Author: Craig Zeller

If you poll the schools in any Academic Games league, you will find a wide variety of practice schedules. Some teams meet before school. Others meet after school. Still others … Continue →

Athletic coaches talk about stressing the fundamentals: blocking and tackling in football, dribbling and passing in basketball, etc. The same idea applies to Academic Games as well. At every Equations … Continue →

Athletic coaches talk about stressing the fundamentals: blocking and tackling in football, dribbling and passing in basketball, etc. The same idea applies to Academic Games as well. For instance, in … Continue →

What can the Academic Games moderator do with students who are over-involved? First, you must decide how strict you will be concerning attendance at Academic Games practices. If you are … Continue →

Many students want to dabble in many activities without committing themselves to serious involvement in hardly any of them. The parents may support this approach, wanting their child to have … Continue →

Last month, under the heading of being too competitive, players were warned not to “collude with one opponent to defeat the other opponent.” What does “collude with one opponent” mean? Agree with one … Continue →

Last month’s Coaching Tip discussed the idea of “Don’t apologize for being competitive.” This month, we talk about the concept of being too competitive. A student is overly competitive and … Continue →

Some students hesitate to compete hard in Academic Games or anything else. They don’t seem to want to offend the opponent by trying to win. Perhaps this attitude stems from … Continue →

Applicable to On-Sets as well When trailing, play even more aggressively. Stop the leader from employing KISS. (See last month’s tip.) Move cubes to Required to create a longer Solutions. … Continue →