What Students are Saying about Dr. Janzen’s Courses

This was an extremely relevant course for me to take as a potential administrator and current head varsity coach. The class allowed me to use the information and curriculum immediately in my program. I highly recommend this course to all head coaches.  – Nevada

Coach Janzen created another excellent course that provided me with opportunities to think about how I motivate my athletes, as well as my own coaching philosophy. I would recommend this to any high school coach. – New Jersey

I really loved this course. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in coaching! – Pennsylvania

Another great course if you are a high school / youth athletic coach. Great for inspiration to develop/maintain team chemistry. – New Jersey

Outstanding course and excellent book for the course (by Bruce Brown) – Wisconsin

I have been a coach for over ten years and I thought there were several valuable readings and assignments in this course. I am excited to use this information with my coaches and my program. – New Jersey

This course had a lot of great material on building team. I really enjoyed it. – Ohio

The course made me reflect on my coaching career in a positive way in order to improve my leadership ability. – Maryland

Great course!  Will be doing more. – New Jersey

ATH 904 was a valuable course that exposed me to a wealth of extremely useful information and concepts. – Massachusetts

This course was awesome. I have coached for 37 years and the course really caused me to discern. I am very thankful for the opportunity. Dr. Janzen is a great mentor. Always there for me to answer questions and very personable. – Virginia

Very thought provoking course. – California

Thank you for this educational opportunity to grow and further develop my personal approach towards teaching character through sports. – Arizona

ATH 905 was one of the best university classes I have ever taken. Coaching for character…wow! As I proceeded through the course, I realized my PE/health teaching career was in need of a large and substantial tweak! I had forgotten one of the most important parts of life: developing character! This course gave me practical ways to immediately implement and incorporate character development into my daily class times. Best of all, my students are loving it and being daily challenged and transformed from the inside out. Doesn’t get much better than that! Thank you! – California

Very thought provoking exercises. As with other courses I have taken through Fresno and Dr. Janzen, I thought the work load was fair and I learned much in the process. – California

I enjoyed the real life application of the course content. I thought I was actually reading about situations in my coaching career. – Ohio

The course was great. I found it enlightening and incredibly useful. I would love to use the information in my classroom as well as with my soccer team. Thanks! – Pennsylvania

The readings for this course and previous courses offered by Prof. Janzen helped me build stronger relationships with seniors that were on the fence and ultimately led us to the championship game! Thank you. – New York

Excellent book and course. Thanks for being so prompt in grading and responding to emails. Should be required as an undergrad class for any athletic pursuit. – Ohio

Awesome course for coaches. – New Jersey

This course was excellent and relative to my profession. The assignments were applicable and the instructor gave valuable feedback. I really enjoyed it! – California