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 [...] […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. [...] […]

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. […]

Inspiring coach. Wonderful story.This post originally published at http://www.youthsportsparents.blogspot.com […]

Northwestern and U.S. team star Katrina Dowd unveils her favorite stick-trick shots. […]

 ”As coaches, we have a tremendous amount of influence on kids today. And we place a lot of emphasis on leadership. I equate it to D-Day. The success of the operation were the guys on the beach — me standing next to you. They had to overcome all kinds of stuff to get the job [...] […]