A Positive Experience: Getting Hit by a "Brick"
By Milt Sherman
Originally printed in the April 2005 issue of Scholastic Coach
Reprinted here with permission
One of the oldest problems in coaching is failing to train and improve your young athletes as much as you would like. As the saying goes, "The will to win is not as important as the will to prepare to win." Most athletes can grasp a concept that they can see and touch much better than one that is simply articulated to them. What they fail to realize is just how short their high school careers are. To the typical ninth-grader, four years seem like an eternity. But by graduation, you will hear most of them mourn: "It all went so fast." Though the average lifespan is about 78 years, most kids don't have the attention span to work on their goals for even one year - assuming they have any goals at all.
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