Episode 91: Lisa Thomaidis, Driving Success by Building Team Identity

Lisa Thomaidis, Driving Success by Building Team Identity Guest: Lisa Thomaidis, Canadian Women's National Team Head Coach   In this week’s coaching conversation, Canadian Women's National Team head coach Lisa Thomaidis joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss driving success by building team identity. In addition to being the national team head coach, Coach Thomaidis is also in her 21st year as head coach of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Coach Thomaidis Five-time Canada West Coach of the Year and two-time U SPORTS Coach of the Year  During her tenure at the U of S, the Huskies have won the 2016 CIS National Championship, six Canada West titles, (2019, 2017, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006), and have qualified for the U SPORTS Final 8 in 10 of the last 11 seasons. In 2013, Thomaidis was appointed the Head Coach of the Canadian Women's National Team. Since that time, Lisa has coached the Team to a 7th place finish at the Rio Olympics in 2016, a Pan Am Gold Medal (which was the first-ever Gold Medal in Basketball at the PanAms) and FIBA Americas Gold Medal in 2015, a 5th place finish at the 2018 FIBA World Championships in Turkey in 2014, a 7th place finish at the 2018 FIBA World Cup and a silver medal at the FIBA Americas Championships in Mexico in 2013. In the summer of 2012, Thomaidis was an Assistant Coach with the Women's National Team at the London Olympics. There, the team made a dramatic run to the Quarter-Finals, before falling to the USA, the eventual gold medallists. Her five Canada West Coach of the Year awards came in 2004, 2006, 2009,2011 and 2016. She was also inducted into the McMaster University Hall of Fame in October 2006. In 2008-09, she became the first women's basketball coach at the UofS to be named the CIS Coach of the Year and won the award again in 2010-11. She was also named a YWCA Woman of Distinction in 2009 and Recipient of the CAAWS Women of Influence Award on two occasions.   Breakdown 1:00 - Words that defining Team Identity 3:00 - Advantage of having an Identity 5:00 - What Practice Look Like if you have Team Identity 6:00 - Faster Pace of Change 9:00 - Recruit on the Identity 10:30 - How Team Identity Works with her Scouts 11:30 - Approaching Scout in the Moments Before the Game 16:00 - Feedbacks 18:00 - Team Meetings and Energizers for the Team 22:00 - Other Things to Engage These Athletes 24:00 - Strength From The Diversity of the Staff 27:00 - On-Court Pre Game Warm-Up  30:00 - Halftime 31:30 - Watching Team Pre Warm-Ups 36:00 - Ready Sheets 39:00 - Overly Tactical As a Coach 42:00 - 14-Second Shot Clock   Lisa Thomaidis’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Thomaidis Twitter: https://twitter.com/LisaThomaidis    Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.