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Beyond your ability: Coach Warner
Calvin Gibson
Issue date: 2/20/09 Section: Sports
Chad Warner is only in his second season as the head coach for men's basketball at Shorter College but has already made a huge impact on the athletic department at Shorter.
With a lot of experience in player development, recruiting, scouting, coaching and strength and conditioning, it should be only a matter of time before he will turn the men's basketball program around.
"We were pleased with the caliber and quality of the applications and out of a tremendous pool of candidates, Chad Warner rose to the top," said Bill Peterson, Shorter's athletic director. "He is a person of great Christian character with a tremendous basketball background who we believed would be able to help Shorter College build a bridge to the city of Rome and inspire community support of our program," Peterson added.
It is no wonder that Chad Warner was chosen as the coach. he took the men's basketball team from being no. 8 in the SSAC coaches preseason poll to no. 3 within his first year.
"As soon as coach got here, he stressed the importance of hard work. He took the talent we had and made us work even harder in order to be more successful than we've been in the past," said junior point guard Brodrick Walker.
His enthusiastic ways, youth and energy play a part in his coaching style as well as his ideology. Mediocrity is unheard of with Coach Warner. His drive and determination seem to keep the Hawks going in games, as well as in practice.
'Beyond your ability,' is the saying that Warner uses to push and motivate his players. This is what the players feed off of in order to get where they want to be on and off the court.
As a leader of young men and a man who lives for the game, he has players who believe in him as much as he believes in them.
"The biggest difference is that he actually knows the game and is able to teach it the right way and the team believes in him because of his credibility," said Walker on the difference between the Warner and former head coach, Ricky Williams.
The two years before Chad Warner's arrival, the Hawks won a total of 12 games. Since 2007, Warner has coached the Hawks to their best season since 2003-2004 with a 19-12 record and a fifth place ranking in the SSAC, the closest to first in four years.
Never letting his players grow complacent, Warner constantly lets them know that they have a long way to go before they get where they need to be.
Warner also encourages his players to work hard off the court as well as on the court.
"Coach Warner has made me a better man on the court as well as off the court," said sophomore guard Corey Edmondson.
It can be said through all the statisics and records Coach Chad Warner is fulfilling his job in leading the Hawks to success, who remain tied for fourth in the conferenc alongside Southern Polytechnic State University.
The Hakws play home on Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. against Southern Wesleyan in the Winthrop-King.
With a lot of experience in player development, recruiting, scouting, coaching and strength and conditioning, it should be only a matter of time before he will turn the men's basketball program around.
"We were pleased with the caliber and quality of the applications and out of a tremendous pool of candidates, Chad Warner rose to the top," said Bill Peterson, Shorter's athletic director. "He is a person of great Christian character with a tremendous basketball background who we believed would be able to help Shorter College build a bridge to the city of Rome and inspire community support of our program," Peterson added.
It is no wonder that Chad Warner was chosen as the coach. he took the men's basketball team from being no. 8 in the SSAC coaches preseason poll to no. 3 within his first year.
"As soon as coach got here, he stressed the importance of hard work. He took the talent we had and made us work even harder in order to be more successful than we've been in the past," said junior point guard Brodrick Walker.
His enthusiastic ways, youth and energy play a part in his coaching style as well as his ideology. Mediocrity is unheard of with Coach Warner. His drive and determination seem to keep the Hawks going in games, as well as in practice.
'Beyond your ability,' is the saying that Warner uses to push and motivate his players. This is what the players feed off of in order to get where they want to be on and off the court.
As a leader of young men and a man who lives for the game, he has players who believe in him as much as he believes in them.
"The biggest difference is that he actually knows the game and is able to teach it the right way and the team believes in him because of his credibility," said Walker on the difference between the Warner and former head coach, Ricky Williams.
The two years before Chad Warner's arrival, the Hawks won a total of 12 games. Since 2007, Warner has coached the Hawks to their best season since 2003-2004 with a 19-12 record and a fifth place ranking in the SSAC, the closest to first in four years.
Never letting his players grow complacent, Warner constantly lets them know that they have a long way to go before they get where they need to be.
Warner also encourages his players to work hard off the court as well as on the court.
"Coach Warner has made me a better man on the court as well as off the court," said sophomore guard Corey Edmondson.
It can be said through all the statisics and records Coach Chad Warner is fulfilling his job in leading the Hawks to success, who remain tied for fourth in the conferenc alongside Southern Polytechnic State University.
The Hakws play home on Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. against Southern Wesleyan in the Winthrop-King.
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