If you have some time, I was lucky enough to be on WFAN for the past two weeks and they have given me a link to share those shows as podcasts/mp3's.
http://podcastrss.play.it/rick-wolff-the-sports-edge_mp3_128.xml
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
College Basball Coaches Camp
For those of you interested, here is a short clip from our recent College Baseball Coaches Camp. Here coaches address players in regard to their school and athletic program.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Live Life Like My Dog
Having just ended a recent college season, I was taking some time off and playing with my dog, a two year old Black Lab, named Moxie. We were up at an area near my house called Lake Mohegan. Basically it is a series of trails around a river and like. Big spot for dogs in the summer. Moxie loves it as she can be off the leash, chase squirrels, scents, yet at the same time know her master is there with her. She always runs off and comes back. I get some exercise and she runs a marathon.
It struck me how she, like many other dogs, is hard wired to chase sticks and balls and bring them back to me. This particular day I found a really good stick and I was throwing it in the water, around the trail, and no matter what she had to do, she brought this stick back to me. She was built to do this. It was like Peyton Manning under center, like a Maserati on the highway, she was singularly focused and nothing, NOTHING, would get in her way. Current in the river? No big deal. Another dog going for her stick...are you kidding me..."that stick has my name on it, get your own", she says.
It struck me that this is a great way to go through life. To know exactly what you want and to go full bore, 100% dedicated to getting it. It's the way I want my college kids to be, my own kids to be, and myself to be. It doesn't matter what stick you chase, as long as you chase it like Moxie.
It struck me how she, like many other dogs, is hard wired to chase sticks and balls and bring them back to me. This particular day I found a really good stick and I was throwing it in the water, around the trail, and no matter what she had to do, she brought this stick back to me. She was built to do this. It was like Peyton Manning under center, like a Maserati on the highway, she was singularly focused and nothing, NOTHING, would get in her way. Current in the river? No big deal. Another dog going for her stick...are you kidding me..."that stick has my name on it, get your own", she says.
It struck me that this is a great way to go through life. To know exactly what you want and to go full bore, 100% dedicated to getting it. It's the way I want my college kids to be, my own kids to be, and myself to be. It doesn't matter what stick you chase, as long as you chase it like Moxie.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
SHU Baseball at Clemson NCAA Regional
Thanks to those of you who took the time to follow us during our NCAA Regional. A great experience for all of us. Being outmatched we needed to play perfect baseball and get a few breaks, neither of which happened. However, the picture below give you somewhat of an idea of the kind of experience it was.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Recruiting Author and Speaker Wins Championship
Sacred Heart Univeristy Baseball Wins 2011 NEC Championship
2011 NEC Champion Pioneers
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Heart (34-21) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 1 |
| Monmouth (36-19) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| @ Norwich, Conn. | Dodd Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Pitching |
|---|
| Win: Kody Kerski (2-4) - Sacred Heart |
| Loss: MCDONNELL, Andy (5-1) - Monmouth |
| Sacred Heart Batting |
|---|
| 2B: Steve Tedesco |
| 3B: John Murphy |
| HR: Dave Boisture |
| Monmouth Batting |
|---|
| 2B: PERRET, Chris |
| 3B: none |
| HR: none |
The Pioneers opened up a 5-0 lead in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Rob Griffith (Lake Ronkonkoma, NY) and a two-out RBI triple to right-centerfield by John Murphy (Seymour, CT). Murphy was named the tournament MVP, going 5-13 with a homerun, four runs and five RBI in the three-game NEC Tournament sweep.
SHU tacked four more on in the sixth, highlighted by an RBI single by Boisture, who scored two runs with three RBI, and a two-out two-run double by Steve Tedesco (Mission Viejo, CA).
Kerski pitched his first career complete game and earned his second victory of the season, scattering six hits with a walk, three strikeouts, and one earned run.
Troy Scribner (Washington Depot, CT), Nick Leiningen (Millwood, NY), and Horn were all named to the all-tournament team with Murphy. Scribner and Leiningen both pitched complete game victories in SHU's first two wins of the tournament, and Horn went 5-11 with five RBI and two RBI.
Sacred Heart advances to the NCAA Tournament in two weeks with a record of 34-21 in a program-record setting for wins. They won their 11th consecutive conference game, finishing the NEC season with a record of 24-9.
The NCAA Baseball Tournament Selection Show will be on Monday, May 30 at 12:30 p.m., when the Pioneers find out where and who they will play in the NCAA Division I Regionals beginning June 2.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
168
What's 168? 168 hours? Answer: The number of hours in a week. Take a few minutes and see if you can determine how you spend your time each week. Sleep. In school. Practice. Homework. Strength Training. Eating. Socializing. Online. TV. Etc. etc. Then you go convert it to percentages. You might find that spending 8% of your week texting is not going to get you where you want to go.
Feel free to email me your results. Mazzoniw@SacredHeart.edu.
Feel free to email me your results. Mazzoniw@SacredHeart.edu.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Some Inspirational Quotes
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.
The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
“What one approves, another scorns, and thus his nature each discloses;
You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.”
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon,
but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him
to put the other somewhat higher.”
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;
it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.”
“We cannot do everything at once,
but we can do something at once.”
“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big,
not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their
ability to outgrow small ones.”
“If the power to do hard work is not a skill,
it's the best possible substitute for it.”
“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion
than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.”
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work.”
“Two shoe salesmen…find themselves in a rustic backward part
of Africa. The first salesman wires back to his head office:
“There is no prospect of sales. Natives do not wear shoes!'
The other sales man wires: 'No one wears shoes here.
We can dominate the market. Send all possible stock.'”
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones
out of stumbling blocks.”
“If you want a track team to win the high jump,
you find one person who can jump seven feet,
not seven people who can jump one foot.”
The best way to appreciate leisure is to work for it.”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
If you can't change facts, try bending your attitude.”
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got
where he is had to begin where he was.”
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't,
you are usually right."
“Those who say it can't be done are usually
interrupted by others doing it.”
“Every man's work is a portrait of himself.”
The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back
to the dids and the did-nots.”
“There are two kinds of men who never amount to much - those who
cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.”\
“Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.”
“Wisdom consists in knowing what to do with what you know.”
“I love the winning, I can take the losing,
but most of all I love to play.”
“Do what you love to do and give it your very best.
Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.
If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it
your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man
before you know it.”
“A widely prevalent notion today seems to demand instant
achievement of goals, without any of the wearying, frustrating preparation
that is indispensable to any task. As the exemplar way of life,
the professional - that man or woman who injects every
new task or duty, no matter how small, with discipline of mind and
spirit - is a vanishing American, particularly among those
who too often believe that dreams come true because they
ought to and not because they are caused to materialize.
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“You stop worrying about what other people think about you
when you realize how little they do.”
“To be nobody but myself, in a world that is doing its best, night and
day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
“Those who strive for great goals must risk rejection from their peers”
We do not stop playing because we are old.
We grow old because we stop playing.”
“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come
from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.”
“If we have no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity
would not be so welcome.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're
going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”
“Even when you’ve played the game of your life, it’s the feeling
of teamwork that you’ll remember. You’ll forget the plays, the shots,
and the scores. But you’ll never forget your teammates.”
“Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I
have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years by
trying to get other people interested in you.”
What counts is not the number of hours you put in,
but how much you put in the hours.”
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.”
“If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.”
“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth,
I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday,
until the words become as much a habit as my breathing,
and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the
blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition
my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again
and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk.
I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now
is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor
of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when
the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed
to another and lost to me forever. This is the time.
This is the place. I am the person.”
TOMORROW POEM.
This is a great poem by Edgar Guest
He was going to be all that a mortal should beTomorrow.
No one should be kinder or braver than he
Tomorrow.
A friend who was troubled and weary he knew,
Who'd be glad of a lift and who needed it, too;
On him he would call and see what he could do
Tomorrow.
Each morning he stacked up the letters he'd write
Tomorrow.
And thought of the folks he would fill with delight
Tomorrow.
It was too bad, indeed, he was busy today,
And hadn't a minute to stop on his way;
More time he would have to give others, he'd say
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
And thought of the folks he would fill with delight
Tomorrow.
It was too bad, indeed, he was busy today,
And hadn't a minute to stop on his way;
More time he would have to give others, he'd say
Tomorrow.
The greatest of workers this man would have been
Tomorrow.
The world would have known him, had he ever seen
Tomorrow.
But the fact is he died and he faded from view,
And all that he left here when living was through
Was a mountain of things he intended to do
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
The world would have known him, had he ever seen
Tomorrow.
But the fact is he died and he faded from view,
And all that he left here when living was through
Was a mountain of things he intended to do
Tomorrow.
And lastly, Lincoln’s Road to the Whitehouse
- Failed in business in 1831.
- Defeated for Legislature in 1832.
- Second failure in business in 1833.
- Suffered nervous breakdown in 1836.
- Defeated for Speaker in 1838.
- Defeated for Elector in 1840.
- Defeated for Congress in 1843.
- Defeated for Congress in 1848.
- Defeated for Senate in 1855.
- Defeated for Vice President in 1856.
- Defeated for Senate in 1858.
- Elected President in 1860.
- Remembered forever.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
THE ABC’S OF COLLEGE RECRUITING
STEP A
Start figuring out a list of colleges based on your academic level/interests, your athletic ability, and your personal preferences about college. Lots of people want a time line when you should start doing this. The answer, whenever you have time and interest. Soon enough you will run out of the free time. I know many motivated 9th graders researching (without stressing out) college.
· Searching schools by academics. This is easy to do if you can access College Board or Noviance through your guidance department.
· Determining Your Athletic Talent: Talk to your coaches, go to camps, go watch college games and soon enough you will know if you are DI, DII, or DIII.
· Personal interests. There are no wrong or right colleges. The best way to figure out what you like and don’t like about schools is to visit as many as you can. The more you go see, the more you will know what you like and what you don’t.
Take all of the above info and plus into the College Coaches CD-Rom Search Tool. You can buy this unique search and recruiting tracking tool at by clicking this link.
STEP B
With the list of 10-30 schools you have doing your homework in the previous step, you are now ready to move to the evaluation stage. Notice I did not say recruiting stage, but evaluation. The fact is most kids never get as far as a coach looking at them and saying no. They just sit around and hope and wait to get found, which doesn’t happen unless you are elite. So how do you get college coaches to know about you and evaluate you….
· Send out your schedule for hs and summer teams and invite them to see you.
· Sign up for camps where you know they will be going. How do you know where they will be going? How about calling or emailing them to ask?!
· Make a video.
· Get someone a college coach trusts (coach, alum, scout, etc) and have them make a call or email on your behalf.
That’s it. Nothing else to do. My example always is, if I tell you I play guitar and you need to hire a guitar player for a party you are throwing. If you don’t know me, all the stuff I tell you (or my mom or dad) won’t convince you. You either need to see me, watch me, or hear me play live or on video or someone you trust needs to refer me. Same in recruiting.
STEP C
If you have made it this far, it means coaches are actively recruiting you! Congratuations, you are in the small percentage of athletes who have a chance of playing in college. There are however several things you need to do now to prepare yourself.
· Learn and follow the rules of the NCAA Clearninghouse. Click here for the NCAA Clearinghouse Website.
· Ask questions of each coach, school, program so as to gain the information you need to make a final choice (academic support, cost, playing time, coaching staff, methods of travel, facilities, etc. etc.).
· Admissions. What do you need to do to get into these schools and can the coach be of assistance in this area.
· Scholarships/Financial Aid: Are you a scholarship player? What other forms of financial aid can you get.
· Making your final school selection. Partly based on the academics, team, coach, cost of the school, but usually comes from your gut after an extended visit to campus.
Coach Wayne Mazzoni has been an NCAA College Coach since 1992. He currently coaches at Sacred Heart University. He has written several books on recruiting and is a frequent speaker at high schools in the tri-state area. He has appeared on ABC, Fox, WFAN, News 12, and many other media outlets. For more information visit www.WayneMazzoni.com.
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