Youth sports continue to grow at an incredible rate year after year. Instead of recommending that kids play multiple sports, we only seem to add more games to the schedule and make it mandatory to stick to one in order to stay in the rat race. More games during the year means more practices, more at bats, more innings pitched. On top of that, it’s getting ridiculously competitive at the youngest levels.
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Separating yourself as a young athlete
Phrases that get past down from generation to generation with no substance behind them drive me nuts. Sayings that you hear trying to elicit motivation with no road map to get to where you want to go. Could you imagine if a coach got his or her players fired up to go somewhere 5 hours away and then didn’t give them directions? If they wanted the whole team to arrive at the destination wouldn’t they want to give as much detail as possible?
Building your own house
As a coach, I’m drawn to using analogies as a way to describe the complex nature of developing athletes. For some reason it provides clarity finding connections with seemingly unrelated things. On the one hand, coaching athletes SHOULD be simple. We are servant leaders there to help reach their potential, right? As well all know, it’s never that simple. Psychology, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology and communication are some of the many things we need to understand to be effective
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