coaching
April 7, 2016
PCA announces recipients of Double-Goal Coach Award
Meet the 50 national winners of Positive Coaching Alliance's Double-Goal Coach Award, presented by TeamSnap. All 50 are prime examples of coaches who strive to win while also pursuing the more important goal of teaching life lessons through youth a...
February 17, 2016
Halftime adjustments to spark your team
Rarely do you find a basketball game that plays exactly the same from the first half to the second. Teams go into the locker room at halftime, and make critical adjustments. But when one team plays better, the other one plays worse. So what happens ...
January 14, 2016
The quarterback club
How Capital QB Academy is improving Wisconsin’s signal callers A quarterback’s greatest asset is his arm, but playing the position starts with the feet. That’s an idea that might sound counterintuitive to those not engrained in the game...
January 14, 2016
The importance of trust between coaches and athletes
Because trust is such a critical component of peak performance, coaches and athletes must continually look to build and maintain it. Trust is the ultimate goal of all peak performance training. Whether it’s an individual athlete attempting to pe...
January 13, 2016
Overcoming the wall: Beating obstacles to high performance
It's frustrating for athletes when they're running on fumes, feeling like they have nothing more to give and that no matter what they do there is nothing left to push past a seemingly insurmountable wall. They can feel hopelessness, discouragement an...
November 6, 2015
Vision, purpose and values are crucial to athletic programs
After I graduated college, in a fit of reckless abandon that had nothing to do with my bachelor’s in history, I decided to become a coach. I was looking for something interesting, fun and not necessarily practical. My idea was always to be happy...
November 2, 2015
From the ground up
How one Florida school brought football to campus with the help of its basketball team [caption id="attachment_14453" align="aligncenter" width="490"] Photos courtesy of Faith Christian Academy[/caption] For years, Tony Medina wanted to start a f...
October 29, 2015
Praying high school football coach placed on paid leave
A Washington high school football coach has been placed on paid leave after ignoring district orders that he not continue his postgame prayer ritual. [caption id="attachment_14320" align="alignright" width="260"] Bremerton High School (Wash.)[/cap...
Girls who play sports report 5 times higher levels of meaning and purpose compared to those who never played.
Study: Sports play critical role in promoting girls’ mental health
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A new study on mental health by the Women's Sports Foundation found gi...