The Good and Bad of Character Transformation in Youth Sports

Unquestionably, youth sports has the potential to be the ideal classroom to teach children character strengths. Yes, it’s true you can’t teach math, science, and English on a field, court, or mat. However, you can teach accountability, resilience, and tenacity using youth sports in ways in which math science, and English can’t be used. What’s […]

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The Common Mental Mistake New Coaches Make When Helping Athletes

From the outside looking in, it appears that the hard part of coaching is teaching athletes technical and tactical skills. While these skills are important, one could easily argue that good technical and tactical coaches are a dime a dozen. Any great athlete could transition from player to coach if all they needed to worry […]

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Another Argument for Multi-Sport Youth Athletes vs. Sport Specialization

Many coaches do a great job pointing out all the reasons why young athletes should play multiple sports. This includes everything from overuse injury prevention, burnout prevention, and simply letting kids be kids.  However, parents who want their kids to specialize in one sport for the sake of dominating the competition often ignore these historically […]

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