This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. The authors include exercises that foster teamwork and develop essential skills. They also answer parents' most common questions, such as how to tell if the coach is doing a good job and what to do if a child wants to quit. Filled with stories about the Olympic and World Cup championship teams, this useful handbook is infused throughout with DiCicco's philosophy that at every level playing soccer (or any sport) is about "playing hard, playing fair, playing to win, and having fun."
In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all underline how much still has yet to change before we see gender equality in sports. The chapters in No Slam Dunk show that is this not simply a story of an “unfinished revolution.” Rather, they contend, it is simplistic optimism to assume that we are currently nearing the conclusion of a story of linear progress that ends with a certain future of equality and justice. This book provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been “No Slam Dunk.”
Grab this soccer coaching log book, perfect for any parent or coach keeping track of their son or daughter's soccer team during a long season. This Soccer Coaches Log Book features: 100 pages, 6" x 9" Pages to keep track of dates, matches, opponents, players, coaching notes, and scores Additional pages for extra note taking
I'm Not Yelling This Is Just My Soccer Coach Voice Notebook (Journal | Workbook | Planner | Diary | Diaries |Schoolbook | University) 120 dot grid pages - 8.5x11 - glossy cover The cover on the journal shows a lovely sweet quote and is perfect and fantastic for all Soccer players, coaches, enthusiasts, lovers, teams, fans and champions who love their club, tournaments and championships. This journal makes a perfect unique birthday or christmas gift (present) e.g. for your best friend or a family member (mother, daughter, sister, father,dad, father, brother, son, uncle etc). Make a statement by buying this wonderful workbook for school, university or as a planner for your workplace.
Grab this soccer coaching log book, perfect for any parent or coach keeping track of their son or daughter's soccer team during a long season. This Soccer Coaches Log Book features: 100 pages, 6" x 9" Pages to keep track of dates, matches, opponents, players, coaching notes, and scores Additional pages for extra note taking
Grab this soccer coaching log book, perfect for any parent or coach keeping track of their son or daughter's soccer team during a long season. This Soccer Coaches Log Book features: 100 pages, 6" x 9" Pages to keep track of dates, matches, opponents, players, coaching notes, and scores Additional pages for extra note taking
In this study, Michael A. Messner probes the richly complex gender dynamics of youth sports. Weaving together vivid first-person interviews with his own experiences as a volunteer for his sons' teams, Messner finds that despite the movement of girls into sports, gender boundaries still dominate.
Find flow and reach peak performance—in sports and in life. Based on the groundbreaking Still Quiet Place mindfulness program, this workbook provides practical, step-by-step exercises and skills to help you gain present-moment awareness and achieve your athletic goals. Are you looking for unique ways to "get into the game"? To enhance your training and find focus? You aren’t alone. Increasingly, athletes and coaches—from amateur leagues to professional football champs to Olympic athletes—are incorporating mindfulness practices into their training. That’s because mindfulness can help you lower your stress levels, connect with the moment, and mentally bounce back after setbacks. So whether you're a sports enthusiast or a professional athlete, mindfulness can also help you deal with physical aspects of training, such as fatigue, aches, pains, injury, burnout, and exhaustion. Written by holistic physician, mindfulness coach, and long-time athlete Amy Saltzman, this practical workbook offers mindfulness-based skills you can use any time throughout your athletic career, as well as in daily life. You’ll discover what the author fondly refers to as the “still quiet place,” and from the vantage point of that stillness, you’ll be able to observe your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations—before and during practice and competition, between events, after a miss or significant loss, or exhilarating win. You’ll also find skills for dealing effectively with teammates and coaches, as well as skills for coaching mindfully. A parents guide is also included. No matter what sport you play, 90 percent of performance is mental. With this workbook as your guide, you can use mindfulness to enhance your training, competitive performance, and your life beyond athletics.
Grab this soccer coaching log book, perfect for any parent or coach keeping track of their son or daughter's soccer team during a long season. This Soccer Coaches Log Book features: 100 pages, 6" x 9" Pages to keep track of dates, matches, opponents, players, coaching notes, and scores Additional pages for extra note taking