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Educational Coaching & Business Communications specializes in niche informational guidebooks for athletes, parents, coaches, educators and leaders. Our Winston-Salem, North Carolina based company is committed to providing quality information and personalized service. Our mission is uncomplicated--to bring you the best guidance available in a concise, easy to understand format. www.ecbcommunications.com

About Dan Spainhour Dan Spainhour has more than 25 years of high school and college coaching experience. He has received numerous awards during his coaching career, including three state championships and fourteen coach of the year honors. His teams have collected more than 400 victories. Spainhour recently returned to high school coaching after serving as the director of basketball operations for Florida State University. At Florida State, Spainhour was involved in all phases of the day-to-day operations of the men's basketball office. He handled the on campus recruiting, recruiting mailings, office and team fiscal matters, team travel, academic development, dining and housing contracts and served as the director of the annual Leonard Hamilton basketball camp for boys. He helped led the Seminoles to the quarterfinals of the National Invitational Tournament in 2005. He also coached at the University of Miami where he worked under current Florida State coach, Leonard Hamilton. During his time at Miami he helped lead the Hurricanes to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 38 years. As a high school athletic director as well as baseball and basketball coach, he has helped student-athletes earn numerous scholarships. His personal experience at both the high school and college level convinced him there was tremendous need for a recruiting guide for parents. He is the founder of Educational Coaching and Business Communications, a company that specializes in informational manuals for educators, parents, coaches and athletes. He is the author of many books and articles including--How To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide to Recruiting; Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders; A Season in Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the Postseason; and How to Run A Basketball Camp: A Guide to a Successful Basketball Camp. Spainhour is a recipient of the Governor's Laurel Wreath Award as an Ambassador of Athletics in the State of North Carolina. He and his wife Cara reside in Winston-Salem, NC.


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How To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide to Recruiting

How To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide to RecruitingHow To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide to Recruiting (book)

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Designed specifically for parents, this guide teaches you strategies that give your child the best opportunity to become a college athlete. This easy-to-read guidebook contains valuable recruiting tips, detailed appendixes, sample letters and forms, and a Q & A section that can be used by athletes in all sports. Learn the secrets of recruiting. Written by Dan Spainhour who has more than 25 years of college and high school coaching experience. Spainhour recently returned to high school coaching after serving as the director of basketball operations for Florida State University. At Florida State, Spainhour was involved in all phases of the men's basketball office. He handled on-campus recruiting, recruiting mailings, fiscal matters, team travel, and academic development. As an athletic director as well as baseball and basketball coach, he has helped students earn numerous scholarships. His experience at both the high school and college level convinced him there was tremendous need for this guide.
A Season In Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the PostSeason

A Season In Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the PostSeasonA Season In Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the PostSeason (book)

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A Season In Words takes you through your season and provides you with motivational quotes for situations as they arise. This guide puts motivational thoughts suitable for what's happening at a particular moment of your season at your fingertips. Quotes are organized into files according to your season not by generalized topics. Each file is filled with quotations that motivate and inspire your team to reach its true potential. There are more than 1600 opinions, insights, and wits of wisdom to help guide your team through the season. The book’s purpose is to help prepare you for any situation that may arise. We all have seen numerous publications filled with motivational and inspiring quotes. A Season in Words separates itself from the others with the number and depth of its quotes and with the highly organized 14 situations that the manual focuses on. A Season in Words is a practical tool that could aid any coach as he communicates with his team.
Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide For Coaches and Leaders

Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide For Coaches and LeadersCoach Yourself: A Motivational Guide For Coaches and Leaders (book)

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As coaches and leaders it is easy to focus so much attention on others that we can lose sight of ourselves. Burnout, fatigue, and health issues are all too common occurrences. Coaching can be a tremendous amount of stress, and sometimes if you're not in control of it problems arise. Long hours, poor eating habits, loss of family time are just a few examples that can cause you to become out of balance. This book is about maintaining a healthy balance. I have had the opportunity to observe successful coaches and some not so successful. I know coaches who love their job and some who hate what they do. I’ve worked with people who were consumed so much that they never took a vacation and others who seemed to be on permanent vacation. Coaches who are in balance and feel good do a better job. The purpose of this collection is to provide you with an instrument to help you maintain proper balance and motivation.
How To Run A Basketball Camp: A Guide to Directing a Successful Basketball Camp

How To Run A Basketball Camp: A Guide to Directing a Successful Basketball CampHow To Run A Basketball Camp: A Guide to Directing a Successful Basketball Camp (book)

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Includes forms, handouts, fundamentals, schedules--everything you need to conduct a winning camp. The purpose of this manual is to provide you with a guide for conducting your own camp. If you are currently running a camp this guide can give you some ideas that may help you improve upon it. If you are considering starting a camp then this guide will take you step-by-step through the process. It is designed to show you how we started and how we conduct East Coast Basketball Camps. You will find everything you need to run a successful camp year after year." Coach Dan Spainhour
Special E-Report: The Leading Motivator--Inspiring Leaders to Inspire Others

Special E-Report: The Leading Motivator--Inspiring Leaders to Inspire OthersSpecial E-Report: The Leading Motivator--Inspiring Leaders to Inspire Others (e-book)

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This eight page newsletter report is perfect for anyone who is responsible for keeping people enthused, motivated, and productive. This special e-report is founded on the belief that professional leaders need their information to be provided in the most efficient, timesaving format available.The Leading Motivator’s Contents:Ethical Decision Making; Change Brings About Change; Motivating Thoughts; Leading the Unmotivated; Give feedback that motivates; Keep your skills sharpened; Steps for effective communication; Gain respect through managing; Americans are working longer, harder; Relationships, not necessarily friendships; Ideas to avoid burnout; Six stress busters; What’s for lunch; First things first; Honorable Loyalty; Sources of motivation; Management vs. leadership; Just a thought; Seven methods for daily motivation
Special E-Report: The Sports Parent--Advising Your Child Through Sports

Special E-Report: The Sports Parent--Advising Your Child Through SportsSpecial E-Report: The Sports Parent--Advising Your Child Through Sports (e-book)

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This eight page newsletter report is filled with information and tips designed to improve your child's sports experience. Contents: Steps to Avoid Future Burnout; Avoid Heat Related Problems; Beware of these recruiting issues; The Recruiting Corner; Behavior Modification Test; Benefits of Athletics;Sports and Smoking; Steroids: Parents Beware; Read this before buying your child's next baseball bat; Baseball Field Dimensions (up to age 12); Teaching Tips--Soccer, T-ball, Basketball; Football Safety Tips; Injury Prevention Tips; Sportsmanship;Points to Ponder; Nutritional guide for optimal performance; Angry reactions can leave their marks; Focus on the process; Sports Drinks--do they help;While your child sleeps; Relate to your young athlete; Ideas to raise a well balanced child