Category: Coaching
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Concussions: When Can Youth Athletes Return to Play?
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Teaching Young Athletes to Own Their Actions
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Small Moments Can Lead to Big Success
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New Team? Here’s How to Make It Strong
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How to Prevent Victim Mentality in the Young Athlete
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How to Raise Speak-Up Athletes
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5 Mantras to Boost Sports Performance
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Youth Sports Success: Two Hurdles and How to Clear Them
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Expectations: How High Should They Be?
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5 Ways to Prepare Feet for Summer
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How to Communicate with Your Child’s Coach
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Got a Minute? Score Major Benefits with Sprints
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How to Use TeamSnap in the Offseason
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Sports Parenting: How to Avoid Creating a Sense of Entitlement
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Paralympic Track Medalist Chris Waddell on What It Takes to Win
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The 10,000 Hour Misunderstanding — Focus on Quality Not Quantity in Practice
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In Search of the Playmaker’s Advantage
This is the first of a three-part book excerpt from The Playmaker’s Advantage, available wherever books are sold. By Daniel Peterson and Leonard Zaichkowsky, Ph.D. How hard could it be?…
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Tracking The Next Generation of World Cup Soccer Players
In June, when the world’s best men’s soccer teams kickoff World Cup 2018, we will be painfully reminded that Team USA will not be among them for the first time…
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The Inner and Outer Journey of Youth Sports
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Bringing Best Practices from the Classroom to the Ballfields
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Pressure in Youth Sports: Protect Kids or Teach Them to Deal With It?
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Balance: The Foundation of Success
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5 Things That Should Be Part of Every Kid’s Hockey Experience
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3 Team Management Halloween Horror Stories
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8 Essential Communication Tips for Youth Sports Coaches
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Is Your Child’s Coach Playing Favorites?
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The Importance of Self-Confidence and Self-Efficacy
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How to Turn Your Team Into the Next Cinderella Story
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3 Coaching Mistakes That are Crushing Youth Sports
Youth coaches volunteer their time to teach life lessons through sports. Most are former players, some from the high school or even college level. It’s an honorable sacrifice and we…
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5 Tips on How to Build Team Chemistry
Recently, 2014 World Cup Golden Boot Award winner James Rodriguez ended an underwhelming three year spell with soccer club Real Madrid. Oddly enough, he immediately returned to his 2014 form…
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How Coaches Can Stay Organized During the Offseason
Ah, the offseason. The perfect time for some much needed rest and relaxation from your busy coaching schedule. Time to kick back, relax and binge watch your favorite TV shows….
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Replace Frustration with Knowledge
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7 Baseball Team Statistics You Should Be Capturing
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Should Kids Get Trophies for Participation?
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Confessions of a Crybaby
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It’s Not All About Winning…But We Still Want to Win! (Part 3)
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The Purpose of Youth Sports: It’s All About Perspective
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It’s Not All About Winning…But We Still Want to Win! (Part 2)
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It’s Not All About Winning…But We Still Want to Win! (Part 1)
We’ve all been there. As a coach, you do your best to make sure all your players have fun and learn the sport. But for whatever reason, you just can’t…
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The Top 6 Biggest Mistakes Youth Sports Coaches Make
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Baseball Field Maintenance Tips For Coaches And Volunteers
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Coaching Would Be So Much Fun If It Weren’t For…
Some days you just wish it would rain. Hard. Like, with lightning and thunder. So you could just cancel practice, or the game. Or both. Or the whole dang season!…
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Managing Expectations
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When in Doubt, Sit Them Out: Concussion Safety Tips for Parents
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Creating a Winning Environment for Youth Sports Parents
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So You Want to Coach Youth Sports, Huh?
Congratulations! You did it! Or maybe you’re about to do it, or thinking about it. Whatever the case, coaching youth sports is on your mind. That might excite, terrify, worry…
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Using Statistics in Youth Sports
Moneyball is reaching youth sports and it’s a welcome trend for me, both as a coach and parent. For those unfamiliar with the book by Michael Lewis and movie based…
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The Xs and Os of Championship Culture: The Playbook for Winning
People are drawn to winners. When you constantly promote your process but do not show results and win, there is message fatigue. I noticed this during my first few years…
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The Top 3 Team Management Proverbs
Ever heard the phrase “the grass is always greener on the other side”? It’s a proverb, which is sort of like a little snippet of wisdom (or a cool phrase…
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How to Create a Positive Sport Experience from the Sidelines
About a year ago, I wrote an open letter to parents about the importance of respecting referees. The positive response I received was amazing, not to mention a few nods…
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7 Essential Tips for Youth Sports Coaches
For coaches, one of the best parts of youth sports is watching young athletes grow, build confidence and improve their physical skills. How can coaches ensure that their players will improve? By maximizing…
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5 Key Communication Tips for Coaches
Coaching is all about improvement. If you want to help your players get better, it’s important to always improve your coaching skills, too. That’s why we’re thrilled to bring you…
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Making the Team: A Parent’s Role
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Coaching the Squat for Long-Term Success
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5 Questions to Ask Your Young Athlete’s Coach Before You Commit
You’ve done your research and you’ve decided to get your young ballplayer into youth baseball. You’ve checked with friends around town, so you know about the local programs and what they…
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Coaching the Pushup for Long-Term Success
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How You Can Help Your Young Athlete Fight the Playing Time Battle
There reaches a point in youth sports when equal playing time is no longer assumed. Once kids reach the age where playing time is not automatic, the fight will ensue…
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6 Tips to Help Coaches Teach Parents About LTAD
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Failure: The Secret to Success
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Stop Using ‘Play Like a Girl’ as an Insult & Celebrate Instead
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Why Hockey Might Be Right for Your Young Athlete
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What I Learned from 40 Years of Coaching
I have dedicated the past forty plus years to providing youth coaches with the best information to be successful. Why? Because successful coaches give their players the best opportunities to…
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How Young Athletes Can Stop Choking Under Pressure
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Now You Can Organize Everything With TeamSnap Assignments
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In Support of Excellence: Single-Sport Specialization Isn’t a Bad Thing
For some time now, we’ve been reading articles, blogs and op-eds about kids (and their parents) spending an inordinate amount of time and money on a single sport. We read…
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Do You Know What to Do if Your Young Athlete Gets a Concussion?
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Be an Active Coach, Not Just a Warm Body on the Sidelines
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TeamSnap Sponsors Positive Coaching Alliance’s Double-Goal Coach® Award
At TeamSnap, we love coaches. We know they are some of the most important people in our kids’ lives. Not just because they teach how to win and lose gracefully…
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What Is Performance Anxiety And What Can We Do About It?
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3 Signs of a Healthy Team
As a former collegiate and professional athlete and an athletic trainer, I’ve seen it all when it comes to team dynamics. I’ve seen great teams that stick together, support each…
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5 Ways for Coaches to Communicate Better
What’s the difference between a good coach and a great coach? Often, the answer comes down to one thing: Communication. Good coaches ensure everyone gets the message; great coaches help…
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Personal Goals = Team Success: Guaranteed!
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Teachable Moments in Youth Sports
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3 Ways Open Communication Improves the Youth Sports Experience
The dynamics between players, coaches and parents have become notoriously difficult to manage–and understandably so. The complexity that results from the intermingling of these relationships is due to the very…
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5 Ways to Encourage Team Building in Youth Baseball
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Asking a Problem Player or Parent to Leave the Team
By Evan Tabachnick & Warren Tabachnick It might not be something you want to consider, but sometimes a player or his/her parents are so problematic for the team that the…
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On the Road to Success, Not Taking the Shortcut is the Shortcut
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Three Ways Parents Can Encourage Mental Toughness
When my work first started to focus on helping young athletes reach their potential in sports and life, I was told by a business coach that I had to “brand”…
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5 Ways to Get Team Parents on Your Side
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What if Your Coach Doesn’t Get Along with Your Young Athlete?
If a young athlete feels that the coach doesn’t like him or her, that young athlete’s confidence can take a serious hit. Confusing questions can start to dominate an athlete’s…
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The Pros and Cons of Participation Trophies for Young Athletes
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How to Organize Your Youth Sports Schedule Before the Season Starts
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Building Confidence in Young Athletes
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2016 Positive Coaching Alliance Double-Goal Coach Award
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Martial Arts Philosophy: A Way of Mental Toughness
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Confidence: How to Get It and Keep It
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3 Ways to Gain Your Coach’s Trust This Season
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Concussions and the Future of Tackle Football
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How Speed Can Help Young Athletes On and Off the Field
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How Parents and Coaches Can Become Better Teammates
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6 Ways to Help Your Kids Learn Sportsmanship
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3 Tips for Surviving Your Next Tryout
Trying out for a sports team can be a scary process. Coaching evaluations, competition for roster spots with other players, and even expectations from parents can be enough to fill…
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Honor Your Coach with a National Award from the Positive Coaching Alliance!
Coaches are some of the most important people in the lives of children and young adults. They teach meaningful lessons, they lend a caring ear and a helpful boost up,…
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Youth Sports: When Kids Pay the Price for Cheating Parents
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Why Are Parents Still Ruining Youth Sports?
He was desperate, this little boy. Desperate to impress the evaluators. Desperate to impress the coach (me). And above all else, desperate to impress his dad. Hockey tryouts have arrived…
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7 Reasons You’ll Want to Coach Your Child’s Team
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L’entraînement en chiffres
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Coaching By the Numbers
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Feature Alert: Soccer Game Clock and Period Tracking for TeamSnap Live!
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3 Things Any Team Can Learn from the 2015 NBA Champs
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