Sportsmanship

One of the most valuable life lessons that youth sports can teach children is that when you want to win you have to work hard; and that those who work hard will be rewarded. Showing up to practice on time, always giving your best and playing well as a team will ultimately result in success. But […]

Coaches hope to never miss an athlete doing something correctly, and the paper plate award takes that concept to a whole new level of power.

Through the tough times in Larry’s life – homelessness, pressures on the streets and loss – lacrosse has been there and led him towards better things. Larry Mackey was handed a lacrosse stick for the very first time in the seventh grade and had no idea just how big an impact that would have on […]

It is also just as important that if your team wins that celebrating is completely acceptable, but to also be a gracious winner. Sportsmanship is defined as “conduct (such as fairness, respect for one’s opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing) becoming to one participating in a sport.”  It also is a word thrown around a […]

By wrestling each other, Brody Teske and Alex Thomsen proved they weren’t concerned with records or high school legacies

Benched Crimson Tide quarterback was the epitome of class during, after national title game

There is a lot of pressure on parents these days. We want the best for our children and we don’t think twice about taking action when we see we’re able to fill a need. But are we doing enough? “When did parenting get to be so stressful?” began a recent post on the Changing the Game […]

It is important to develop strategies to handle the negative emotions

Winning. It’s what we play the games for. it’s the root of one’s competitive fire. And it’s something that is much bigger than sport- life is a competition, with people constantly trying to better than the person next to them. “Just win, baby.” “You play to win the game.” “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only […]

Many youth teams struggle to find someone who wants to play goalie. One of the main reasons is simply that youth goalies feel that practices are no fun. For the youth coaches out there who are wondering how to make practices more fun for youth lacrosse goalies when it seems like for most drills the […]