By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeckDear Coach,Thank you for coaching my team this season. I hope you can pick me again next year, because I had so much fun. I thought I’d tell you some of my favorite things about...
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Five Youth Coaching Sins
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck There are many mistakes – big and small – made by youth sports coaches everywhere. But here are five in particular that seem to be some of the most common traps we fall into.1)...
Critcizing Teammates
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck As a parent, if one of your children was constantly yelling at and demeaning a sibling every time they made a mistake, wouldn’t you put a stop to it? Why then do coaches allow...
What is Fun?
If there is one concept that almost all youth coaches and players agree upon about their sport is that it should be fun. At the end of the day, probably the best measure of whether a practice was successful is...
Any Excuse to Win
I recently received an email from a parent who claimed that something I’d written in our blog had given ammunition to her son’s coaches who not giving enough playing time to very young players. She wrote:I know your blog is...