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This EDTalk features Coach, author and educator Larry McKenzie. Larry is the first coach to win four straight state titles in the 100-year history of Minnesota State Boys Basketball, and the first coach in Minnesota high school basketball history to lead two separate schools to multiple titles. But beyond the trophies and medals, Coach McKenzie has accomplished something even more impressive: coaching and supporting his athletes to increase their academic performance alongside their athletic skills. Using basketball as a tool, he has led his players to 100% high school graduation and a 3.4 team GPA. Coach McKenzie shares stories about his journey at Minneapolis high schools and how he helps his student athletes become champions on the basketball court, in the classroom, in their families and in their communities. EDTalks is co-presented by Achieve Twin Cities and Graves Ventures, a project of the Graves Foundation. For more information on EDTalks or to watch EDTalks videos or listen to audio podcasts, visit achievetwincities.org.

Welcome to A DOPE Public Health Podcast! In this episode, your host, Demonte, engages in a captivating conversation with Larry McKenzie, a seasoned professional with almost two decades of experience in the dynamic world of real estate. Join us as we delve into Larry's inspiring journey, gaining valuable insights into the highs, lows, and pivotal moments that have shaped his remarkable career. Larry McKenzie, a distinguished member of Premier Real Estate Group LLC, shares his wealth of knowledge and expertise in the real estate industry. Discover the strategies and mindset that have kept him at the forefront of the game for nearly twenty years. Whether you're a seasoned professional in the field or someone exploring the world of real estate, this episode promises to provide valuable takeaways and a deeper understanding of what it takes to thrive in this ever-evolving industry. Tune in as we unravel the secrets to Larry's success, exploring the challenges he faced and the lessons he learned along the way. From navigating market trends to building lasting relationships, this episode offers a comprehensive look into the life of a real estate veteran. Don't miss out on the opportunity to gain practical insights and inspiration from Larry McKenzie's journey. Join us in this enlightening conversation on A DOPE Public Health Podcast, where we not only discuss public health matters but also explore the diverse and fascinating stories of individuals making a difference in their respective fields.

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more. MPR News host Angela Davis talked earlier this year with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles. “The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. McKenzie retired in 2022, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches.Listen to the rebroadcast to hear MPR News host Angela Davis talk with McKenzie about what makes a great coach, teaching young people to lose with grace, why the team is more important than the individual and how he supported his students after George Floyd's murder and through the pandemic.Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired in 2022 from coaching at Minneapolis North High School.Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that?Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share.Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches.One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field.What makes a great high school coach?Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives.In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives.In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults.You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that?Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time.I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them.What concerns you about high school sports these days?Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful.The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000 — he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does.Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room.How do you teach student-athletes how to lose?Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again.One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving.Your stories about coachesListeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them.Coach leads a new track team to victoryI had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.”He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women.— Anita from St. PaulHow a good coach impacts generationsI've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples.I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me.On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching.— Brent from Eden PrairieMemories from North High SchoolI just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do.— Amal from MinneapolisA well-remembered coachI'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis.— Louis from MinneapolisSubscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. 

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more. MPR News host Angela Davis talked earlier this year with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles. “The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. McKenzie retired in 2022, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches.Listen to the rebroadcast to hear MPR News host Angela Davis talk with McKenzie about what makes a great coach, teaching young people to lose with grace, why the team is more important than the individual and how he supported his students after George Floyd's murder and through the pandemic.Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired in 2022 from coaching at Minneapolis North High School.Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that?Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share.Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches.One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field.What makes a great high school coach?Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives.In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives.In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults.You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that?Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time.I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them.What concerns you about high school sports these days?Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful.The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000 — he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does.Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room.How do you teach student-athletes how to lose?Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again.One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving.Your stories about coachesListeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them.Coach leads a new track team to victoryI had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.”He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women.— Anita from St. PaulHow a good coach impacts generationsI've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples.I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me.On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching.— Brent from Eden PrairieMemories from North High SchoolI just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do.— Amal from MinneapolisA well-remembered coachI'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis.— Louis from MinneapolisSubscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. 

Jeff and Lason are joined by Larry McKenzie to discuss his legacy as a coach Coach, author, and educator Larry McKenzie is the First coach to win four straight state titles in the 100-year history of the Minnesota State Boys Basketball. In 2017, Coach McKenzie became the first Coach in Minnesota High School Basketball History to lead two separate schools to multiple titles, both Minneapolis Patrick Henry and Minneapolis North. Larry is a long-time community and youth advocate with 20 plus years of experience working with urban youth. His service to young people has earned him numerous awards and recognition including KARE 11's Eleven Who Care, KTCA's Everyday Hero, the Minneapolis Park Board's Volunteer of the Year, and Positive Image Father of the Year. Coach McKenzie Website: https://coachmckenzie.com/ Follow Coach McKenzie on Twitter: @LarryMc52167936

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more.  MPR News host Angela Davis talked with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles.  “I don't think I was a greatest X and O guy or any of that kind of stuff. The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. He retired in July, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches. Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired from coaching at Minneapolis North High School in July. Samantha Matsumoto | MPR News MPR News host Angela Davis talks with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win six basketball state titles.  Here are five key moments from the conversation. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that? Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share. Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches. One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field. What makes a great high school coach? Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives. In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives. In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did, and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults. You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that? Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players, and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time. I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them. What concerns you about high school sports these days? Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful. The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000, he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does. Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room. How do you teach student-athletes how to lose? Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again. One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving. Your stories about coaches Listeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them. Coach leads a new track team to victory I had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.” He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women. — Anita from St. Paul How a good coach impacts generations [[Coach Larry, thank you so much for all you do. I've never met you but I can guarantee you that you've influenced many kids for the rest of their lives.]] I've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples. I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me. On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching. [[So again, thank you, coach, Larry.]] — Brent from Eden Prairie Memories from North High School I just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do. — Amal from Minneapolis A well-remembered coach I'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis. — Louis from Minneapolis TikTok: Major keys from a basquetball coach legend

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more. MPR News host Angela Davis talked with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles. “I don't think I was a greatest X and O guy or any of that kind of stuff. The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. He retired in July, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches. Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired from coaching at Minneapolis North High School in July.Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that?Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share. Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches. One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field.What makes a great high school coach?Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives. In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives.In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did, and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults.You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that?Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players, and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time. I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them.What concerns you about high school sports these days? Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful. The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000, he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does. Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room.How do you teach student-athletes how to lose?Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again. One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving. Your stories about coachesListeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them.Coach leads a new track team to victoryI had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.” He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women.— Anita from St. PaulHow a good coach impacts generationsI've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples. I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me. On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching.— Brent from Eden PrairieMemories from North High SchoolI just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do.— Amal from MinneapolisA well-remembered coach I'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis.— Louis from Minneapolis TikTok: Major keys from a basquetball coach legend

Coach Larry McKenzie is simply one of Minnesota's greatest coaches in any sport. The legendary basketball coach has a record of 481-166 – a win percentage of just over 74-prcent in his over 40 years of coaching. Coach talks about his road from Miami to River Falls Wisconsin to Minnesota. I hope you enjoy this very special interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 24 years of coaching boys high school basketball in Minneapolis, Larry McKenzie has decided it's time to put away the whistle and clipboard. Manny Hill talks with Coach McKenzie about why now was the time to step away and focus on other aspects of life, and also the lasting impact he's had on the Northside community of Minneapolis.

A legendary journey has come to an end. Hall of Fame basketball coach Larry McKenzie is retiring. He reflects on his career with KMOJ's Freddie Bell and says instead of coaching players he may begin helping coaches.

Mike Max talks with legendary Boys Basketball Head Coach Larry McKenzie about his career, why this was the right time, doing right by the kids, teaching through tragedies and more. 

Minnesotans are scaling back absentee voting so far, after 2020 U.S. election controversies, and Minneapolis high school basketball coaching legend Larry McKenzie is turning in his whistle. This is an evening update from MPR News, hosted by Tim Nelson. Music by Gary Meister.

Mike Max talks with Minneapolis coaching icon Larry McKenzie on losing a friend to suicide, mental health, holding the community together, reflecting on George Floyd and more.

Mike Max talks with former local basketball star PJ Hill about the last two years, marching from US Bank Stadium, and north Minneapolis icon Larry McKenzie about losing a close friend to suicide and more.

MSHSL guru John Millea takes us around Minnesota for the best prep sports and activity stories, including Joe Cool, Odell's Mom & Larry McKenzie.Thanks to Twin Cities Orthopedics (https://tcomn.com) & Pizza Barn in Princeton, MN (https://www.PizzaBarnPrinceton.com).

MSHSL guru John Millea takes us around Minnesota for the best prep sports and activity stories, including Joe Cool, Odell's Mom & Larry McKenzie.Thanks to Twin Cities Orthopedics (https://tcomn.com) & Pizza Barn in Princeton, MN (https://www.PizzaBarnPrinceton.com).

Minneapolis North boys' basketball coach Larry McKenzie has the pulse on this week's state tournament. HIs Polars are embracing the goal of Class 2A state championship or bust.

North high school won a game by over 100 points in the first round of the playoffs a week ago. Larry McKenzie talks about the game and how the north side is doing in this interivew.

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Legendary Minnesota coach Larry McKenzie comes on the podcast this week. A 6-time state champion, Coach McKenzie talks about building up programs in two different schools, finding his calling as a high school coach, developing the Minnesota Black Basketball Coaches Association, pressure defense, "The Creed" and creating an individual plan for each player. Terrific conversation with a great coach!

In this episode, Lacy revisits important conversations with diverse community leaders featuring investment manager and CEO of Hercules investments James McDonald, architect and founder of Mobilize Design & Architecture Jamil Ford, Reverend McAfee, Executive director for the Center for Sales Leadership and Education at the University of Minnesota Todd Williams, community leader and founder of A Mother's Love nonprofit Lisa Clemmons, and coach author and educator Larry McKenzie. 

Minneapolis North basketball coach Larry Mckenzie joins the show to talk about his team playing George Floyd's high school. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Max talks with Mpls. North Boys Basketball Head Coach Larry McKenzie about dealing COVID-19, academics, kids doing things for themselves, his team this season and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coach, author, and educator Larry McKenzie is the first coach to win four straight state titles in the 100-year history of the Minnesota State Boys Basketball.  In 2017, Coach McKenzie became the first Coach in Minnesota High School Basketball History to lead two separate schools to multiple titles, both Minneapolis Patrick Henry and Minneapolis North. Larry is a long-time community and youth advocate with 20 plus years of experience working with urban youth. His service to young people has earned him numerous awards and recognition including KARE 11's Eleven Who Care, KTCA's Everyday Hero, the Minneapolis Park Board's Volunteer of the Year, and Positive Image Father of the Year.

Minneapolis North head basketball coach Larry Mckenzie chats with Mike about the upcoming season, and also the community that he calls home.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“You can't be what you can't see,” said Larry McKenzie, award-winning coach, speaker, and author, during the Nov. 18 Friends of the Libraries event Amplifying Black Narratives: The Creation of Black Narratives. Among the important resources for creating Black narratives are people who serve as “mirrors” that reflect possibilities yet may be scarce in the community. McKenzie was joined by Sheletta Brundidge, Sagirah Shahid, and Dara Beevas.

“You can't be what you can't see,” said Larry McKenzie, award-winning coach, speaker, and author, during the Nov. 18 Friends of the Libraries event Amplifying Black Narratives: The Creation of Black Narratives. Among the important resources for creating Black narratives are people who serve as “mirrors” that reflect possibilities yet may be scarce in the community. McKenzie was joined by Sheletta Brundidge, Sagirah Shahid, and Dara Beevas. The post Deserving recognition appeared first on continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries.

Henry Lake talks with Minnesota coaching icon Larry McKenzie about his storied career, being inducted into the Minnesota High School Hall of Fame, his proudest moment and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Max talks with Minneapolis North Boys Basketball Head Coach  Larry McKenzie about what Memorial Day means to him, the Tulsa Massacre, what the vibe is in north Minneapolis, the frustration he feels and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Max talks with Minneapolis North BBB HC Larry McKenzie about his reaction to the verdict, what he was expecting, what he tells his kids, there's more work to be done, why we want judge all police officers and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Henry Lake talks with Minneapolis North Boys Basketball Head Coach Larry McKenzie about the Gophers Men's Basketball Head Coaching position, the in state challenge, the problem he had with Richard Pitino, his team and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike talks high school sports with coaches Larry Mckenzie and Omar McMillan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's guests include Drew Trafton, WDAY Assistant News Director, Hayden Goethe, former Forum deputy sports editor, Larry McKenzie, Minneapolis North basketball coach, and Mike Zimmer, Kenmare girls basketball coach. Watch Hot Mic with Dom Izzo weekday mornings from 9 to 11 on WDAY XTRA and streaming live at Inforum.com.

Learning to build successful apps faster and easier, whilst meeting user expectations may seem like a challenge. However, we look at how Google’s UI toolkit Flutter can help simplify things alongside creating beautiful apps. We’re joined by Larry Mckenzie and Corey Sprague from eBay Motors, who discuss building new high-quality Android and iOS experiences for buying and selling vehicles on eBay, using Flutter to build attractive, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

How did Minneapolis North basketball coach Larry McKenzie end up in Joe Biden's 'America the Beautiful' victory video? Coach McKenzie joined Cory to talk about how it happened and what the results of the election mean to him and the young people he works with as a coach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Henry Lake talks with Mpls North Boys Basketball Head Coach Larry McKenzie about the formulation of the Minnesota Black Basketball Coaches Association, the importance of it, having conversations with players and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brett is joined by six-time state champion Larry McKenzie. Larry talks about building the basketball programs at Patrick Henry and North high schools in Minneapolis and what work went into achieving success at those schools. Larry talks about the expectations and standards of his program and how he instills those standards as part of their culture. He then talks about building relationships with his players and getting them to trust him. Finally Larry talks about practice planning, offensive philosophy, defensive philosophy, and game preparation.

Larry McKenzie has long been a voice for justice on the North Side. He joined Mike Max - in for Chad - to talk about last night's looting and vandalism downtown. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Larry McKenzie  is the North High School Head Basketball coach and tells Mike about the logistics of getting school started.  He also addresses the needs in the black communities that are still hurting after the riots.  See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

For this episode Matt is joined by Minneapolis North head boys coach - Larry McKenzie, Richfield boys head coach - Omar McMillan and Timberwolves & Lynx Basketball Academy Director - George Ellis.  These three guests are respected not only in the basketball community but the African American community as well.  The three of them share their feelings on how the death of George Floyd has affected them, why this particular death is receiving worldwide attention, what can white people do to help the progress of racial injustice/bias, and a unique way that Coach McKenzie and his team are working to educate and break down racial barriers.  

In this bonus episode, Hall of Fame Minneapolis high school basketball coach Larry McKenzie shares the key to his coaching success, the mentor who changed his life and what he believes parents should be teaching their children right now.   Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue-chip athletes and coaches.

In our Season 2 Premiere conversation with Hall of Fame Minneapolis high school basketball coach Larry McKenzie, we discuss the impact of his educator parents had on him, the importance of sports in his journey, and his insights into the killing of George Floyd.    Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue-chip athletes and coaches.

Larry McKenzie is an author, speaker, and six-time high school championship basketball coach in North Minneapolis. Larry connected with Chanda over Zoom to talk about what makes someone an effective leader, how to combat negative narratives in our communities, and the profound impact extracurricular activities have on our youth.

Football coach at North Community High School Larry McKenzie shares his insight on what is happening now and what it will take to move forward. 

Larry McKenzie is the head coach for the Minneapolis North High School basketball team. Not only is he one of the greatest coaches we've seen, he's a husband, a father, an author, and a community leader. He joins Henry to discuss the NBA G League, The Last Dance series and is he concerned about high school athletics for this upcoming year? 

Larry McKenzie is the Boys’ Varsity Head Coach at Minneapolis North Community High School. He is the first coach to win four straight state titles in the 100-year history of the Minnesota High School Boys Basketball Tournament. In 2017, Coach McKenzie became the first Coach in Minnesota High School Basketball History to lead two separate schools to multiple titles, both Minneapolis Patrick Henry and Minneapolis North. Larry is a long-time community and youth advocate with 20 plus years of experience working with urban youth. His service to young people has earned him numerous awards and recognition including KARE 11’s Eleven Who Care, KTCA’s Everyday Hero, the Minneapolis Park Board’s Volunteer of the Year, and Positive Image Father of the Year. In 2014, Larry McKenzie became the first African-American Coach selected to the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame. As the Hoop Heads Podcast audience grows week by week, your 5 star ratings and reviews help fuel our growth. Please subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast app, when you do the latest episodes will hit your phone as soon as they drop. Let a friend or coaching colleague know about the show and join the thousands of others who have become a part of Hoop Heads Nation. Be prepared to listen and learn from our conversation with Coach Larry McKenzie from Minneapolis North Community High School in the state of Minnesota. Website - http://coachmckenzie.com/ (coachmckenzie.com) Email - coachmckenzie1@gmail.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/Coachmckenzie (@coachmckenzie)   Support this podcast

Today on the UWANTGAME PODCAST we have Coach Larry McKenzie. Coach McKenzie is a six time Minnesota Boys State Championship Coach. He is also an Author, Educator and speaker. In 2014, Coach McKenzie became the first African-American Coach selected to the Minnesota Basketball Hall of Fame. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uwantgame/support

Larry McKenzie was a great podcast guest!  He's the type of coach who doesn't build teams, he builds young men.    He was the first coach in Minnesota basketball history to lead two schools to multiple titles, Minneapolis Patrick Henry and Minneapolis North.    He's been inducted into the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, he is an NCAA Living Legend award winner and Positive Coaching Alliance Community Impact Award recipient.    Getting into coaching was a fluke for McKenzie who started his career in sales, but he now considers coaching his calling.  We hope you enjoy this conversation about building lives, building dreams, getting good grades and working together as a team.  Coach McKenzie speaks to school and business organizations, to learn more about him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachmckenzie/

Larry McKenzie is a Hall of Fame basketball coach who recognizes it takes more than talent to win a championship. What's the secret to success on the court, and coaching boys to be men? He joins the 'Youth Sports Intervention' Podcast with Lea B. Olsen. 

*Why this offseason is the most important for the Wolves front office *Larry McKenzie talks high school hoops, college hoops and more *What will the Wolves do about the point guard position? *Myron and Manny make their playoff predictions

Myron Medcalf talks with Minneapolis North Hoops coach Larry McKenzie on the NBA and of course high school basketball in the state of Minnesota. Myron, Manny and Reuvers then talk some Wild, Johnny Heidt has another sports update, then there's more high school hoops convo.

On this week's episode I bring you a conversation with my uncle Larry McKenzie. This conversation took place during my trip to Quitman Mississippi during the Thanksgiving weekend of 2016. Larry shares his experiences growing up in Quitman and being apart of the initial integrated classes in the school system. He gives his firsthand accounts of the ups and downs of being a black child in a predominately white school and the breaking down of color barriers in Quitman, MS.

Business of Tues New & The Crew. Talk2Us. Our guest is Coach Larry McKenzie, an experienced leader, education professional, speaker, coach, and "life changer." His celebrated career – in the locker room, on the basketball court, in the community, and with organizations – are inspiring. The Crew - VJ Smith remote from Sammy's Avenue Eatery; Neva Walker & King talk with Coach Larry McKenzie. King Demetrius Pendleton reporting 'Your neck of the Hood' for SBBMS, GMNLiveTV and GMSNewsChannel.  GMSbuzz & Guest Contact: *Sat., 6.18. From 1-3PM. YiG Stars & Stop bullying Now Movement present TeenTalk REAL. RAW. REALITY. LIVE Broadcast. We invite Teens be apart of LIVE Audience Outside. Families are welcome @ North Community YMCA for Youth and Teens, 1711 W. Broadway, Mpls, MN 55411. *Sat., 6.25. 1-5PM. 3rd Annual Stop Youth Violence hosted by Brothers EMpowered & MHYSA. YiGStars & SbNM have been invited to host TeenTalk REAL. RAW. REALITY. Live 2:30-2:45PM & 3:45-4:00PM. @ North Commons Park Youth and Teen Center, 1801 James Ave N., Mpls. *Sat., 7.9 @ Hue-Man Ole 4th Ave South Day Parade and Festival. Apostle/Prophet SB Barber & The Crew Pastor Devin Miller, VJ Smith, Neva Walker, Prophet CAS Stalling, King Demetrius Pendleton take the gloves off and discuss current issues, headlines on local & global community fronts. Follow http://tobtr.com/sbbarbermorningshow; Twitter@GMNetwork; Facebook@GMNLiveTv; Instagram@GMNLIVETV. Presented by GRACE Media Network