I remember when I first started coaching kids, I thought I would treat them with respect. Treat them how I would want to be treated. Basically, I thought that I tell them something to do and they would just do it because I was the coach and they were the athletes. I quickly learned that [...]
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 [...]
For the longest time, athletes were told to avoid taking caffeine. There was concern that the cons outweighed the pros and people were scared it would not be effective in improving athletic performance. Like any “questionable supplement” research is showing that if taken properly, caffeine might be the secret ingredient to give an athlete that [...]
I had a quick email exchange with a father this past week who was explaining to me why he hadn’t been back in touch with me to schedule an assessment. He said he was trying to get a commitment from his son if the dad was going to spend the money. He finished by saying, [...]
Last week was a busy week for my daughter. She was in the school play which ran this past weekend. She was also part of something called Battle of the Books. Basically, it’s like “In The Know” except it is schools battling over answering questions about a ton of books they read. She also [...]
I read a great article about how self-talk could affect your performance in a positive way. The article started with a story about legendary American runner Steve Prefontaine losing a 3 mile race in 1974. The last quarter mile, he rallied to take the lead and the victory. When asked how he pulled out the [...]
If Shakespeare were alive today, I have a feeling that his famous “to be or not to be” line would have been transformed into “to specialize or not to specialize”. Assuming he was into athletics. That seems to be the big question facing today’s athletes and parents. On the surface, it might make sense. [...]
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 [...]