Posts in category Parenting the Athlete
Youth Sports: What Happens When Money...
How much is your kid worth? Surely, there’s no answer to that question; they’re priceless. But what I am seeing in youth sports clubs lately makes me think that priceless is getting more expensive. We’re paying for them to do everything and at younger ages. The gear, the fees, the uniforms, and the professional trainers.
A f [...]
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 [...]
How to Get Girls to Communicate on th...
Do the girls you coach clam up on the field? Mine talk all the time…on the sidelines
Girls are happy to chat before they go in.
and during warmups.
More chatting than soccer pre-game
But on the field? It’s like pulling teeth.
In a newsletter I read, New Moon Girls, fifteen year old Amanda observed that girls were happy to pitch i [...]
Might Defying Gravity Really Be Wicke...
I took my 14 year old daughter to see Wicked at the Kennedy Center this week. What an incredible show. What an incredible message. Young people everywhere are walking away with the courage to take on the world. Tapping into the ‘something that’s changed within them.’ Why not throw off what holds them down? Defy gravity and [...]
Dear USA Women’s National Socce...
What an amazing run!
What an amazing final!
What a heart-breaker!
To a society that lives to compete, I say, “What competitors!”
To a culture that prints t-shirts that say, “2nd place is the first loser,” I say, “No Way!”
I loved watching and following it all. Hearing your heart, your team solidarity, your belief in yourselves and your train [...]
Fairfax Area Basketball Coaches Getti...
Kudos to Fairfax High School girl’s basketball coach Marcus Konde for taking the initiative to create the rising freshman summer basketball league. He was thinking outside the box to get around the restrictions on coaching out of season. He gets to see the up-and-coming talent and get his foot in the “recruiting” door that h [...]
Active Women:Poetry in Motion
There’s nothing more beautiful than a body in motion. Call me sexist or ageist, but especially if that body is young, fit and female.
I just loved opening Tuesday’s Washington Post to not 1, not 2, but 3 large, full-color photos of young women in motion.
Front page: 2 sisters running freely through the rough at Congressional Coun [...]
Fitness Is Fun
XC (Cross Country) girls get tougher.
Have you ever had a coach who makes you run laps when he’s mad at you?
“You stink!
Go run a lap!”
These girls laugh at that coach. They love to run. They do it for fun, and for fitness. They run with their friends. They run for glory. They run to clear their minds. They run to get strong. They drive aro [...]
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