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Participation in sports has inherent risks. As a coach, priority number ONE is to minimize these risks of injury and increase the safety of the athletes we serve. The Featured Articles below address this responsibility.
Gib Darden
Coaching & Sports Section Editor
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Source:
American Sport Education Program (ASEP)
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About seven million of the 22 million kids who played youth sports last year will not participate again this year. |
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Less than half of youth sport coaches return for more than one season. |
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There are two million injuries to young athletes annually. Half of these are preventable. |
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Many parents cite poor coaching and administration as primary reasons for dissatisfaction with their children's sport programs.
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Youth sport coaches who want to teach children about team concepts should have their athletes visit this website by The Locker Room. It addresses various Team Problems such as the ball hog, the dirty player, working with your coach, etc. Might help coaches and parents get their message across! Lots of coaches ask about how to deal with Anxiety in performance. Athletic Insight, an online journal for Sport Psychology, offers an issue devoted to this topic. It's content might be "heavy" but it offers some good strategies supported by research.
Another concern of many coaches of female athletes is when they suspect an Eating Disorder. This short paper by the Women's Sports Foundation provides a good start for interested coaches.
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Coaches are Scientists.
By nature, coaches analyze and predict.
Continuing my last editorial section, below are specific examples of scientific analyses in sport performance.
For the tennis coach, here is information on sport science applied to Tennis.
For the Basketball coach, check this interesting information out about shooting free throws.
Interesting evidence in this paper suggests you can train anticipation (Mental
Quickness) like you can physical quickness.
Want Team Cohesion? According to this study, it may depend on the
behaviors of the coach.
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Please let your colleagues know about PELINKS4U, and remember you can catch up on a year's worth of news in our Archives.
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If you have ideas, comments, letters to share, or questions about particular topics, please email one of the following Interdisciplinary PE Section Editors:
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Character may be manifested
in the great moments, but it is
made in the small ones.
~ Phillip Brooks ~
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Need Help With Your Speeches or Interviews?
Here is a neat site for coaches in the area of communications
and media. Strategies are provided for giving better speeches,
do's and don'ts of interviews, image building and other useful
information.
Other Self-Help Opportunities
Those coaches looking for motivational pictures to post on web sites, presentations, etc. may want to visit these sites for
Olympic images and other sporting
images. To search for specific sport related images, visit Lycos.
Sports Medicine
is a good site for
understanding the nature of sport injuries, preventing them and treating
them. The University of Alabama-Birmingham clinic offers an
education site, complete with descriptions,
terminology, and anatomical pictures of common sport injuries. Use
the general links on the right side of their site.
A great collection of coaching and instructional books for coaches of
all levels and all sports can be found at Human
Kinetics.
A quality free online magazine, High
Score Magazine for youth sports is available.
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Ask Coach Mike promises to be
good site for parents, coaches, and players. This appears to be a
"learning" site with parent, coach and player workbooks, Q&
A sections, and customized instructional manuals. It seems different
(positively) than many sites out there who promote products for profit.
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