Peter Smith: Building a team with love

Baseline Intelligence with Jonathan Stokke

Mar 07, 2022•37 min•Ep. 7

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Episode description

Peter Smith is our guest for the seventh episode of Baseline Intelligence. Peter coached Division I men's tennis for over 30 years, winning 5 NCAA championships, 2 National coach the year awards, and took four different schools into the top 25. He also spent time coaching top American professionals Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey.

We talk:

3:25 Why his teams won so many NCAA championships

6:00 How the love of his players improved performance

8:37 Loving the big moments

10:00 The difference between good and great

12:00 Common "walls" players put up

17:05 His coaching philosophy

19:00 Coaching a college match

24:48 Top thing he looked for in a recruit

28:27 Top thing a 3.5 player can do to improve

29:51 How easy it was to coaching against me

32:10 A legendary coaching story

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