Mayhem in Massachusetts Between Youth Football Coach, Dad (10/20/09)
Permanent Link| | The latest black eye for youth sports includes a black eye for a youth football dad outside Boston -- allegedly at the hand of his son's coach. Click here to see WBZ-TV's coverage, which includes links back to PCA's "Free Tips and Tools" for coaches and parents. Too bad the dad and coach in question didn't read and heed our tips! Click on the Comments link below to share your thoughts. |
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Testimonial From a Coach (10/1/09)
Permanent Link| | PCA frequently receives heartfelt testimonials from coaches and parents we reach through our live group workshops and online courses. Here is the latest and greatest, received by e-mail last week: Hello, My name is Michael McPeck. I am a Little League Girls Fastpitch Softball coach in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. This year our team went undefeated in the regular season, 15-0. And our 9/10 All-Stars placed second in our district, losing a tough 4-0 game against a very talented pitcher. This past Monday night was our league's Awards Dinner. I was totally surprised and thrilled to receive the last award of the evening, The Coach of the Year award. Besides giving much credit to the players and their parents, I must also credit PCA. This was the first year that I took the course and became certified. From our first player/parent/coach meeting in April I have followed, and more importantly, believed in the Double-Goal approach. I am convinced that our success was based on the application of such philosophies as Honoring the Game, Effort Goals, etc. It is these concepts that have built the talent level of our team and allowed our success. I was most proud of our team during and after our loss in the district finals. They truly played with focus and gave 100% effort. After the game they held their heads high and were celebrating the fact that they played so well. They never lamented their loss. In fact, if you saw them interacting with the other team after the game you would think we won. I guess they listened to their coaches, at least a little bit. For that I am most proud.
Thank you PCA for a wonderful program. I know it works and will encourage my fellow coaches to join the PCA "team".
Mike To leave your own testimonial for Positive Coaching Alliance, click on the comments link below. |
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Congratulations to Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Winners (9/19/09)
Permanent Link| | Congratulations to these 10 winners of Positive Coaching Alliance's Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarships at the 2nd Annual Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Awards Ceremony, sponsored by Deloitte. Andrea Davis, Foothill High School, Pleasanton Dave Douglass III, St. Elizabeth High School, Oakland Nicholas Gibson, Gilroy High School, Gilroy Emi Hashizume, Aragon High School, San Mateo Taylor Johnson, Presentation High School, San Jose Michael Kimble, Acalanes High School, Lafayette Nicholas Kwan, Lowell High School, San Francisco Cydni Matsuoka, John F. Kennedy High School, Sacramento Chris Winn, Jesuit High School, Sacramento Eve Zelinger, Castilleja School, Palo Alto These 10 student-athletes are high-school seniors, who best exemplify PCA’s model of the Triple-Impact Competitor: - Personal Mastery -- Making oneself better
- Leadership -- Making one’s teammates better
- Honoring the Game -- Making the game better.
Each winner received a $2,000 scholarship for use toward post-secondary education at today’s award ceremony at Stanford University, featuring Master of Ceremonies Ted Robinson -- famed broadcaster of the San Francisco 49ers, Wimbledon, the Olympics and Major League Baseball -- and a special presentation by Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach Keith Smart. PCA thanks Deloitte and the Thrive Foundation for Youth for supporting this program and thanks the student-athletes themsleves for contributing to a positive, character-building youth sports environment. Feel free to leave messages for these athletes by clicking the Comments link below. For more highlights from the ceremony, click here. |
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Serena Williams Raises Racket (9/14/09)
Permanent Link| | Serena Williams, called for a foot fault in her U.S. Open match Saturday night, really stepped out of bounds. Arguing with the line judge, Williams lost her cool, dropped some F-bombs and threats, and was penalized a point, which happened to be match point. Although Williams already was near defeat, she has survived match points before, so her outburst conceivably cost her a Grand Slam title. The laughable $10,500 fine she was assessed probably will bother Williams less than the knowledge that her lapse cost her some of her legacy. Coaches and parents who use this incident as a teachable moment in conversation with youth athletes can point out that temper tantrums can cost you whatever is dearest, in this case, game, set, match, money and more. |
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Oregon's LeGarrette Blount Strikes a Blow Against Sportsmanship (9/4/09)
Permanent Link| | Last night's first nationally televised game of the 2009 major college football season opened promisingly with footage of a new pre-game handshake ritual meant to promote sportsmanship. It ended with University of Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount being dragged by police from Boise State University's famous blue-turf field after firing a fist to the face of Boise State defender Bryan Hout. Before, during and after the game, everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Still reeling from last year's hard-fought game between the Ducks and Broncos, which featured many questionable hits, Blount in the lead-up to yesterday's game voiced to Sports Illustrated some foul-mouthed pre-game smack talk. The staged handshake last night lived down to many pundits' predictions that the show of sportsmanship would fade into the testosterone-fueled chest-thumping typical of big-time college football pre-game rituals. During the game, we saw more questionable hits, and after the game, a 19-8 Boise State win, Hout taunted Blount and slapped him on the shoulder pad. Just as Boise State Head Coach Chris Petersen rushed in to give Hout a lesson in Honoring the Game, Blount landed his punch. The one silver lining: Oregon almost immediately suspended Blount for the remainder of the season, yet will keep him in school and offer counseling. Ideally, this sends a message to the rest of the country, from college football on down to all levels of youth sports, that dishonoring the game is intolerable. And hopefully, pre-game handshake rituals in the future are more sincere than staged. |
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