Coach's Cast: Episode #6: Challenging kids

Intro/Monologue - Killers - Somebody told me

Welcome to the show - Today we are talking about challenges we get in life. We have many challenges in life and many times we think that they are huge. We do overcome them mostly. However we know that sometimes it takes a long time. What can prepare us for these challenges in our life? What can we do to learn from them. Its the same way we learn or prepare for anything. It's through experiencing things once and maybe failing or being hurt by it, that we can learn how to handle it. I can only speak for myself but I've had a few challenges in my life and some were harder and some were easily overcome. I can lean on these past experiences for help in overcoming future ones. Today we will talk about how challenging our kids to do hard things can help them throughout their lives to overcome life's Challenges. Also we will include how sports can be a big part of this.

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Sports are really a metaphor for life. We started out having "fun" with sports but it changed or morphed over the years to be much more than that. Some sports were made because kids needed an outlet for physical energy to help with studies or to stay fit. James Naismith is the inventor of basketball "Naismith was a physical education instructor at YMCA International Training School (now known as Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. Upon the request of his boss, Naismith was tasked to create an indoor sports game to help athletes keep in shape in cold weather.^[1] This game is so much more now. I've coached basketball now at the HS level for 8 years. I've had players come up to me and tell me they were mad at some of the conditioning that we do, at the time. But now that they are grown up and on their own, they actually use the success of getting through some of that hard conditioning to help them overcome difficulties in their lives now.

Roy Andersen is a former player of mine that is now 20-21 years old. He's out there in the real world now. I asked him about his thoughts about being challenges how how hard work played into his success and continued success:

Message from Roy

Message from Sky

Segment 2: <the Killers Read my Mind>

As coaches we are always looking for ways to challenge kids in practice. Its either through competition or through conditioning, games or some way to challenge them. I always try to make my practices very difficult. Either mentally or physically or even sometimes emotionally I do this so that when the games come it's not that hard and the players keep their composure.

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