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Birth
August 5, 1937 in Saint Paul, MN, USA. -
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Herb Brooks
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Begins tryouts for team
Herb Brooks begin PLANNING for the 1980 olympic hokcey team by holding tryouts. -
Assigns Assisstant Coach
Assigns Craig Patrick as assistant coach as a part of STAFFING -
Holding Meetings with Players
As a part of LAISON, he held meetings with each player that tryed out for the team. -
CONTROLLING who makes team and who doesnt
He CONTOLLED who made his team by testing them physically and psychologically -
Cuts team down to correct amount of players
Finally got team down to 20 players as a part of ORGANIZING -
Breaking Up FIghts
Broke up fights between players to keep control as a DISTURBANCE HANDLER -
Earning Respect
Was able to earn respect by players early on by breaking them down from his HUMAN RELATIONS -
Analyzation of Soviet Squad
Analyzed soviet squad using his CONCEPTUAL SKILLS and developed ways of beating them. -
Seeing how Soviet Union plays
MONITORED how Soviet union played from reports and experiance in games against them, and he made game plan to defeat them -
Designing Practices
Designed practices to get the players more enduranced and set for the tough competition ahead by using his TECHNICAL SKILLS. -
Setting Exhibition Games
Sets schedule for 5 months of exhibition games as a RESOURCE ALLOCATOR -
Final Cut
Herb Brooks made his final cut days before traveling to the Olympics as a part of being a DISSEMINATOR -
Speech
Gave famous speech in locker room to U.S national team. He is known as a SPOKESPERSON for this. -
LEADING 1980 Olympic Team to Gold Medal
LEADS Olympic National team to gold medal -
2002 Silver Medal
Being the LEADER that Herb Brooks is, he leads the U.S national team to a silver medal in 2002. -
Death
At the age of 66, Brooks died in a single car accident on the afternoon of August 11, 2003, near Forest Lake, Minnesota, on Interstate 35.
