Share this article: Click Here to Tweet I have a BIG problem with coaches who want all the credit when their players/team succeed, but look for someone or something to blame when they fail. If you’re going to TAKE the credit, take it ALL, good and bad. OR… Check your dang ego at the door …
Your challenge as a coach (or parent)… “Raise your words, not your voice…” Do you know people who can only emphasize a point by getting louder and louder and louder? It seems they only way they know how to get anyone to really pay attention is to yell? Don’t be that person. Find better ways …
Share this article: Click Here to Tweet Should coaches let players “pay” for their mistakes? I’ve seen people say, NO! Coaches need to STOP making players “pay” for their mistakes. I disagree. Amanda Scarborough once wrote a message in which she talks about competing… “Competing has become somewhat of a lost art for this generation …
Share this article: Click Here to Tweet One of the most frustrating things for an athlete is being coached by someone who ONLY knows how to explain something the way THEY learned it or the way it was explained to them. Coach, even if you already KNOW something, learn it AGAIN… from a different person …
Share this article: Click here to Tweet I saw this image and it reminded me of an important fastpitch softball tip. I shared it on facebook and lots of people liked it! My high school chemistry teacher always said, “More is not better.” Now that I’m older I agree with him. More is not always …
