Round Table Talk

Coaches, what are your main goals for your offseason training program this year? Be sure to tell us your level.

I have seen players fear making mistakes. They oftentimes want so badly to either please coaches or parents, so they focus so much on being perfect that they forget to play the game. When mistakes occur, they see it as failure, and the domino effect begins! I remember years back, in the middle of a mental clinic with my team, I asked the question, "Have you ever had a family member to make you feel less than where you wanted to be?" My ENTIRE team raised their hands, even my daughter. As I dug in, I learned that even after great wins where every player felt valued as they had played their role well, that feeling was immediately annihilated as they were excitedly greeted by the simple, "harm-unintended" question as they walk into their home's door, "How many points did you have?" Well, the answer to that particular question …

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