Does this look like your athlete's diet?
Are you always looking for quick, healthy ways to fuel your fast-moving athlete? Me too. Registered dietitian, Judy Caplan, has three great meal suggestions in the February issue of WashingtonFAMILY.com.
Meal 1: Stir fry chicken and veggies with toasted sesame oil. Add cooked rice. Serve with a rom [...]
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Quick Meals for Hungry Athletes
Does this look like your athlete's diet?
Are you always looking for quick, healthy ways to fuel your fast-moving athlete? Me too. Registered dietitian, Judy Caplan, has three great meal suggestions in the February issue of WashingtonFAMILY.com.
Meal 1: Stir fry chicken and veggies with toasted sesame oil. Add cooked rice. Serve with a rom [...]
Good Coaches Make Youth Sports Health...
“Youth sports is out of control! We need to go back to the good ole days when everyone played for fun in their neighborhoods!“
Look familiar? Even the referee doesn't know what to do with this!
The old days were good, but they’re gone. Now, issues of safety, distance, parental work schedules, and availability of playing [...]
Work and Recovery are Essential to Hi...
Stretching and chatting build team especially for girls
Recovery. Every athlete needs it. Suzy Germain says it’s missing from her son’s topnotch team and that’s taking a toll.
Wayne Goldsmith, in his January 4th blog post, has a great mnemonic to help us think about how recovery – that is, time off from sport-specific [...]
Suzy Germain Says We Need to Give Kid...
Here’s a riddle:
What do you call something you do almost every day, all week, year round? … work, right?
What do we call it when our kids do it? … sports. Is anyone laughing?
Neither are our kids. They’re paying the price in exhaustion, stress, injury, and burnout. The scenario sounds very much like the popular docume [...]
Youth Sports: What Happens When Money...
Bishop’s Titans: Girls Soccer C...
The CYA Titans, U18 Girls: Proud of what they've accomplished together
Lisa Bishop started coaching the CYA Titans when they were pint-sized and grew them into the girls who graduated high school this fall. So how do you say goodbye to girls who have been family for nearly a decade? You take them on a service trip to Costa Rica where they [...]
Team Tie-dye Bonds Girls into a Winni...
The first four girls tied and dyed, but have to wait 24 hours to see how it'll look.
A dozen girls from the CSC Inferno were tie-dying t-shirts in my driveway last weekend.
This weekend, they recorded their sixth win in as many games. They’re undefeated in the division of the Old Dominion Soccer League.
Now, I’m not taking cre [...]
Coaching Well: Saturday Only Travel S...
My friend and fellow coach Kimo Kaloi has formed a new U9 travel Soccer team with Chantilly Youth Association in Chantilly Virginia.
CYA Blaze banner, proudly flying their own direction
They’re called the CYA Purple Blaze and they play on Saturdays. Only Saturdays. He petitioned the club and then submitted a request with the Old Dominio [...]


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