This week’s guest is one of the top high school football coaches in the nation. Hal Wasson has been the head football coach at Southlake Carroll in Southlake, TX, since 2007. The Dragons are widely recognized as a top high school football program and annually find themselves ranked in the top 25 nationally and competing for a Texas high school football state championship. In this podcast Wasson shares how he develops a championship culture, an elite mindset and a one-play-at-a-time mentality within his program. He also shares advice for fathers who are coaching their sons.

You can follow Coach Wasson and Southlake Carroll HS Football @SLCDragonFB.

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PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION

Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today I’m super fired up to have our guest Hal Wasson. Hal is the head football coach of the Carroll Dragon football program in Southlake, Texas, one of the most sought after clinicians and speakers on program building, culture building, and winning at the highest level of high school football.

Coach Wasson thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us here on the podcast.

Wasson: I’m really happy to be here, Brian. I’m feeding off your energy right now. I’m excited to just be around you today.

Cain: Awesome. Well I’m glad you’re here. The feeling is mutual. If you would could you give our listeners kind of your background in terms of where you played football and then how you got to be the head football coach here at Southlake Carroll.

Wasson: Well you know it’s a journey. It was a long process. I grew up in a small town in East Texas – Kerens, Texas. I was a multisport guy. I played all four sports in my high school. You played the sports, you were in the band, student council, beta club, all those things. I graduated from high school. Obviously I thought was better than what I was and I jumped into a junior college. I played a couple years at Navarro Junior College. I was fortunate to be on a couple of championship team...

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