Gary T. Barrette, Ed. D. – Educational/Professional Biography Summary
Dr. Barrette began his academic and coaching career at Johns Hopkins University where he coached basketball, soccer, and baseball. Later, at Adelphi University he coached football, tennis, and golf before assuming the duties as Coordinator of Teacher/Coach Education. After completing a distinguished career at Adelphi University, he served for a short time as Dean of Academic Affairs at the United States Sports Academy, has taught Sport Ethics at Northwood University, and is presently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion, College of Education, Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Barrette earned a doctoral degree in 1977 from Columbia University, a master’s degree in 1969 from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. from the College of Wooster, Ohio where he captained the baseball team and lettered in football. As a school boy, he was named All-City in baseball and football at Niagara Falls High School, N.Y., and played in the first annual Western New York Ad Club All-Star Football Game in Buffalo, N.Y.
Dr. Barrette is well known for his Coach Smart Performance Framework and Sport Fit instructional designs, which provide coaches with innovative and effective sport coaching strategies. These strategies help kids achieve desirable sport learning objectives, especially those related to personal and social responsibility, fair play, health related fitness, and sport skill, play, and strategy performance. Over his career, he has conducted hundreds of coaching and sport education programs and workshops in the USA and abroad, always featuring instructional principles and coaching practices which transform basic coaching activity into dynamic coaching effectiveness.
He is a co-editor of Myths, Models and Methods in Sport Pedagogy, (Barrette et al) and What’s Going on in Gym, (Anderson & Barrette, 1978) and has authored numerous articles on teacher/coach education, youth sport, and sport education instruction designs. He was co-developer of the Adelphi University Coaching Institute in the 1970’s, a pioneering coach education program featured in the August 22, 1988 Sports Illustrated article, “Stress Free Little League,” which focused on improving coaching practices for volunteer coaches and recreational sport staff, toward the goal of providing safe, developmentally and instructionally appropriate coaching practices for youth sport programs.
Recently, in collaboration with Robert Kubin, President of Elite Coaching Consultants, LLC., Dr. Barrette has completed a Smart Sport Guide for Coaches and Kids for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County. Dr. Barrette serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Florence De George Boys & Girls Club in West Palm Beach, and is Vice President of Elite Coaching Consultants,LLC.
Robert E. Kubin
Mr. Robert E. Kubin has more than 25 years experience training all levels of athletes and coaches, designing and implementing training programs, creating a positive athletic culture and optimizing results through a progressional approach to excellence and higher standards.
Bob started his professional coaching career while studying manufacturing engineering at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. While attending Bradley, Bob was also a member of the Bradley University Cheerleading Squad as a toss-and-catch man and tumbler.
After leaving Bradley, Bob continued his professional coaching career as a high-level Optional Team gymnastics coach in the prestigious Region 5 Gymnastics Region. He has worked with several of the most respected coaches in the country, including Todd Gardner and Don McPhearson.
During his 25 year career, Bob created and refined coaching programs, curriculum development and gym management techniques in such high level cubs as American Academy of Gymnastics, United States Gymnastics Center, Gymnastics Spot, Ultimate Gymnastics and Elgin Gymnastics Training Center. In 1999, Bob founded Progressive Movements Gymnastics Academy in McHenry, Illinois and developed and implemented programs in gymnastics, power tumbling and cheer. He expanded into a 15,000 square foot facility three years later, which he designed, engineered and built, in Johnsburg, Illinois. This gym trained 700 students per week and employed a full time staff of 17. From 2005 – 2008, Bob was a National Team Coach, and was an Illinois Gymnastics Institute Head Clinician for five years. Over Bob’s career, he was consistently involved in Region 5 Gymnastics as a head clinician, implementing coaching techniques and philosophies and training Level 8, 9, 10 and elite gymnasts and their coaches. He is widely regarded as one of the top gymnastics coaches in the country.
In 2009, Bob founded Elite Coaching Consultants to translate his extensive success in gymnastics to other sports. He now focuses on educating coaches, parents and athletes across all sports on the advantages of positive, progressional training. In collaboration with Dr. Gary Barrette, Bob recently developed a Smart Sport Guide for Coaches and Kids for the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County, and created a guide for practice optimization and positive cultural change for the SEFL Lauderhill Panthers. Bob serves on the board of the Florence De George Boys & Girls Club and is a member of the Advisory Board of Yorktown University. He has been a United States of America Gymnastics professional member for over 20 years, is safety certified, and continues to coach high level gymnasts and provides clinics and consultation for competitive gymnastics clubs in South Florida.
