Youth Sports Done Right
We unpack current trends in youth sports as well as best practices for administering programs. Content is offered to help administrators, coaches, officials and parents run sports efficiently and get the most from their time and effort. Educational and entertaining, we offer ideas and stories that will help you learn and maximize the bang for your buck!
Episodes
22 episodes
ACL Injury Prevention
65% of Athletes who suffer a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament in the knee (ACL)never return to the level they were at prior to the injury. If you could reduce your athlete's likelihood of ACL injury by as much as 85%, would you like to know how?...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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18:43
Parent Meetings
Mark Arjes of Youth First shares his thoughts on setting up the season for success by having a pre-season parent and player meeting. We lay out some ideas for preparing for the meeting and how to give the parents some resources to have their mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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28:08
Swimming Champion
Lynn Newton was a seven time state champion swimmer and an All-American at the University of Minnesota, as well as being ranked in the world; not too shabby eh? Rather than rest on her laurels, she went on to become an amazing high school...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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38:48
Lea B. Olsen
Sports broadcaster and former Minnesota Gopher Basketball player Lea B. Olsen shares wisdom she has earned playing, coaching and broadcasting basketball from youth to professional. Lea shares a wonderful perspective on youth sports and the less...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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45:16
Third Generation
Coach Matt McDonald is a 3rd generation coach, it's in his family bloodlines and he's really good at building young men into great people and baseball players. Coach shares his story and talks about the importance of building team cult...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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35:26
Building intrinsic motivation
I love battling with my kid to do the things they must do to get better is something nobody has ever said. If you can develop the motivation and desire to chase your own dreams it will always be easier to do the tough things that need to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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18:38
A player's view of it all
Every want to know how what we say as parents and coaches has been received? How do the kids see what we are teaching? How do our players and kids want to be coached?In this episode, I sit down with a young man I have coached and who is...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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23:02
Keith Bateman Augsburg Head Coach
Our conversation here is LOADED with great examples of parenting and coaching as well as things to smile at. Coach Bateman shares his story and the influences he has had on his life as well as how he has shared these with his son and the young ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:01:03
Treasure these days
Watching our children compete can give us butterflies and just plain stress us out. We talk in this episode about some of the things we have learned...the hard way in some cases about how to prepare ourselves and our child for a more enjoyable ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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22:01
Hamline AD- Jason Verdugo
Perspective from someone who has experience at every level of sports. Jason is the athletic director for Hamline University in St. Paul Minnesota. He Pitched at ASU and as a professional baseball player as well with the San Francisco Giants. Ja...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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39:30
Quick Hit- Opening the optimal performance coaching toolbox
We breakout some specific tools for developing the mindful performance athlete. Journaling, goal setting, as well as several other tools you can implement to create the optimal performance environment.We partner in this episode with Tra...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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20:07
Division 1 to Youth
In this episode Coach Frost of the University of Minnesota Women's Hockey shares what he has learned as a coach of a Division 1 program while simultaneously coaching his son's through youth sports, He offers some excellent thoughts on how you h...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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53:44
WANTED-Optimal performance
Does it matter what you say as a coach or leader? Does our approach to coaching affect how hard someone will work to get better? What can we do to create an optimum performance environment?In this episode we offer a quick hit to begin t...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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14:54
How much is too much?
Our first listener question:How do we teach mechanics without talking too much and losing their attention? We discuss this topic between two coaches and thrown out some thoughts for you to chew on. One of the most challengi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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21:24
Mindset for Youth
Control the controllable, embrace failure, processed based; these are all catch phrases you hear in sports and performance psychology. Where do these come from? Carol Dweck, Stanford University, has drawn attention to the benefits of the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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21:40
Building intrinsic motivation
I sit down with Will Short, coach of Simley High School Wrestling, and we discuss what is working with today's athletes and how it has changed since he was competing. Will discusses how he came to understand that building love for the sport cre...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:09:24
Protecting youth throwers
Erika Sandell-Savor joins us this episode to share some thoughts on how to protect your players and create a plan to prevent damage to their arms. By working on proper mechanics, you not only protect the health of their arm, but increase their ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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45:31
Get Your Mindrite
I have a conversation with Travis Rogers of Mindrite Training (www.mindritetraining.com) regarding performance psychology in youth sports, as well as how coaches and parents can improve the experience everyone has with youth sports while improv...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:13:18
Wisdom Hard Earned
Eavesdropping on a conversation I had with Coach Bambenek (we both were aware) about our experiences with coaching youth baseball. We talk about how our perspective has changed over the years and how we are getting better results, both developi...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:23
State of baseball: Clubs?
In this episode, I sit down with Brian Bambenek, owner of Great Lakes Baseball Academy in Woodbury, Minnesota. We talk about Brian's background in education and take a look at the dynamics of youth baseball from a club owner's perspective. Bria...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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47:40