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In this episode Coach Jim and Coach Keri talk about burnout in youth sports-- its causes, their own experience, and things we can do to combat it.

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In this episode Coach Jim and Coach Keri sit down with Kristyn Gontarek to talk about social emotional learning, meeting kids where they are, coaching and parenting strategies to maximize engagement, ideas to connect with athletes that are on the spectrum or have behavior disorders, and Kristyn's own experience as a new youth sport parent.

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In this episode Coach Jim and Coach Keri talk about toxic adults. They talk about the roles adults play in youth sports, traits that make certain roles toxic, a root cause of the toxicity, and what we can do to solve it.

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In this episode Coach Jim and Coach Keri give their hot takes on youth sports and sports in general-- ranging from Caitlin Clark to whether coaching has become to "soft" today.

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In this episode Coach Jim and Coach Keri sit down with Scott McDermott. Scott has been a youth soccer coach for 15+ years, a board member of a local soccer organization, and is now the recreation director for the statewide agency Soccer Rhode Island. They discuss how youth sports has changed over time, the difference between how the US treats youth athletic development versus the rest of the world, and how a lack of structure leads to learning.

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Coach Jim and Coach Keri sit down with Jess Ruhle, a former D1 field hockey player, coach, and official as well as a current sports parent. They discuss the role that officials play in youth sports, what it's like to officiate games, why so many officials are quitting, and what we can do to make things better.

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In this episode Coach Jim and Coach Keri talk about talk about coaching in youth sports-- basic demographics, ways coaches negatively impact kids, and things we can do, as coaches, to improve ourselves and our kids.

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In this episode, Coach Jim and Coach Keri talk about money in youth sports. They talk through typical costs that families face, hidden organizational costs, inequality due to income, and the cold hard facts about college scholarships. They end with some ideas to ease the burden.

Links from episode:

• https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TeamSnap-Project-Play-REPORT-v2.pdf
• https://blog.massmutual.com/planning/cost-youth-sports
• https://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting/how-to-get-recruited/scholarship-facts
• https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college

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