#220 Surviving and Thriving During Tryout Season with John and Jerry
Sunday, 16 May 2021
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher This past week, John has been assisting his local competitive soccer club with their annual tryouts, and like most years, tryouts are a trying time! How do you balance the “as many as possible, as long as possible” philosophy with facility shortages, lack of trained coaches, and the fact that competitive
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Surviving Tryout Season
Monday, 12 May 2014
Spring and early summer usually bring about an annual rite of passage in youth sports: TRYOUTS! They can be a time of great joy, or tremendous disappointment. Tryouts can be a time filled with pressure, stress, politics and many of the other unsavory aspects of youth sports. They can also be a time where a
Our Biggest Mistake: Talent Selection Instead of Talent Identification
Monday, 09 December 2013
Many youth sports coaches claim to be great talent identifiers, and point to the results of their 11 year all star team as proof. Yet they are not talent identifiers. They are talent selectors. The difference could not be more striking, or more damaging to our country’s future talent pool in many sports. Talent selection
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