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Proper Approach to Basketball Practice

Ryan Tremblay
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One of the most important things young basketball players can learn is the proper approach to basketball practice. Despite what many may think, practice is where basketball players improve and grow. The basketball players that are focused on listening, learning and working hard are the players that improve the most. These players that develop the…

Good Attitude in Youth Sports

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Although skills and abilities are of key importance in sports, one could argue that athletes’ attitudes are just as important. A positive mental attitude is one of the many positive effects of youth sports. If athletes play with good attitudes, they can make the best out of a bad situation, like a blowout loss, and…

Mental Toughness

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Having mental toughness is important for young athletes, as they are prone to outbursts of emotion thanks to their age and inexperience. It is important for adults to help their young charges develop mental toughness, as it will help guide participants in youth sports about overcoming adversity. One way adults can help is by having…

Positive Effects of Youth Sports

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Youth sports are great ways for young athletes to get active. However, they have a number of additional benefits that make them valuable ways for participants to spend their time. According to experts, female high school athletes are 92 percent less likely to take drugs and 80 percent less likely to become pregnant if they…

Benefits of Youth Sports

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Youth sports have a number of benefits for participants. School is of course more important than sports but they do go hand in hand. Sports can be so influential youth athletes and that is why many offer youth sports in schools.   One benefit is that children who play youth sports have better physical development than those…

Setting Goals in Youth Sports

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One of the most important ways to achieve success as a youth athlete is setting goals and working to achieve them. All great youth athletes take the time to not just think about the goals they want to achieve during their career but write them down as well. Goal setting should be something that is taken very…

Overcoming Adversity

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Adversity is something that most athletes will face at some point in their lives. Whether it comes from losing a big game, from making a mistake that costs his or her team the championship or from not getting much playing time for one reason or another, adversity is an issue that all but the most…

What is Teamwork?

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Most your sports are team sports and require players to demonstrate good teamwork. The players who make up a teams must understand what teamwork is, in order to really experience and be successful at the sport. Teamwork is hard for most youth athletes to really understand because it is human nature to want to achieve your personal…

Respond to Adversity

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The famous saying, “When the going get tough the TOUGH get going” is the most positive way to respond to adversity. This saying, which was said by John F. Kennedy’s father Joseph, helps people rise to the challenge when circumstances do know go in their favor. A career in youth sports, or anything you are…

No I in Team

Ryan Tremblay
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In today’s youth sports world I feel that the term, there is No I in Team has become a very rare understanding for a player to have. I also feel that for an athlete to be great he or she must not only understand that there is No I in Team but they must really believe it.…
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