I try to make it out to as many games possible that my athletes play in. That being said, I can usually tell the type of effort my athlete will give during a game based on what I see during the warmups. Part of my mission with athletes is to teach them what it means [...]
What I do not like about the youth sports atmosphere currently is the seriousness level that is being played at such a young age. I’m not a big fan of the glorification of the Little League World Series for example. They are playing that thing at a time when kids should be playing with their [...]
An athlete messes up in a game. Maybe you see it, maybe you don’t. You then hear the coach say, “I’ve explained this to you a hundred times.” Heck, even as parents you’ve probably said that to your kids…a lot. So what does that tell you? The athlete has a learning disability and is not [...]
I think the toughest thing for kids to handle is being cut from a team or not making the ‘A’ team that they wanted to. I’m not talking high school kids, I’m talking junior high age or younger. We have put such an emphasis on sports that there is a heck of a lot of [...]
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 [...]