Coaches
How to Create an Energizing, Inspiring, Motivating, and Encouraging Environment for Your Athletes
Coaching is a difficult job. Multi-tasking can wear you down and change your behaviors, emotions, personality, and coaching style. These changes in your life will have a negative impact on [...]
5 Things Every Parent Should Know Before Their Child Joins a Sport
Your child is ready to start their first sport. It’s an exciting time! While you’re setting schedules, arranging carpools, and getting the right equipment, don’t forget to spend [...]
How To Coach Problematic Athletes
When I say “problem athlete,” you all know what I am referring to. At least one athlete just doesn’t like the training or your coaching style on every team. This [...]
Get SafeSport ® Trained. End Abuse in Sport.
We all want to feel safe. This is especially true in sport environments, where athletes at every level should be empowered to learn, grow, thrive, and reap the [...]
How to Prevent Hazing in High School Sports
What is Hazing? Hazing is something that some have heard of, but it remains a mystery to many. Hazing is the act of humiliating, degrading, or abusing a group of [...]
Recruiting Enthusiastic Youth Athletes
"Recruiting enthusiastic kids is harder than it's ever been."- Geno Auriemma, 11-time champion coach, UCONN Women's Basketball. One of the more complex performance capacities is the inspirational capacity, which is [...]
Resources to Help Prevent Abuse and Misconduct in Sport
Headlines covering abuse and misconduct in sport can seem too big, too daunting. Where do we turn for answers? How do we become part of the solution? [...]
4 Tips For First Time Coaches
Being a coach of any kind can be a stressful and intimidating job, especially when you are just starting. There are so many factors that go into being a good [...]
Four Simple Things You Can Do To Help Peak for a Competition
Coaches love talking about periodization and planning for competitions. Unfortunately, this leaves many athletes bamboozled and they fail to make the most of what they can do when they compete. [...]
Sport Should Be a Safe Place for Everyone. You Can Help.
At its essence, sport is a place where we can go to learn, grow, and thrive, both physically and emotionally. And no matter the ages of the participants [...]