Play the Whole Game

Coaching Research to Results · Aug 5, 2026 · 13m

Care to share your thoughts? Send a message...Can Teaching Games for Understanding actually hold up with adult, competitive athletes over a full season, not just in a school gym? In this episode, host Beth Barz shares findings from an eight-month, first-person study of a volleyball coach who lived inside the game-based approach with his own national league team. If you coach adults or competitive athletes and want to know how game-based coaching, whole-part-whole session design, and coach questioning actually hold up under the pressure of real competition, this episode has answers. Remember…