Sports Parent Highlights

      We  sports parents are always on the lookout for good resources to learn more about our youth athletes sport and how to be the best sports parent we can be. There is so much to take in and often times we can simply wonder if we are doing it right?  Is my youth athlete [...]

Time To Put The Medals Away

Smaller 3  gold medals 100m,200m and Long Jump at top AAU Pacific Southwest Championships Lower Medals Are to the (left) 100m Gold (middle) Copper 7th place Long Jump  (right)200m Gold (Not showm 7th place finisher USATF 100m Copper)   ********************************   Lauren and and I  are leaving from a girls get away in Palms Springs California today. Palms Springs [...]

Training Through Fun

Little Kids and Training through Fun   Kids never stay still. Everybody knows that! What better way to train them than to take advantage of this? Children are always running around and have so much excess energy that you can’t help but wonder where they’re getting all of it from. It’s easy to nudge them [...]

Should A Parent Begin To Sports Specify His/ Or Her Child Before 12-13 ?

Should a parent begin to sports specify his/ or her child before 12-13, if the child is showing great abilty and willingness? This is the question I asked, via a forum for Youth track over a year ago.To date there has been over 60 responses and I wanted to share a few of the responses with [...]

Great Olympic Moments

  “The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.” Billy [...]