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"No lines, No laps, No Lectures" - Karl Dewazien

"I'm a volunteer -- You Can't Make Me Do Anything!" by Jim Paglia

The surest way I have found to identify effective volunteers is to have a specific and discernible task for them to perform. Inviting people to serve in a general fashion is usually nonproductive. Vol...

Unhealthy Competition by Regan McMahon

Because winning has become that important. The time has come to get our priorities straight. No trophy, no scholarship is worth endangering our child's health. We seem to have lost sight of the fact t...

Why isn't my child playing more? Just what Coaches want to hear, right? by Rudy Waluch

A lot of what this question is rooted in is what I like to call, "Positional Anxiety", and coaches need to work to manage this type of anxiety in a whole host of creative ways. Positional anxiety occ...

Coach-Parent Partnership by Jim Thompson

Research is clear that when parents and teachers work together a child tends to do better in school. There is no reason to think that it is any different in youth sports. The following are some guidel...

Clocking Your Passes

Recently I wrote about the great Brazilian player Dunga. I explained how he was the one who delivered the masterful passes to Romano or Ronaldo in World Cup play. He was unseen by the world wide audie...