This three part blog post was written by one of my former athletes, Mara White. If you haven’t read the first two posts, please look through this blog to find it. Mara did specialize in one sport in high school and this post is in her words why she felt that wasn’t the right decision. [...]
This is part 2 of Mara White’s perspective on sport’s specialization. Mara is a current track coach and former athlete of mine. This is a great read. Please take the time to read it to its entirety. It has great personal insight on what specialization did to her and what she thinks would have happened [...]
I recently ran into one of my former athletes, Mara White, as she is now an assistant track coach for Dublin Scioto. Mara is a former Ohio High school First Team All-State and Division 1 collegiate track and field athlete. I asked her if she wouldn’t mind writing something about her athletic career for my [...]
I noticed the ticker on ESPN displayed new inductees to the Basketball Hall of Fame and one of them was Tracy McGrady. I thought this would be a good time to discuss my theory that even though these athletes have a right to earn a living playing basketball right out of high school, is it [...]
2016 was an interesting year. For my business, we had some exciting things happen: As the year ends, we have two new coaches – Becca Gallagher and Casey Kincer. We had a few of our athletes who have moved on to college athletics – Scott Brooks (lacrosse at Hope College), Taylor Hill (football at Boston [...]
What? Not let him play youth football! Well, it’s not exactly what you think. First off, I don’t have a son (that I know of), so this will never be a discussion in my household. But, this is a topic I’ve thought about for awhile and started sharing with some of my clients who have [...]
I was the strength coach at my old high school Columbus Academy back in 2003. That year we were lucky enough to win the state football championship. It was the second state title in school history. […]
Every so often you see something that makes you scratch your head. I normally just keep those things to myself because if I grab someone’s ear to tell them everything that was on my mind, I’d probably have them stare at me very scared like. […]
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, something else comes along that leaves you in complete disbelief. This past week, I went to a track meet with my daughter to watch a few of my athletes and this was one of those times. […]
I can’t believe another year has gone by. Time really does seem to go by fast. But this year was one of our best EVER. It would not have been possible if it wasn’t for you guys our clients, readers, and followers. With that being said, let’s take a look at some highlights for 2014, [...]