Category: Editorials
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7 Ways to Find Balance During the Holiday Season
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5 Ways to Find Balance During the Holiday Rush
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6 Athlete-Tested Tips to Build Confidence
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4 Types of Success Every Athlete Can Achieve
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7 Ways to Empower Young Female Athletes
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Helping Sports Kids Take Responsibility for Their Confidence
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Encouraging Athletes: The Importance of Positive Self-Talk
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4 Healthy Habits for Kids in the New Year
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Innovation: How We Take the Work out of Play
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Feel Good Moments
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Identifying Sports Kids Top Confidence Killers: Part II
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Identifying the Top Confidence Killers: Part One
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Healthy and Hassle Free Half-Time Snack Ideas
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5 Ways to Strengthen Your Sports Organization Community
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Pirate or Penguin? How Improv Makes TeamSnap More Nimble and Effective
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5 Ways to Create an Engaging Website for Your Sports Club
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How to Boost Sports Performance With Your Eyes Closed
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How Setting Goals Can Keep Kids Motivated During Time Off
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A message from TeamSnap co-founder Andrew Berkowitz
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5 Ways to Help Kids Stay Positive
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5 Winning Ways (and Reasons!) to Cross Train
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Why Should Track & Field Athletes Run Hills?
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An Eye-Opening Q & A with the Author of Fast Girls
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5 Character-Building Lessons for Youth Athletes
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How to Teach Balance Between School and Sports
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Winning in Youth Sports
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3 Ways to Keep Kids Active During Holiday Breaks
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How to Help Your Young Athlete Get Along
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Help Your Child Learn to Set Goals
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10 Ways Parents Can Make Athletes Happy
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4 Ways to Keep Kids Playing Sports
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3 Ways to Help Kids Fulfill Their Potential
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4 Questions You Must Ask Yourself as a Sports Parent
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How to Fight the Urge to Fix Everything for Young Athletes
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Why It’s Important to Train Right
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How to Help Your Child Handle Sports Pressure
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6 Back-in-School Tips for Over-Stretched Sports Parents
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7 Reasons Playing Sports Should Be a Joy for Your Child
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10 Concussion Facts Sports Parents Should Know
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How to Coach “Achievers” and Help Them Avoid Burnout
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Concussions: When Can Youth Athletes Return to Play?
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Why TeamSnap Supports the Positive Coaching Alliance
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TeamSnap and Guide Dogs for the Blind: Raising Puppy Heroes
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Teaching Young Athletes to Own Their Actions
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Pelotonia: Fighting to End Cancer With TeamSnap
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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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7 Ways to Boost the Back-to-School Sports Experience
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How to Prevent Victim Mentality in the Young Athlete
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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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How Healthy Are Sports Drinks, Anyway?
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12 Things You Can Do With the 12 Hours a Week TeamSnap Saves You
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5 Reasons Your Young Athlete Should Try Rowing
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The Importance of Self-Confidence and Self-Efficacy
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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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Dealing with Disappointment: 3 Questions That Can Help
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Youth Sports Lessons from the NBA Summer League
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Should Kids Get Trophies for Participation?
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The Top 5 Biggest Mistakes Youth Sports Parents Make
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Dealing with Difficult Parents on the Sidelines
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Stop Using ‘Play Like a Girl’ as an Insult & Celebrate Instead
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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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Be an Active Coach, Not Just a Warm Body on the Sidelines
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Sports Parents Yesterday vs. Today
As a former coach with well over 30 years of experience helping young people learn to play soccer and learn life lessons on the field, I’ve seen some changes over…
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Confidence Is Overrated
I have worked with hundreds of athletes who come to me for “lack of confidence” or “low confidence” in their performances. Well, what if I told you that the truth…
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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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Tips on Being the Best Sports Parent, Before, During and After the Game
Shane Carney is Founder & Director of the East Bay Eclipse Soccer Club Our kids learn from what we say and do. Don’t we all want to be the kind of…
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How to Prevent Torn ACL Injuries Before They Happen to Our Young Athletes
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Letting Young Kids Specialize in One Sport is a Bad Idea
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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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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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3 Things Any Team Can Learn from the 2015 NBA Champs
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The Neighborhood Pick-up Baseball Game: Lessons from the Past
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Are Youth Sports Better Today Than Yesterday?
In a recent blog post by Koach Karl Dewazien, he wrote about the differences between youth sports today and when he began coaching 30 years ago. One reader responded with…
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Tim Duncan & The Importance of Servant Leadership
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One Coach’s Take on ‘Win at All Costs’ Parents and Teams
Here’s a question that Koach Karl of the FUNdamental Soccer Book Series and TeamSnap Blog contributor received, and his response: Question: The culture of all American sports is to win,…
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Let Success Lift You
Have you ever had one of those days where everything seems to be going wrong? It’s the kind of day you wish you stayed in bed, however, if you did,…
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Are Soccer Coaches & Parents Out of Line on the Sidelines?
In our quest to help young soccer players improve, we may have started something that is more harmful than helpful. It is natural for adults to shout encouragement and advice…
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Why the Best Vacation Policy is No Policy At All
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POV Swap: The Ideal Parent and the Ideal Coach
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‘Jock’ or ‘Artist’: Why Do Kids Have to Choose?
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How Much Is Too Much to Spend on Tee Ball Gear?
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What Message is Jurgen Klinsmann Sending to Our Youth?
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The Quitting Phenomenon
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TeamSnap HQ Employees React to Flooding in the Colorado Front Range
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Becoming More Than a Bystander – On and Off the Field
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Is My Player Ready for Competitive Soccer? Part 2
Last time we looked at several topics I believe should be considered in determining if your player is ready for the jump to club soccer. Things such as whether the…
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TeamSnap All-Stars: OWLS-Dragonflies Dragon Boat Team. How These Lawyers Embrace Their Competitive Spirit Outside the Courtroom
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“Simulation”: Cheating or Gamesmanship?
Webster defines simulation as “the act or process of pretending; feigning.” For those not familiar with how the term applies to soccer, it can best be characterized as attempting to…
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Is My Player Ready for Competitive Soccer? Part 1
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Should Girls Play on Boys’ Teams?
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Stop Helping Me Fill Out Forms!
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Let’s Hear It For Dad
In honor of Father’s Day, we decided to republish a post celebrating dads and their dedication to kids and sports. What did you do to celebrate Father’s Day? Enjoy the…
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TeamSnap Top 5: Bizarre Sports That You Have Never Heard Of… And Should
Here at TeamSnap, we support over 100 different kinds of sports and non-sports groups. We’re talking everything from Soccer and Softball to Curling and Ki-O-Rahi. This may sound like a…
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Making the Difference
I love messages like the following, which I just received today: “Hi Dave, I’m not sure if this email address is reaching you, Dave Dupont, CEO of Teamsnap. If it is,…
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How Can You Help Athletes to Feel More Confident and Perform Better in Sports?
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Team Parent Playbook: How To Be A Great Team Manager
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