One of my primary objectives of writing each day on this blog is to make the case for why the mental side of sports is more important than the physical side. Recently I wrote two articles to specifically provide details on the “why” behind this. The first article shares specific evidence that proves why the […]
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 […]
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 […]