Significant Coaching with Matt Rogers
Significant Coaching with Matt Rogers
š Leadership. Purpose. College Sports Reimagined.
This isnāt just another sports podcast.
Itās where coaching meets calling, recruiting meets reality, and leadership is measured by impactānot just wins.
Significant Coaching with Matt Rogers is where todayās most authentic and influential college coaches, athletic leaders, and changemakers come to talk realāabout growth, grit, and the game behind the game.
Hosted by former college coach and athletic director Matt Rogersāauthor of Significant Recruiting and founder of coachmattrogers.comāthis show goes beyond the Xās and Oās. We dig into the heart of leadership, the human side of recruiting, and the lessons that shape lives long after the final whistle.
Here, youāll meet coaches who describe their work as a calling.
Youāll hear stories that remind you: āGreat coaches donāt just lead teamsāthey build people.ā
Youāll find wisdom from those who coach with conviction and lead with love.
This podcast is for the difference-makers:
š„ Coaches who lead with heart
š£ Athletes who want more than a scholarship
š§ Administrators reshaping what sports can be
š„ And anyone passionate about building peopleānot just programs
Our mission?
To elevate the voices of those coaching with purpose, leading with vision, and recruiting with significance.
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š Visit coachmattrogers.com for books, blogs, and speaking inquiries
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Significant Coaching with Matt Rogers
Episode #7: Samantha Birkicht
Samantha Birkicht is the Head Women's Volleyball Coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and she is coming off of back-to-back 20 win seasons in what is arguably the toughest NCAA D3 conference in the country, the WIAC (Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference).
Sam, not only is one of the best volleyball coaches in the country, but her and her husband, Ryan, may have the best collegiate Instagram platform in all of college sports (@uwpvolleyball). I encourage you to follow them on Instagram, but check-out their post on Oct. 31, 2023 to get a glimpse of what makes it so special.
Sam also wrote a tremendous piece on social media for me in my book Significant Recruiting: The Playbook for Prospective College Athletes. Her contribution to Chapter 9 on social media is brilliant, and I'm not afraid to say that it may be the best thing written in that chapter.
We had a great talk on social media, recruiting, program building, leadership and the differences between being a female head college coach compared to a male. Good stuff! Enjoy!
Learn more about Coach Birkicht here: https://www.letsgopioneers.com/sports/wvball/coaches/Rogers_Samantha
Learn more and connect with Matt Rogers here: https://linktr.ee/coachmattrogers
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