My youngest was playing in her last soccer tournament of the season. This was the last game. They had played two games the day before and a game earlier in the day. This was it. They immediately scored a quick goal on this team and was up 1-0. Not too long after that her team [...]
I was talking to a buddy about his kid who plays on the school baseball team and he was railing on the coach. Being a coach, I like to cut them some slack, but when there are bad ones there are bad ones. But, is this a bad coach? First off, my buddy was a [...]
Not too long ago, a multi-sport athlete meant you played more than one sport in separate seasons. For example, in the fall, you’d play football, the winter basketball, and in the spring baseball. On the rare occasion you might have someone play different sports in the same season. You might have a soccer player be [...]
Recently, I had inquired about why a certain athlete was not making the workouts. I asked two teammates and they said basically that it boiled down to this person being lazy. And to be honest, I already had figured that out. It got me thinking that young athletes can make the same assumptions about their [...]
I was reading a Facebook post of a colleague of mine, Lee Taft. He made a statement that was more of an opinion, but it was something along the lines of our foods are loaded with chemicals and other junk. This type of nutrition is attributing to the rise in ACL tears and probably other [...]
Can you believe this year is almost over? It seems I was writing the same thing last year. The days just fly by. Understandably so, you have been busy and probably haven’t had the chance to read everything that I write. So, if you missed a lot of the 2017 blog posts, you should take [...]
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 [...]