Here at Changing the Game Project, every week we get a call or email that says “remember that article you wrote about…? We want to use it in our newsletter and we can’t find it. What was it called?” Well, after four years of publishing thousands of words a month, we have realized that we sometimes cannot even find the articles we are looking for. Therefore, we developed a comprehensive resource guide as a way for you (and to be honest, us!) to easily find the articles you need to save you time and energy and keep you doing what you do best – coaching, parenting, playing sports, or running your organization. Below you will find links to the top 5 articles in each category so you can get started, as well as share this page with the coaches, parents and youth sports organizations in your life. Also, you can grab the entire booklet of every article we have ever published here (it’s only 4 pages, just title links)
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How to Use The Guide: The guide is organized into five sections: Parents, Coaches, Athletes, and Youth Sports Organizations/Schools/Clubs and Book Recommendations. Obviously, some of the articles pertain to multiple categories, so feel free to peruse each category for headlines that interest you. As new articles come out we will update to keep it as current as possible.
Our hope is you will use this guide as a means to share a better experience with your friends and colleagues and continue to help us spread the resources for Changing the Game Project. If you are a Coach, link to helpful articles in your emails to parents or athletes. Parents, share articles about specialization, the ride home, and why kids quit with your friends. Send your athlete an inspiring article. Clubs, you can share an article or two to prompt discussion prior to a board meeting or AGM. You could create a series of articles sent, add it to your website, or create study tracks that are required as continuing education. The information is all here in a categorized and hyperlinked format. Feel free to get creative with how you use it, and let us know what you do and how it is working.
Finally, while most of these articles have been written by John O’Sullivan, we have received some outstanding guest contributions over the years, and we want to thank writers such as James Leath, Reed Maltbie, and others for sharing their work with us.
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Good luck!
Top 5 Articles for Parents
The Race to Nowhere in Youth Sports
How Adults Take the Joy out of Sports (And How We Can Fix It)
Top 5 Articles for Coaches
Are Great Coaches Becoming an Endangered Species?
The Adultification of Youth Sports
The Missing Ingredient in Talent Development
Our Biggest Mistake Talent Selection Instead of Talent Identification
Youth Sports Coaching: Not a Job but a Calling
Top 5 Articles for Athletes
The One Quality Great Teammates Have in Common
The Difference Between Winning and Losing
Dear Potential Recruit: Your Talent Only Gets You So Far
Life Lessons from my “Old School” Sports Dad
Top 5 Articles for Administrators/Organizations/Clubs/Governing Bodies
Changing the Game in Youth Sports
Raising the Bar in Youth Sports
The Accountability Problem in Youth Sports
Is Your Child’s Youth Sports Experience Transactional or Transformational?
Recommended Reading
Our 2013 Books of the Year
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