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Developing Team Leaders Part 1

Developing Team Leaders Part 1

One of the most important factors that go into a successful season is leadership from the players. We see in the pros and in college that teams that have a solid group of leaders “in the clubhouse” tend to have better chemistry and thus have a more successful season. You see teams trade for veterans [...]

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Building Blocks for Girls Lacrosse

Kudda was privy to attend the McDonogh-Roland Park Country School girls lacrosse game yesterday. Kudda is looking into adding an IAAM Game of the Week to match what we provide for the boys game. The McDonogh girls team, ranked the #1 HS team in the country, visited RPCS in a key matchup of IAAM powers.
So [...]

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How to Coach in a Blowout

How to Coach in a Blowout

In a perfect coaching world, every game is close but your team wins because you have prepared your players better than your opponent. In other words… you out-coached them!! Granted, during the course of a season there’s going to be some close games and probably several more where there is a larger margin. However, what [...]

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Deciding Which Level or League to Play

Deciding Which Level or League to Play

What level should your team play? Usually, teams have the option to play at various levels. Should you place them at the top level, “A”, or place them in the average level, “B”, or in a developmental level, “C”? Is it better to play at a higher level against better competition and probably lose every [...]

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What to Say Before a Game? Pre-Game Talks

What to Say Before a Game? Pre-Game Talks

Many of the Spring season teams actually started to play games this past weekend. For those of us in the Mid-Atlantic region, this is nothing short of a miracle, especially if we remember what it was like one month ago… 50 inches of snow on the ground.
With the start of games, comes the start of [...]

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Handling the Bench Players

Handling the Bench Players

There are several coaching adages out there that deal with the bench player. “You’re only as good as your weakest player”, probably rings true. Even though, most coaches focus on developing the starters’ talents and abilities rather than the non-starters. Several problems could arise from ignoring the bench players or treating them differently than the [...]

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Team Rules: What to Avoid

As coaches begin their new season, they will be communicating their expectations to their parents and players. Often times, coaches will substitute or supplement their expectations with Team Rules. “Don’t do this… and Don’t do that…” Then the coach will spell out the consequences for violating the team rule. BIG MISTAKE!
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New Season Checklist

New Season Checklist

Many of us are starting the Spring Season and this is just a quick reminder of different things that we coaches need to address.

Clearance to coach- make sure you have registered and have completed your background checks
Found a team mom/dad/manager to help organize snacks and other events for the team
Have 2-3 assistants lined up?
Take your [...]

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  • DEFINING COACHING LEADERSHIP
    The definition of coaching leadership will vary depending on who you talk to.  The definition for me is in the words.  Coaching leadership at the youth level is the ability to coach young leaders.  We are coaching football, but the reality of the situation is the percentage of players who will go onto the college [...] […]
  • PRACTICE ORGANIZATION
    I have always divided practices up into individual periods, group periods and team periods. Individual periods have players working with their own positional groups.   During these periods our players would be working on techniques and skills specific to their respective positions. Group periods can either remain with players on the same side of the football […]

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  • What Many Athletes & Coaches Are Missing: Purpose Driven Practices & Training July 31, 2010
    Throughout my sports & athletic development career I’ve consistently witnessed team practices, individual workouts with trainers, fitness classes, etc. conducted with no theme or objective. Often the athlete or student will leave the workout or practice unfulfilled & bored (just went through the motions), frustrated (experienced little to no improvem […]
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  • Lazing Tasing Days of Baseball July 31, 2010
    When 17-year-old Steve Consalvi ran onto the field during the 8th inning of a Major League Baseball game in Philadelphia http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5165782 he never would have imagined the material he was about to give to every sports talk radio host across the country. No one could have been happier than this group of broadcasters. [...] […]
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  • "What are your goals for a child playing sports?" July 31, 2010
    Peter Barston is back with another question. Peter is the remarkable teen from Darien, Connecticut who enlightened us last winter with an unusual research project. Peter, assisted by his dad, decided he had to get to the bottom of this question: Why do kids play sports? So he put together a survey and passed it out to hundreds of kid players in his hometown. […]
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  • "An unlikely source of hope in Newark, NJ" July 31, 2010
    Inspiring coach. Wonderful story.This post originally published at http://www.youthsportsparents.blogspot.com […]
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