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You Get What You Pay For
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck I received two emails in the same week that were related. The first was from a parent who was seeking advice on how to handle her daughter’s first-ever team sport experience in which the...
Coach Development
By Dave Simeone Player DevelopmentA remarkable amount of time now goes into structured programming. The reasons for this vary. There’s the issue of insufficient free play that turns into structured play time. This moreover eliminates younger kids playing with older,...
“Framing” Your Child’s Play
By Jeffrey Rhoads Every child wants to be successful. As a parent, you obviously want your child to have fun and succeed in youth sports. A barrier to this outcome, however, is that most participation-based youth sports programs (and many...
Don’t Be a Slave to Stats!
By Nate Barnett Baseball is possibly the most statistical game on the planet. Everything a player does is tracked and evaluated based upon some series of stats. While extremely helpful in many scenarios, statistics have a way of eating away...