This post is a follow-on to the generic article A Guide to Your First Time Coaching Sports. This article provides specifics for first time basketball coaches getting started with their first youth team. Before reading this post, review the parent article to get proper background information. When you’re done, you’ll be ready to start your […]
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Our Undefeated Season and What We Learned
Every professional coach is striving for an undefeated season, every season. Their jobs are dependent upon winning games so it makes sense that their goal would be a perfect record. The possibility of an undefeated season also entices plenty of youth coaches, even Balanced Coaches. I recently completed my first undefeated season in almost 20 […]
A Guide to Your First Time Coaching Soccer
This post is a follow-on to the generic article A Guide to Your First Time Coaching Sports. This article provides specifics for new soccer coaches just getting started with their first soccer team. Before reading this post, review the parent article to get proper background information. When you’re done, you’ll be ready to start your […]
A Guide to Your First Time Coaching Sports
So you signed up to coach a youth sports team. Most likely your own child is on the team and you are an unpaid volunteer. This is your first time coaching but that doesn’t mean you can’t be awesome at it! Follow these basics and you’ll be well on your way to to becoming a […]
Tournament Teams vs League Teams
There seems to be debate among the youth sports community on the best format of play for a team. The conventional wisdom of today is that to be a “good” team, you must focus on playing tournaments. The flip-side of this argument is having a team that plays in a regularly scheduled league. Using today’s […]