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Get to Know Cedric Wilson, Winner of a Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award

Stanford Childrens

“You’ve got to do something in your spare time, so you might as well make it count, right?” Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, which is the highest honor in the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) program. Coaches play a valuable role for kids who don’t have fathers,” he says. Service is what I’ve always believed in.”

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12 Questions with Ian Blease: Baseball Player, Manager and Coach

The Sporting

12 Questions with Baseball Player Ian Blease The Sporting Blog interviews baseball player Ian Blease about his time playing, managing and coaching baseball. Is there a coach, teammate or even a club from your youth that has had a material impact on your life in sport today? Norman Wells Ballpark, Bootle, Merseyside.

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Creating A Personal Wellness Roadmap

The Physical Educator

When I made the jump from teaching to full-time instructional coaching and content creation, I knew that I needed to get crystal clear in regard to the philosophy that would guide my work. With the new year right around the corner, I’ve started to reflect on who I want to be, what I want to achieve, and how I want to feel in 2023.

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How to be a more confident Sports Coach

Sports Coaching FAQ

Self-confidence is a vital component of successful sports performance and is an attribute that effective sports coaches seek to develop in their athletes along side technical and tactical skills. We will now explore Self-efficacy and how it can be applied to developing sports coaches’ self-confidence. What is Self-efficacy?

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Coaching using Play with Purpose

Learning Through Sport

Published 12/03/2012 Updated 30/01/2021 In my role as a teaching and coaching 'academic' I get to see a lot of physical education and sport teaching/coaching, at both primary and secondary school level and in community coaching settings. Involving students/players in game play is not the end of the story.

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Being Your Own Best Teammate: How Self-Compassion Can Promote and Improve Body Image and Eating Concerns In Men

AASP

<p>The pressure to achieve the "perfect" body is palpable, affecting individuals from all walks of life. In this blog post, we will explore the key findings and implications of research, emphasizing how self-compassion is showing promise as an approach to promoting healthy body image and overall well-being.</p>

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A review of small sided games as a coaching pedagogy

Learning Through Sport

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. The increasing recognition of SSG as a training and coaching/teaching tool over the last forty years has led to the research community paying increasingly greater attention to them. Pill, S., & & Agnew, D. International Sports Studies, 41 (2), 5-31.