What it takes to be a good coach... 1. You Have to Like Young PeopleThis has to be number one: you have to like being with kids. Your primary reason for coaching should be to watch young people grow, mature and develop. Sure, everybody likes to win, but if winning is...
Category: Coaching
Good Teams, Good Coaches
Know this here and now . . . any one can be a good, competent and, consequently, a winning youth baseball coach. But this is the last comment about winning that you will read in this article . . . simply because winning is a result of being a good, competent coach. If...
How to Handle Parents
No one ever says "Gee, Margo, little Bubba is old enough, let's get him on a baseball team, make complete jerks of ourselves and drive some coach crazy!".but it happens. The wise coach understands that he is not just teaching boys to play baseball, but is shepherding...
Approaching Your Child’s Coach
Coaching Youth Sports has received numerous e-mail notes from parents asking how to approach their child's coach or otherwise deal with a problem involving the coach. Sometimes the problem is just with the one child and the coach, other times it involves several...
Plan To Succeed
If It's So Easy To Coach Youth Baseball & Do It Well Why Do We See So Many Poor Coaches? In my years as a player and as a coach, I can tell you that my opinion of poor coaching can be simply boiled down to: A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE A LACK OF PREPARATION! A LACK OF...
Coaching Gaffes
I have considered writing a book "Every Word Out of a Youth League Coach's Mouth at Games Is Wrong." Catchy title, huh? It's a little overstated but I think you will recognize some of these. Here are some of the worst examples, in no particular order. From the...
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