Pete Daines – Founder, Chairman, Director of Coaching & Player at Yateley Silverbacks Basketball Club, Former GB Basketball U18 Team Manager, Head of Boys Sports at Yateley Manor, GB Over 45s Player
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English - April 07, 2021 14:58 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
I’m really excited about today’s Podcast because we’re delving into the world of Sports. This week we have a professional basketball coach, elite player, club founder, and PE teacher Pete Daines (or Mr Daines as our kids know him as!).
Pete set-up the Yateley Silverbacks Basketball Club 11 years ago and in that time the club has won five promotions, two League titles and four Play-off Championships with the adult sides and 8 various titles with the Junior squads. The club has mixed, male and female teams, of all ages starting from U8’s Diddy Dunkers. It’s a wonderful community club that’s like an extended family, and 'I don't work Fridays' are proud sponsors of.
Pete was also Great Britain U18 Team Manager who took his team to 6 European Championships, coached the South of England Youth squads, is a former National League player and a current BE registered referee and coach. He’s recently been selected for the GB over 45s national squad as a player.
Remarkably, this is all in his spare time, because he works full time as Head of Boys Sport at Yateley Manor, where every Friday afternoon he is my boss as I volunteer in helping his department out with Sports lessons and matches, so I get to help coach my 9-year-old twins (and learn an awful lot from Pete and his team).
Listen to this Podcast to learn:
- Managing multiple stakeholders & their expectations.
- How teams take on the personality of their coach and considerations around this.
- Teaching what's in front of you and adapting.
- The importance of getting to know every single individual / child & getting the best out of each one.
- Why seeing with your eyes is more important than any statistic.
- The importance of learning from every single experience, every single day, regardless of how long you've been coaching or teaching for.
- Why sport is one big life lesson.
- Pete's number 1 thing he'd define as a leader