How To Be A Winning Parent

If you want your child to come out of her youth sports experience a winner, (feeling good about herself and having a healthy attitude towards sports) then she needs your help! You are a vital and important part of the coach-athlete-parent team. If you do your job correctly and play YOUR position well, then your child will learn the sport faster, perform better, really have fun and have her self-esteem enhanced as a result. Her sport experience serves as a Positive model for her to follow as she approaches other challenges and obstacles throughout life. If you "drop the ball" or run the wrong way with it your child will stop learning, experience performance difficulties and blocks, and begin to really hate the sport. And that's the GOOD news! Further, your relationship with her probably will suffer significantly. AS a result, she will come out of this experience burdened with feelings of failure, inadequacy, and low self-esteem, feelings that will generalize to other areas in her life. Your child and his coach need you ON the team. They can't win without YOU! The following are a list of useful facts, guide-lines and strategies for you to use to make you more skilled in the youth sport game. Remember, no wins unless every-one wins. We need you on the team!  Read The Full Articles...

 

Communication Process

The entire ACHIEVE staff is encouraged to keep the lines of communication open with our athletes and their families.  It is our intent to supply you with all of the essential information that you need to manage your commitment to ACHIEVE successfully.  Many times parents have many questions and concerns that they feel need to be discussed with their child’s coaches.  ACHIEVE makes every effort to hire the best possible leaders for our teams.  Our coaches are professionals; they make judgment decisions based on what is best for the entire team taking into account every member of the team.  This is not an easy task and sometimes people feel poorly about their role on a team.  These men and women work extremely hard for little financial benefit, they do it because they love working with kids and realize the positive benefit of participation in youth athletics.  The following are some guidelines and policies to help facilitate the most productive and efficient communication with your child’s coaches.  Read The Full Articles...

 

So You Want To Be A Good Spectator?

Far more than the winning and losing are the lessons learned in process of tournament play. To quote Socrates, “ I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become still better than we are.” The sport of volleyball is unique in its core cooperative nature and its strength in building character. The ability to cooperate is far more important to human survival than the ability to compete. Success is a journey, not a destination. Winning and losing are temporary, but friendships last forever, is a Chinese proverb of great truth. We ask that your role from the sidelines and stands match that which we are developing through our coaching education programs and training. -Thanks for working as part of this program by conducting yourself within these guidelines.  Read The Full Articles...

 

Agony of the Parent

As I watch parents and coaches agonizing over defeat, and in the rapture of victory, I think two key things are missing.

1. The parents need help in enjoying all matches, losses as well as victories.

2. We are good at the lessons of winning but we simply do not teach enough how to gain/learn from losing.
The fact that so many seem to forget, but an essential, key fact that is true in the hundreds of thousands of volleyball matches played world wide each day…is simple. Half the teams playing..…LOSE!  For those wanting percentages, all matches result in 50 percent of the teams in each contest ending up as the loser. Every day, for over 100 years, this has been happening…  Read The Full Articles...