Issues & Advice

Kick your feet up. Do nothing. It’s perfectly okay to not be busy every waking moment of your life. “I can’t, my kid has practice.” Sound familiar? As sports parents, we spend hours out of our week taking our young athletes to and from practices, games and other team functions. So many hours that sometimes […]

If you have talent, just be who you are, be yourself, and don’t over throw. Most of us think that we already know what does mental toughness is, but the truth is we still needs to develop and learn. It’s not about how young or how old you are, the real deal is have you develop your mental […]

Good putting is a lot more mental than physical. Not a lot can go wrong with your stroke on a six-footer—it’s a fairly short and quiet motion. A six-footer is by no means a gimme, but it’s still short enough that it stings when it doesn’t go in. To make more of these, start by locking […]

I probably could have called it a day right then and there and just cut my losses. It’s not like I had a spare pair of cleats in my gym bag. To Every Guy Who Went Undrafted This Weekend, I never got invited to the NFL combine. I had some decent stats at Hofstra, but […]

As much as soccer has exploded within the last decade, it is hard to believe that not only are there very few youth soccer clubs with all-girl players Former U.S. Women’s National Team player, World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist, Lori Chalupny, has joined forces with the head coach of Fire and Ice Soccer Club, […]

Make the players around you better. You do this by doing all of the earlier key points and encouraging your teammates There are different types of leaders but I believe the best know how to lead by example, communicate well and when they give you a compliment you feel taller and stronger. In this OSA […]

“We just wanted to figure out a way for her to get around all the bases and give her a chance to have fun, get out there, swing it,” he said. Her grin is the first thing most people notice about Reese Ramirez. “When I met her, she was smiling ear to ear,” Rudy Mendoza, Reese’s […]

As a young child, on no other place than the soccer fields did I feel content and comfortable with my athletic body and ferocious desire to compete One of the slides I often use in presentations to soccer coaches, parents and club directors depicts the various issues/problems/inefficiencies with our youth soccer landscape.  We discuss the […]