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Are you doing too much?
You finally have seen the light when it comes to sports-based youth development. You wanted to start incorporating all of the tenets in your practices, but now you are exhausted and questioning whether or not you should even try this. I mean you were struggling to even fit in stretching before and now you are…
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Barking in public
It is not unusual to hear grownups barking in public. At sporting events, they do so on beat with thousands of others. At an airport, they do so after locking eyes with someone wearing the right pattern of colors. Rather than acting like animals, they are acting like they are part of the group. Their…
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In one ear
When I get online, I spend most of my time receiving messages. I watch videos. I read blogs. I take in what others are saying. I receive a lot of messages, and then that is that. I know that I received a lot of information, but if you ask me the next day all what…
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Was that really a field?
I headed back from the tournament with a badly skinned knee. The running joke was that the soccer field was actually just a tennis court spray painted green. There was zero give as I fell, as would normally be provided by dirt and grass. It instantly broke the skin. The field, if you could call…
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Just like peanut butter and jelly
It goes together like peanut butter and jelly, a way of saying how obvious a pairing two items are. Or maybe how well two things go together. In either case, I don’t know if you could say that for sports and youth development. Though you probably would want to. Sports can go great with youth…
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What if recruiting was done a little differently?
Wild idea. You know how athletes go on recruiting visits and send out film to impress coaches? What if we flipped that? What if we consulted with kids to help them spot the signs of the best coach and program for them. We would work through the coach’s claims as the first step. Then we…
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Fixed to a mindset
As a child, I was overly attached the idea that I didn’t have “it.” “It” was the thing the other players had which led them to tryout success and more playing time. That is why those girls made it on the team and not me. I didn’t have the thing. But maybe my time would…
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What did you want your team to be?
To say that you feel overwhelmed would be to put it lightly. You got into coaching because you wanted to change lives. You wanted to be a support system. You want kids to see their true potential. And yet you feel like instead you are spending all of you time disciplining and are so busy…
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What will your legacy be?
You can see it now. They will definitely retire your jersey and hoist up on the wall of the gym. Or you will be recorded as one the greatest in the record books. Or even better, forever immortalized with a statue in front of the venue to greet visitors for years to come. After all…
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How much are your coaches worth?
When it comes to youth sport, the focus is of course on the kids. But we do need to take a step back to make sure that coaches have all the support that they need to be great. Yes, you can give them more apps, more training, and mentoring. But it will likely take the…
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