Tag: sport-based youth development
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All of it was futile.
One of the things you have to know if you choose to go down the sport-based youth development path is that it can take a toll on you. You can pour your entire heart in to the work, stack all of the hours, and spend all of your gas money working with and supporting your…
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What makes a good leader?
What makes a good leader? What a great way to pose the question. It highlights that leaders are made not born. Leaders are made through experience. You have to lead to come into your own as a leader. For coaches who hope to develop their athletes into leaders, that means, you have to give them…
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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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A quick message about sports
I want to share the message of sports-based youth development, and I wish there were a quick way to do it. But alas, there are a lot of moving parts. However, the quickest way to do that would be this: Sports can change lives, for better or for worse. People often operate under the assumption…
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The biggest problem in youth sports is probably not what you think it is
Quick, what would you say is the biggest challenge facing youth sports right now? If you are like a lot of people in the field, you will probably say money. Sports is just getting way too expensive these days with the pay-to-play model. Fair, that is a problem. High fees are making sports cost prohibitive,…
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What the melee at a middle school basketball game tells us about what’s important in youth sports
Two weeks ago, a man died at a middle school basketball game. He was not the victim of a sudden onset of a health issue. But instead of a larger issue that plagues us. Violence. As the events were reported, a brawl broke out in the stands. A collection of adults, who should know better,…
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Breaking down sport-based youth development: Supportive environments
As you build out a youth sport program, you definitely need to secure facilities, resources, and players of course. One extra you need to give thought to is the environment. More specifically, how can you craft a supportive environment that is the best for your athletes? A supportive environment is one that is “warm” and…
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Breaking down sport-based youth development: Roots in Positive youth development
To better understand what sport-baesed youth development (or SBYD) is you need to understand Positive Youth Development or PYD. PYD forms the basis for sport-based youth development. I have provided a very quick overview. Positive youth development (PYD) is a framework says youth develop to their fullest potential when they are in the right environments.…
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Quick take on sport-based youth development
Sport-based youth development. What does that mean to you? Maybe you have never heard of the term. Or maybe you did a literal dissertation on it and are ready to educate me on what it actually means. In either case, you came to this article to discover something. So, here I am to help. The…
The Sideline Fix 