The Winning Youth Coaching Podcast: Youth Sports | Coaching | Parenting | Family Resources
Craig Haworth: Youth Sports Coaching Strategist and Podcaster
171 episodes
4 months ago
Craig Haworth from winningyouthcoaching.com shares his interviews with successful youth sports coaches from around the globe to help the mom or dad youth coach be organized, effective, and win. Discover what tools, resources, books, and strategies the winning youth coaches use, and enjoy many fun stories along the way. Learn from the candid stories of both successes and failures, and implement the insightful recommendations on how to have an awesome experience with your youth sports team this season. Whether you are a fan of football, basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, gymnastics, volleyball, or any other team sport - keep listening to ESPN, but take a few minutes each week to learn from the awesome youth sports coaches so you can get practical tools to make you a Winning Youth Coach.
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Craig Haworth from winningyouthcoaching.com shares his interviews with successful youth sports coaches from around the globe to help the mom or dad youth coach be organized, effective, and win. Discover what tools, resources, books, and strategies the winning youth coaches use, and enjoy many fun stories along the way. Learn from the candid stories of both successes and failures, and implement the insightful recommendations on how to have an awesome experience with your youth sports team this season. Whether you are a fan of football, basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, gymnastics, volleyball, or any other team sport - keep listening to ESPN, but take a few minutes each week to learn from the awesome youth sports coaches so you can get practical tools to make you a Winning Youth Coach.
WYC 168 – Youth Wrestling – Chris Mance – Helping sports families
The Winning Youth Coaching Podcast: Youth Sports | Coaching | Parenting | Family Resources
52 minutes 8 seconds
6 years ago
WYC 168 – Youth Wrestling – Chris Mance – Helping sports families
Chris Mance is a family coach who helps sports families pursue difficult goals while maximizing their happiness on their journey. Chris has a unique story from playing at football at West Point to becoming an entrepreneur, husband, and eventually a father of two young wrestlers. Through his experiences in leadership, Chris has been able to work with families to plan and execute their strategic plans.
Chris’s Website: chrismance.com
Chris' Twitter: @chrismance
Chris’s Instagram: @chairmance2
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Coaching Your Own Kids
Chris was really hard on his first son from an early age. He has gone 180, with him now and with his younger son, he stays focused on being proud of them and just giving them a hug afterwards and de-emphasizing the winning/losing.
Cringe moment
At youth dual meets, early on in Chris' coaching, he was too focused on the scoreboard with the newer athletes instead of just working on technique and focusing on improvement.
Teaching skills & Keeping it fun
Reward kids for working hard with a fun game - sumo wrestling is fun.
King of the hill - start with smallest kid, whoever takes down other wins, and keep going working way up
Culture
Parents are a big part of it - keep them tied in and on board
Doing something like fantasy sports with the kids is a really fun way to build some comraderie within the players of the team
Travel sports
The biggest problem is the season never ends. In a perfect world, kids would only play a sport during its primary season, and then be able to enjoy other sports in the offseasons.
The one that got away
Chris' final wrestling match - he got beat someone who probably wasn't as good as him - but he had taken it for granted and not trained well that week.
Best stolen idea
Sports is a chess match. You always need to be 2 steps ahead, especially mentally.
Favorite books/quote:
Quote: 'Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard'
Book: Wooden (by John Wooden)
Parting Advice
Have a system, plan and prepare
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The Winning Youth Coaching Podcast: Youth Sports | Coaching | Parenting | Family Resources
Craig Haworth from winningyouthcoaching.com shares his interviews with successful youth sports coaches from around the globe to help the mom or dad youth coach be organized, effective, and win. Discover what tools, resources, books, and strategies the winning youth coaches use, and enjoy many fun stories along the way. Learn from the candid stories of both successes and failures, and implement the insightful recommendations on how to have an awesome experience with your youth sports team this season. Whether you are a fan of football, basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, gymnastics, volleyball, or any other team sport - keep listening to ESPN, but take a few minutes each week to learn from the awesome youth sports coaches so you can get practical tools to make you a Winning Youth Coach.
