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How To Yell When Watching From The Sideline

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How To Yell When Watching From The Sideline

I like well-behaved parents/fans because I have been around a lot of ill-behaved ones. In nearly every youth game that I have officiated (U15 and below) there has been at least one, and usually two, fans screaming instructions to their player or entire team from the sideline. Often, it is incredibly poor advice. These are the same individuals who yell when their player is taken off the field, openly criticize the officials, and generally know next to nothing about how ...

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MAY
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Categories: Community, Coyote Select Teams, Lacrosse Wisdom

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Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

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Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

Good versus Evil. Right versus Wrong. Morality versus Immorality. Shoulder Angel versus Shoulder Devil.

All of these capture the inner struggle we all have to do the right thing. This struggle is characterized as our conscience, and we all have one. Yet, for young players their conscience, like themselves, is immature. This is not to say that young players do not have a conscience. Just that is is currently undergoing construction.

Parents and immediate family members lay the deep foundation of conscience. ...

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MAY
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Categories: Coaching, Community, Lacrosse Wisdom

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The Importance of Helmets

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Recently a young man from the local lacrosse community was playing wall ball with a friend and this young man got hit right below the ear on an errant shot.

He went into a convulsion and had to be air lifted to Emory Children’s hospital

where he was put into a coma to allow his brain to recover.  I spoke to one of his coaches today who is a good friend and he said it was a freak accident and they pray ...

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MAR
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Categories: Coaching, Community, Health, Lacrosse Wisdom

Atlanta Youth Lacrosse…Lets Get This Party Started!

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Opening Day of Lacrosse season is always one of the best days of the year.  We find each team ready to spring into action and put what they learned in practice to the test.

Each year (since 1991 – in Atlanta) I have seen the smiles and enthusiasm of our players and coaches and the wonderful way our parents react to their sons/daughters ups and downs.

Our league is built upon a fabric of Responsibility, Caring, Honesty, Service and Sportsmanship.  We adhere ...

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MAR
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Categories: Community, Girls Lacrosse, Lacrosse Wisdom

Keep It Simple

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Keep It Simple

Parsimonious is a scientific term that effectively means to phrase something as simply as possible. The longer and more convoluted a statement is the less parsimonious it becomes. Now why am I drudging out scientific nomenclature in regards to youth lacrosse? Put parsimoniously, I want coaches to stick with the basics.

In my ten years of coaching and officiating youth lacrosse I have seen a lot of varying coaching styles. Some successful, and others not so ...

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Categories: Coaching, Lacrosse Wisdom

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Focusing on Self Improvement

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Focusing on Self Improvement

There is a lot to be said for winning in sports. Without winning we have no reason for overtime, and no weight given to championships. However, winning cannot be the end-all-be-all for youth sports. The goal of coaches, parents, and players should be on self-improvement for the child; both as a player and as a person.

I found the following article during some psychology research for a paper I’m working on. I believe it hits the mark with what all coaches ...

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Categories: Coaching, Community, Lacrosse Wisdom

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How Badly Do You Want To Succeed?

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How Badly Do You Want To Succeed?

What do you want to succeed at? How badly do you want it? I stumbled across this video entitled How Bad Do You Want It? (Success). The video is a combination of a football player working hard to get faster, stronger, better with an audio track dubbed over it. The audio track comes from from motivational speaker Eric Thomas, also known as the Hip ...

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JAN
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Categories: Coaching, Community, Lacrosse Wisdom

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What is Toughness?

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What is Toughness?

Rich Bayman one of our  Youth Coaches send this to me a few days ago and it has a very strong message.  It was given to him by a local coach but it is from Jay Bilas a basketball sports announcer and former Elite level Basketball player at Duke.

I have always wondered about toughness, as there are many forms of it.  We say the word a lot and sometimes it’s ...

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Categories: Lacrosse Wisdom

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