Between Whistles

sports, basketball · EN-US

*Between Whistles is a podcast about coaching, sports, and the quiet part.*Most coaching content focuses on the games, the wins, and the highlights. This show focuses on what happens between them.The bus ride home after a hard loss. The empty gym after everyone leaves. The player who walks into your office and closes the door. The conversations no one trains a coach for. The work nobody puts in the job description, but everyone expects a coach to do.I'm Coach Kays, a head varsity basketball coach who has spent almost 25 years on a sideline. Over that time, I've come to realize that a lot of the most important parts of coaching have very little to do with what happens while the clock is running.We'll talk about winning, because I care about winning. We'll talk about losing, players, parents, culture, youth sports, school athletics, leadership, and what this work asks from the people who choose to do it.Some episodes will be about basketball. A lot of them won't be.But most will ev