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Instructor: Dennis Janzen

Dr. Dennis Janzen brings more than 40 years of experience in competitive athletics coaching and administration, with a career devoted to helping athletes and leaders discover what they are capable of achieving. He holds a PhD in Sport Psychology from the University of Southern California and specializes in coaching, drawing on extensive experience working with athletes ranging from Olympians to young children. Originally from Reedley, California, Dr. Janzen now lives in Lynden, Washington. His coaching philosophy is grounded in the belief that effective training shapes performance, character, and perseverance. He is particularly interested in understanding what motivates people to pursue challenging goals, persist through failure, and overcome the fear of falling short. For Dr. Janzen, the greatest reward of coaching is seeing someone accomplish something they once believed was impossible. Through teaching and mentoring, he strives to create meaningful learning experiences for those pursuing excellence in athletic coaching and administration.

Classes by this instructor

ATH-900: Successful Fundraising for Athletics

In contemporary athletics programs (junior high, high school, collegiate) the issues of funding budgets and fundraising are becoming much more acute as traditional sources of funding are becoming more difficult to procure. Successful athletics programs are becoming increasingly tied to the coach and/or athletics director's ability to generate funds from external sources.

ATH-901: Coaching: Enhancing Motivation

Any coach or athlete who achieves success in the arena of competitive sport does so because of a level of mastery in the mental aspects of athletic performance. All learning, improvement,and successful sport performance is intrinsically tied to the psychological dimension of motivation.

ATH-903: Coaching: Leadership and Team Cohesion

Any coach or athlete who achieves success in the arena of competitive sport understands that strong effective leadership and resilient team culture are essentials to successful achievement. This course offers the athletics coach powerful opportunities to learn and directly apply strong leadership and team-building principles with their coaching staff and team within the competitive sport context.

ATH-904: Coaching: General Principles and Fundamentals

Being a successful coach is an enormous challenge. School administrators, parents, athletes, and entire communities all have high expectations of today's coaches. Think about the various elements of successful coaching beyond simply the skill requirements of the respective sport. The coaching profession requires the coach to function effectively as an administrator, leader, and psychologist.

ATH-905: Coaching: Building Character & Sportsmanship

This course provides very effective, practical ways in which the coach can teach strong character and sportsmanship to their athletes. The activities of this course will help the coach discover the significant linkages between team performance and strong character. It is designed to encourage the coach to think about the effects of athletics competition on the moral reasoning processes of the athlete.

ATH-907: Coaching: Drugs in Sport

This course will encourage the high school coach to think about the issues and facts that surround the usages of performance-enhancing supplements typically encountered in our athletically competitive world. The National Standards for Sport Coaches (NSSC) as part of the SHAPE national standards calls for coaches to be knowledgeable in the area of performance enhancing substances.

ATH-908: Coaching: The Female Athlete

Examine gender differences and stereotypes of the female athlete in our competitive world. The National Standards for Sport Coaches (NSSC) as part of the NASPE national standards calls for coaches to be knowledgeable in the area of coaching methods relevant to understanding how to effectively work with various personalities and types of athletes, including the female athlete.

ATH-913: Plyometric Training for Sports

Explosive movements are at the heart of athletic performance. Explore how to safely and effectively develop the strength, speed and power that help athletes excel in the Plyometric Training for Sports course. You'll learn sports conditioning and how plyometric training enhances performance through dynamic exercises that use quick, powerful movements to increase muscle responsiveness.

ATH-930: Applied Sport Psychology for Coaches

This course is designed to present practical, real-life, applied experiences to the coach or teacher that will be immediately helpful in inspiring and motivating themselves and their athletes and students toward achievement levels that they may not have felt possible. The mental processes that bring about outstanding learning, achievement and excellence are the same whether it's in the academic, music, or athletics arena.

ATH-940: Coaching Volleyball

This online course covers the tactical and technical skills necessary for the successful teaching and coaching of competitive volleyball. You will learn to effectively design practice, in-season, off-season plans, and game plans in ways to optimize learning. The course is suitable for high school coaches, serious club coaches, college and university undergraduate students, and advanced coaches at the youth level.

ATH-941: Coaching: Work Effectively With Parents

Effectively working with parents is a very common issue for coaches. This course is designed to help the coach build strong positive relationships with their sport parents. The content of this course is presented from an applied perspective, designed to be immediately useful. The activities are specifically designed to acquaint and strengthen the coach to parent to athlete relationship triangle so that the result is a positive, supportive experience for all.