Coaches
Explore our resources, tips, and strategies to help you become a better lacrosse coach. From drills and game plans to leadership skills, find everything you need to inspire your team and elevate your performance on and off the field.
A Letter to My Younger Coach Self
If I could sit down with my younger coaching self, I would tell him that coaching is about far more than winning lacrosse games. These are ten lessons about learning, leadership…
When High Standards Feel Like Too Much
One of the hardest things for a coach to understand is why an athlete can hear the exact same correction that another athlete receives — and respond to it completely differently.
You Can Build the Rink. They Have to Want to Stay on the Ice.
There is a story about Wayne Gretzky and his father, Walter Gretzky, that I think every youth sports parent and coach should understand.
Youth Sports Starts and Ends With the Adults
“The more money parents pay, the more invested they feel, the crazier they get, the more likely their kids burn out.”
7 Things That Tell Me Your Athlete Has a Good Coach — And Winning Isn’t One of Them
There is a tendency in youth sports to measure a coach by the scoreboard.
Why I Coach: A Purpose Greater Than Myself
There has been a question underneath all the years of coaching that I don’t think I fully understood when I first started:
The Men Who Never Knew They Were Coaching Me
There are certain dates that become part of your life story, whether you want them to or not.
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