Character work for high school coaches.
Coach 360 centers on the everyday leadership work behind high school sports. Through conversations with coaches, athletic directors, and character-focused guests, it turns locker-room culture, discipline, trust, sportsmanship, and student growth into concrete coaching problems.
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Coach 360 approaches high school athletics as a place where character is trained as deliberately as strength, speed, or scheme. Its conversations are aimed at the adults shaping that environment. The show often starts from familiar coaching language: toughness, discipline, buy-in, preparation, and tradition. Then it pushes those words into practical detail. In one episode, Daniel Fitzmorris describes a Dobie football identity built around organization, offseason work, the wing T, and the desire for opponents to feel the program’s physical standard. That is one lane of the show. Another lane is broader campus leadership, as with Jamie Boswell talking about a long career in education and athletics while stepping into Andrews ISD. The show also makes room for recurring coaching lessons with Coach Mackey, including leadership frameworks and encouragement for coaches. It is not only about winning games. Sportsmanship, fan behavior, official relationships, and community standards appear through The Texas Way campaign. Athlete welfare is part of the frame too. The episode on sexual harassment brings in Valencia Peterson and Jess Mahler for a more serious discussion about respect, learned behavior, abuse prevention, and how coaches can speak into young athletes’ lives. Coach 360 can sound like a field house conversation, but its scope is wider than drills and schedules. It is interested in the culture underneath performance. The pacing is straightforward. The values are explicit. The best fit is a coach, athletic director, or educator looking for usable language, lived examples, and a steady reminder that program building is also people building.
Made for: Coach 360 is for high school coaches, athletic directors, and educators who want practical conversations about program culture, leadership, and student-athlete development. It especially suits listeners who think team standards should include character, respect, and community responsibility.
What sets it apart: The show stays close to the real settings of school athletics: offseason rooms, locker rooms, sportsmanship campaigns, and difficult conversations with young athletes. Its edge is practical moral leadership, not abstract coaching theory.
Coach 360 is a podcast dedicated to helping high school coaches take their leadership to the next level.In each episode, we'll talk to high school coaches and athletic directors about topics like: developing culture, locker room management, character development, hiring staff, mental toughness, anger management, practice and preparation techniques, and more.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A coaching conversation about sexual harassment lands best when respect moves from practice into home life.
Sexual harassment is framed here as a matter of coaching culture, with Luke Turpin joined by Valencia Peterson, an assistant football coach at Pennwood High School in Pennsylvania and founder of Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention, and Jesse Mahler, a program specialist at…
Real ball talk for working coaches.
Track coaches talking real practice.
Leadership lessons from sport.
Coaching ideas beyond the standard playbook.
Strength coaching lessons from the weight room floor.
Luke Turpin hosts experts Jesse Mahler and Valencia Peterson to discuss sexual harassment prevention in high school sports.
Coach 360 host Colton interviews Daniel Fitzmaurice, the athletic coordinator at Pasadena Dobie High School, about returning to his 1999 alma mater and rebuilding its football culture.
Coach 360 host Colton interviews Sergio Gonzalez, Pasadena Rayburn’s athletic coordinator and head football coach, about blue-collar roots, accountability, and leadership.
Coach 360 host Colton interviews Lawrence Johnson, athletic coordinator and head football coach at Wichita Falls Legacy High School, about merging three football programs into a new campus.
Coach 360 host Colton interviews Cale Melton, athletic coordinator and head football coach at Kingwood High School, about developing character beyond football.
Michelle Dalton, girls athletic coordinator at Bondi Intermediate, describes 16 years of coaching middle school athletes after playing three years of basketball and two years of volleyball at East Texas Baptist University.
Paul Scharr, athletic director at Community ISD, tells Coach 360 host Colton how his district adopted the UIL-backed "Texas Way" initiative on treating officials, coaches and fans.
Coach Mackey tells host Colton that coaches should aim to 'finish out' rather than 'burn out,' reaching the destination before they 'run out of gas.' He lists four burnout signs: emotional exhaustion, detachment, a low sense of accomplishment, and physical symptoms such as headaches and getting sick more often.
Ben Nicholas, athletic director at Village Tech Schools in Duncanville, Texas, says he ranks "people first, student second," and athletes third, because roughly 99% of high school athletes end their careers after graduation.
Coach Mackey of Two Words tells host Colton that a program's core values should start with a character trait, using the F-150 analogy of the trait as the engine under the finished truck.
This episode features an interview with Coach Mackey discussing coaching strategies and character development for high school athletes.
Host Colton introduces the Coach 360 podcast, which equips high school coaches with resources for character development and leadership, and includes a sponsor ad for PMX Pro Maxima fitness equipment.
Host Colton introduces the Coach 360 podcast, which equips high school coaches with resources for character development and leadership, and includes a sponsor ad for fitness equipment.
Host Colton interviews new athletic director Jamie Boswell about his 30-year coaching career and transition to Andrews ISD.