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    The Coach's Guide to Real Winning: Teaching Life Lessons to Kids in Sports
    The Coach's Guide to Real Winning: Teaching Life Lessons to Kids in Sports
    The Coach's Guide to Real Winning: Teaching Life Lessons to Kids in Sports
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    The Coach's Guide to Real Winning: Teaching Life Lessons to Kids in Sports

    By John L. Shannon

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    Forty million children scramble across the playing fields of America each year. They are coached by 4 million youth coaches. Coaches are in a unique position to teach kids lessons that will serve them throughout life. This book encourages coaches to see themselves as teachers and realize the impact they have on children. Also addressed is the increasing number of coaches exhibiting unhealthy levels of intensity in youth sports.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781940495576
    The Coach's Guide to Real Winning: Teaching Life Lessons to Kids in Sports

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      The Coach's Guide to Real Winning - John L. Shannon

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      Part I

      What Winning Coaches Know

      Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

      —John W. Whitehead

      It’s about the kids!

      A winning coach becomes involved in coaching because he or she loves to watch kids play and grow. He or she measures the success of a season not by the number of games won, but by the number of kids won—those who are learning lessons that will make them winners in life. A winning coach knows that to help build winning kids, he or she must first win over every child on the team. Enthusiastically, a winning coach invests one of his or her most precious gifts, time, in our most precious asset, our children.

      The child comes first, then the athlete, and then the sport.

      A number of years ago, one of the parents of a boy on my hockey team asked me what my coaching priorities were. I had not given much thought to a question like this, so I didn’t really have a prepared thought. But I thought for a moment and told her that my priorities were first, to assist in the development of a young person; second, to assist in the development of a young athlete; and lastly, to assist in the development of a young hockey player.

      When I got home that evening, I wrote down a priority list on a piece of paper and put it in a new folder labeled Coaching. Through the years, I have added many thoughts to this folder. And each year I review it for my own benefit. In this whole collection of ideas, no one thought stands out to me more profoundly than my list of coaching priorities.

      As coaches, we must remember this very simple priority: We are dealing with children first and foremost, then athletes and players. When we don’t recall this fact, we risk ignoring the primary needs of the vast majority of the children with whom we work, children so urgently in need of our care and support.

      Assist in the development of a young person.

      Most of the children we work with in a season will not play the sport(s) we coach in high school, let alone in college or beyond. They will not be the stars of their teams. They will be kids who play for a few years and then move on to other interests. What, then, should be our first priority? Simple. Our first priority should be to assist in their development as people, with an emphasis on teaching them life lessons.

      As coaches, we need to give children on our teams the opportunity to experience situations that enhance their character and their future. The truly important ingredients for success in life don’t have anything to do with goals, strikeouts, touchdowns, or free throws. They have everything to do with integrity, hard work, perseverance, teamwork, and the ability to deal with both adversity and success.

      Not every kid we work with will be a great athlete, but our goal should be to assist every kid we work with to be a great person, one who makes great personal decisions.

      If every youth athletic coach measures his or her success based on this criterion, each can strive for a perfect season.

      Assist in the development of a physically fit youth.

      Considering the increasingly sedentary lifestyle that many live and the health risks associated with it, we need to do everything possible to encourage children to make a lifelong commitment to good health. All of us can encourage children to live a healthier lifestyle by modeling proper exercise, diet, and behavior. As coaches, we can give children a head start by helping build their physical assets of coordination, strength, balance, and conditioning. We need to be creative and structure our practices to build upon the basic building blocks of athleticism.

      What we don’t need to do is turn off a kid to a sport because he or she may be overweight or less gifted athletically. Too many times, these children are left behind by coaches because they may be less able to do what other children do, and therefore, may actually detract from the team’s ability to win. These kids are the most important ones to keep actively involved. The positive experience a coach can give these less athletically gifted children may change their lives forever, for the

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