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10 Things I Know About Being an Elite Athlete

Long Term Athlete Development, Mental Toughness, Motivation, OlympicsBy John O'SullivanMarch 20, 2025Leave a comment

(This blog is contributed by our great friend Mackenzie (St. Onge) Morse. Mac was a collegiate hockey player and rugby player at Dartmouth, our intern at our first Way of Champions Coaching Conference, and then spent 4 years with the US Ski and Snowboard Team in an athlete support role. Today she is the Athlete…

How Adults Take the Joy Out of Sports (And How We Can Fix It)

Coaching, Long Term Athlete Development, Problems in Youth SportsBy adminJanuary 3, 2023Leave a comment

We have all seen it. I was recently watching a 12-year-old boys soccer game, and I saw it again. Like a deer in the headlights, the left defender on the blue team was seemingly stranded on the field and unsure where to go or what to do. He turned to one sideline, where his coach…

In Youth Sports, there is no LTAD without STAE

Long Term Athlete Development, MotivationBy adminApril 24, 2018Leave a comment

“Imagine youth sports was a room. On one end of the room, there is a door where everyone enters. At the other end, there is another door where everyone leaves.” So began a long conversation I had with Peter Hugg, the Head of Football (soccer) for Football New South Wales in Australia, on my recent…

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