About
My Mission
Welcome to my website, sportseducationexperience.com! I am Coach Jerry Hernandez, the founder of Athletic Concepts & Solutions, LLC. I am recently retired after forty-five years as a teacher, coach and athletic director at both the high school and college levels. The mission of my company is twofold. First, based on my years of experience as an athlete, parent and coach, my goal is to bring to you innovative and relevant ideas, approaches and information to help coaches be effective in providing instruction and guidance. Secondly, to offer solutions to everyday issues that arise with “The Athletic Trinity”…parents, players and coaches… both individually and as a team to work together in the world of athletic competition.
My family and I have been involved in athletics and education most of our lives, and we continue to provide service to others, and I bring that mind set and experience into the goals for my company. I feel confident and enthusiastic about bringing helpful information, especially to coaches and parents, as we all work our way in this wonderful and unpredictable world of sports in which we live.
The Author
Coach Jerry Hernandez has been a high school and college basketball coach for forty-five years. Thirty-two of those years he was a classroom teacher of English, Social Studies and Career Readiness. He has coached at public, private and Catholic schools and is now retired as of 2019, but still serves as a volunteer assistant at Jesuit High School in New Orleans, LA. He is a graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana-Lafayette) and holds a Master’s degree in Education from the University of New Orleans. He is a United States Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran and received an honorable discharge holding the rank of Sergeant and the recipient of the Navy Commendation w/Combat “V” individual award.
Of Coach Hernandez’ forty five years in the coaching profession, twenty-seven of those years have been as a head coach and eighteen as an assistant. He helped reinstitute athletics at Loyola University New Orleans in 1991 as an assistant athletic director after the school dropped intercollegiate athletics in 1972. He started a non-scholarship basketball program from scratch and remained in that position for thirteen years. He also served as the university’s athletic director. His 1994-95 team won the NAIA United States Southwest Region championship and participated in the NAIA Division II national tournament, all without the benefit of athletic scholarships or institutional funding.. He was named the region’s Coach of the Year. This past year, Coach Hernandez and his team were inducted into the Loyola Wolf Pack Athletics Hall of Fame. He has also been an athletic director at the high school level. His high school coaching record is 225-197 over his 14 years as a high school head coach.
He is the author and presenter of a seminar entitled “The Athletic Trinity : Parents, Players and Coaches – Can They Co-exist?” that has been presented to high school parent groups over the years. He is available for this service upon request. In addition, he has authored an informational booklet of the same title that is available and is an expanded version of his seminar. His newest book targets student-athletes and is entitled “Make it Easy – A Guide to Success and Fulfillment in a High School Career and Life that Follows”
