool to develop leaders. The best teams have leadership that is ...

Writing has value for others and for us. Writing helps us focus our thinking and communication. Adam Grant's   Think Again  shares a lot...

Be open to 'pearls' from every coach you encounter. Coach Jiri shares volleyball wisdom. Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban lays out ...

Quick share from Professor Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Think Again. The youngest to earn a professorship at Penn, there are reas...

Study great historical figures to gain life insights. Benjamin Franklin was a legendary thinker. Here are a few of his accomplishments: Sci...

"Invert, always invert" said mathematician Carl Jacobi. Most people crave approval and positive feedback . Deny others approval an...

Great ideas work across cultures.  Bring "Beginner's Mind" to our work, our avocations. Be fresh, be open to possibility, be  ...

"Read. Read. Read. Read. Read." - Werner Herzog, Director "Teaching" is both art and a science. Consciously or not, teac...

Author Salman Rushdie notes that certain writers have a unique style - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison.   “Wha...

Appeal to emotion. Coach Mike Krzyzewski had to motivate NBA professionals to win Olympic Gold.   He took the team on a New York ferry, poin...

Study process. "We make our habits and our habits make us."  Develop winning routines, winning structure. Steve Kerr - culture, me...

Get past hard, get past mad. Your growth and your choices define your future. Here are thirty seconds of reality... "the biggest obstac...

Melrose adds Ryan Celli as a Varsity Assistant for Melrose Volleyball. Coach Celli grew up around the game and has a history of achievement....