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My wife is a licensed child therapist who works with children from troubled backgrounds. Recently she was talking about a particular child that just was not responding to counseling, no matter the strategies or techniques used. Sage advice was offered to her from a highly respected therapist with whom she works.
“Our job is to give [...]
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I’ve written on the value of athletics on this blog before. As a coach, you certainly have an understanding of why athletics is important in the life of a young person. I’ve been a college , high school and even a elementary coach. Today, however, I am undertaking a whole new reality. I have volunteered to [...]
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About 10 years ago when I was coaching full-time at the Univ of Virginia, two of my colleagues in the dept recommended a book to me written by a guy named Jeff Janssen called the Team Captain’s Leadership Manual. It was an amazing book and when I became a D1 head coach, I implemented the [...]
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Guest Post by Annette Lynch
When it comes to thinking about preparing for life after sport, most athletes and their support people, are focusing on what they will DO. What new career can they pursue when they are no longer active in sport? How can they earn money?
Unfortunately, less time is spent is spent on thinking [...]
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guest post by Janis B. Meredith
Parents of athletes are not looking for flawless humans to coach their kids.
We realize there is no perfect coach.
But we do have a wish list. As a coach’s wife for 28 year and a sports
parent for 18, I know what I want in a coach and I’m pretty sure most [...]
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Let’s start off by drilling down into what you want as a coach. You want success (no kidding). But how do you define success? Usually we define it as winning. However, there are lots of other ways to define success that are becoming more and more talked about these days by organizations like Positive Coaching [...]
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guest post by Kirk Mango of The Athlete’s Experience
Many years ago, I got into a philosophical debate with another coach on whether sports were a meansof teaching kids about life, through the experiences they had as an athlete, versus developing theathlete as the main priority, with the hope they would learn about life. Now if [...]
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