Many athletes start playing a sport as a child and never try anything else. Parents often send their children to specialized training from an early age, with the mindset that this is what creates the potential for a child to become a great athlete. However, youth specialization is actually counterproductive. The child’s skills in a […]
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Andrew Gregory, CSCS is an assistant coach for the Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams at DePauw University in Indiana. He trains teams on the court and off-court for both Tennis skills and sports performance. As a trainer and a coach, how does he develop the skills of his players? Let’s learn the three keys he […]
Tim Vagen is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. He has over 40 years of clinical, field, and teaching experience. He helps athletes, trainers, and Physical Therapists to be better educated in movement skills Moreover, his programs have produced 17 Olympic Medals, Multiple World Records, US National Figure skating champions, multiple US national Swim Champions, […]
Jae Taft is the founder of Us Girls Basketball. She is a former collegiate basketball player and current basketball coach. Outside of developing young basketball players in Florida, Jae has developed Recruiting System 101, a product which helps high school athletes decipher the collegiate recruiting journey and process. She offers us her three keys to […]
Episode 6 Jae Taft is the founder of Us Girls Basketball. Jae is a former collegiate basketball player, and current basketball coach who talks to us about the importance of developing both on court skills as well as off the court skills and how off the court makes you better on the court. She offers […]
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Many club teams and organizations are not sustainable from dues alone, and look to outside fundraising, donations and sponsorships to fund all club activities. Being a collegiate coach for the Bryant University Men’s Rugby Team, a club sports team, who must generate some of their funding from fundraising, this is a very familiar topic for […]
Episode 5 In a former life I was a high school science teacher who gravitated to spending hours in the weight room. One of the students whom I most often found there, was Jack Dustin, who is now the Head Strength and Conditioning coach at Endicott College. Jack played Football at Assumption College, where he […]