Why Every Student-Athlete Should Get a Part-Time Job
Chris Paul pumped gas. David Johnson cleaned dorm rooms. J.J. Watt delivered pizzas. Many of the world's best athletes worked some very mundane jobs at one point or another. And [...]
The 10 Most Popular High School Sports, Ranked By ‘Healthiness’
While attending the Aspen Institute's Project Play Summit last year, I became fascinated with their Healthy Sport Index. What this index aims to do is help the public identify the [...]
3 Ways We Can Change High School Sports for the Better
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Aspen Institute’s Project Play Summit in Washington, D.C. The Aspen Institute gathers some of the best and most current information on youth [...]
5 Steps to Building Bigger Self-Belief
Mastering the mental side of sports begins with quieting that noisy inner critic we've all met. Everyone's dealt with inner critic syndrome on some level. Wildly swinging with the most [...]
Youth Sports Coaches Need to Take the Negativity out of ‘Accountability’
Every coach I’ve ever met talks about accountability at one point or another. However, many of them use it largely in negative terms: "You did something wrong, now you must [...]
What Athletes DON’T Do Matters, too
Athletes tend to have a very active mindset. What do we need to do to win? We've gotta train. We've gotta watch film. We've gotta practice the right way. We've [...]
