Stop approaching your sport as a spectator! Each person involved has their own role: players play, coaches coach, administrators administrate, referees ref, parents parent, etc. Know your role – You are a player, an athlete, a participant. This means you must think like a participant, not as a coach, not as an administrator,…
1. Verbally & Nonverbally communicate you believe in them. Great parents believe in their kids and communicate it regularly. You can TELL them and SHOW them that you believe they can do anything. 2. Verbally & Nonverbally communicate that you accept them, love them, & are proud of them NO MATTER WHAT. Let them know…
Basketball is a team sport, you are one player amongst many other players. These players are your TEAMMATES, FRIENDS, & FAMILY. Each player, including yourself, are responsible for both the integrity and consequences of his/her own actions. If you do not show characteristics of integrity and do not take responsibility of your actions, you are…
There are many roles each player has on the court. The point guards (the 1) are in charge of starting each play and making sure everyone is on the same page, mentally and physically. They make sure all their teammates are organized before calling out a play. They also have to analyze how the opponents…
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend – Proverbs 27:17 Wrestling is a dichotomy. On one hand, it is an individual sport. This individuality iswhat draws many people to wrestling. Unlike sports such as basketball, football, orbaseball, the errors of a teammate cannot cause you to lose a match, nor can theoutstanding…
By Jimmy KaishianNCAA AA wrestler Collegiate Coach9/21/2018 After emphasizing in an interview that failure doesn’t exist Kobe Bryant was asked if he ended his career without an NBA championship, would he consider it a failure. His response was, in my unbiased opinion, awesome… In…