Coaching

Sports Play is the Best Way to Improve Play Quality

Fred Rogers once said that “play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning…they have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play”. This basic truth applies to all aspects of child development …

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Sports Field Freakanomics – How Digital Tools Can Better Support & Grow Youth Sports

In the Beginning  It was late October, 2008 in Oakland, California, -the Oakland Athletics just finished another frustrating season with a strong starting pitching staff and a not so great offense to support them and my four year old daughter Mia and I were watching the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays in the World …

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Club soccer puts the sport out of reach for many kids

Originally published on NPR at this link Youth soccer coach Pierre Hedji co-founded the club DCXI to give kids in Washington, D.C., a chance to learn the game, develop their skills and compete, just as he did when he was a kid growing up in Benin. “It was street soccer,” he remembers, “you were using …

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