A 10-year-old comes home from practice. Their parent asks how it went. The kid says "fine," and that's all the parent has to work with. Maybe the parent will see...
A 10-year-old comes home from practice. Their parent asks how it went. The kid says "fine," and that's all the parent has to work with. Maybe the parent will see.
The first day of summer camp is a few weeks out, and most programs are running roughly the same camp they ran last year. Maybe a small staffing shift. Maybe...
The first day of summer camp is a few weeks out, and most programs are running roughly the same camp they ran last year. Maybe a small staffing shift. Maybe.
A six-year-old finishes the program's beginner soccer clinic. Six weeks, twelve sessions, the standard introduction. The kid had a good time. The parents got their money's worth. Everyone is friendly....
A six-year-old finishes the program's beginner soccer clinic. Six weeks, twelve sessions, the standard introduction. The kid had a good time. The parents got their money's worth. Everyone is friendly..
Tryouts end. Rosters get posted. The kids who made the top team celebrate, the kids who made the next tier shrug, and the kids who didn't make any team at...
Tryouts end. Rosters get posted. The kids who made the top team celebrate, the kids who made the next tier shrug, and the kids who didn't make any team at.
There's a subtle pattern in youth sports that researchers have a clinical name for and most directors have never heard of. Identity foreclosure. It happens when an athlete starts to...
There's a subtle pattern in youth sports that researchers have a clinical name for and most directors have never heard of. Identity foreclosure. It happens when an athlete starts to.
A parent loses it on a referee during a tournament game. Voice raised, profanity, the kind of moment everyone in the stands suddenly looks at. Maybe the parent walks it...
A parent loses it on a referee during a tournament game. Voice raised, profanity, the kind of moment everyone in the stands suddenly looks at. Maybe the parent walks it.
Two kids on the same team have similar athletic potential. Same age, same starting skill level, same coach, same practice schedule. Six months later, one of them has clearly developed...
Two kids on the same team have similar athletic potential. Same age, same starting skill level, same coach, same practice schedule. Six months later, one of them has clearly developed.
Most programs end the season the same way. Coaches submit final evaluations, the director runs the retention numbers, maybe a parent survey goes out. The data gets logged, the offseason...
Most programs end the season the same way. Coaches submit final evaluations, the director runs the retention numbers, maybe a parent survey goes out. The data gets logged, the offseason.
The first practice in March feels like a different sport than the practice in mid-May. The athletes who showed up fresh are now ten weeks of tournaments deep. The coaches...
The first practice in March feels like a different sport than the practice in mid-May. The athletes who showed up fresh are now ten weeks of tournaments deep. The coaches.
There's a quiet failure mode in whole-athlete marketing that nobody talks about. A program leans into character development, emotional intelligence, and "we care about who your kid becomes" messaging. The...
There's a quiet failure mode in whole-athlete marketing that nobody talks about. A program leans into character development, emotional intelligence, and "we care about who your kid becomes" messaging. The.