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When do you play hard? When are you a good teammate? When are you locked in at practice? When do you handle adversity well?    For the bad, solid, and good players, the answer to these questions are all fairly similar…they do all these things when things are going their way, their team is winning, and it’s 75 and sunny out.   Elite players are great teammates when their team is losing.   Elite players

What Success REALLY Looks Like   You worked your tail off all winter…nice work! Just don’t expect to all of a sudden be the best player in your conference.    One of the biggest issues in player development is thinking that it will happen all of a sudden and results will be automatic. Unfortunately for all you hard workers out there, that is usually not the case.   Development really looks like this….    

If you’re really into the game then you hate losing. Pretty simple concept. However, I’m here to tell you that wins and loses may not be as important as you think, especially at the younger ages.   Why is that? Because you can win a game and not get any better. And on the flip side, you can lose a game and improve.   So despite the fact that a lot of the focus in

Congrats to everyone that made “the team”…whether it’s your Freshmen, JV, or Varsity team, I’m sure you were pumped to see your name on the list at the end of try outs.   For those of you that didn’t see their name or didn’t see it on the “right” list…well it’s time to do something about it. And that “something” doesn’t involve pouting or pointing fingers.   As the great Happy Gilmore (a character in

So I was at a family party this past weekend (not mine though so it was mostly made up of soccer players, but let’s not hold that against them) and a lively discussion started up because one of the travel coaches was giving out “report cards” to their players ranking their skills, attitude, etc. Despite it being a favorable report, this set of parents were debating not showing their son his report card so he