Season 3 Episode #7 Legendary Coach Frank Allocco's Spirit Will Always Be Alive!
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Season 3 Episode #7 Coach Frank Allocco is coming from the SF Bay Area
You can find Coach Allocco via his website frankallocco.com.
About our guest - Coach Allocco was born and raised in New Providence, New Jersey. While in high school, Coach Allocco lettered in three sports and always had the dream of playing football at Notre Dame. Coach achieved his dream and played on the 1973 National Champion team. Coach was a great athlete and also lettered in basketball and played for the legendary Irish Coach – Digger Phelps. Coach graduated with his degree in Sociology and in 1976 wised up and moved to beautiful and sunny California.
In 1981 Coach founded Excel in Basketball. Coach has done just that (EXCEL) and has helped thousands of young players do the same on and off the court. Coach won a State Championship at Northgate High School in 1995, and won two more as Head Coach at De La Salle High School (only coach in California state history to win a state championship at 2 different schools.
In 2012 Coach was inducted into the Sports Faith Hall of Fame. Coach Allocco is a National and International Motivational Speaker and Clinician and currently works at the University of San Francisco as the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director.
Coach thanks for dedicating your life to the game of basketball and more importantly, to the thousands of student-athletes you have helped along the way. Coach, Welcome to the show!
TOTD – “The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture – however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is a by-product and may be useful, valuable, interesting as a sign of what has passed. The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a high state of functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence.” Robert Henri
In this episode:
Quick story of how we met and the generosity of Coach Allocco.
What was life like growing up
What are your Life’s Essential Ingredients
Legendary FOOTSTOMP….
Playing for Legendary and Ara Parseghian
1973 National Championship – what made the team so special
Playing with RUDY
Won 600 games faster than any other coach + three state titles… left De La Salle in 2015 to coach at USF- why?
Coach John Duggan and his 5 decades of giving back
The importance of gratitude
Getting Reps and learning how to practice the right way
Leadership – define it and how do you develop it…
Excel – vision of why you started in and the success of it and the importance of serving others… 40 years later – selfless focus – change the world one player at a time…
MORE THAN JUST A GAME
Diocese of Oakland - President of East Diablo CYO League
PG for Digger Phelps and was a NIT finalist in 1973
Legacy
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