Issues & Advice

When all is said and done, hockey athletes should be consuming during-the-game nutrition every single time in one form or another. Any hockey player or coach understands that what we eat is important, but how about when you eat it? Especially for a hockey game? In this blog post, let’s review the different areas of nutritional sports […]

Enjoy these few short weeks of competition. Your swimmer is making more memories you’ll treasure for years to come. High school swimming can be a fun, amazing part of your children’s swimming careers. If they are year-round swimmers, high school allows them a moment to shine with their school peers. The school spirit and working […]

Generally, there are multiple contributors at play. The guidance of a trained, medical professional will be imperative in helping to decipher the puzzle of factors that are provoking symptoms. I gasp for air. But my lungs don’t expand. The air gets caught in my throat like a punch being blocked in a fight. Instead of […]

This is not to say it’s easy to advance in this game, but the confidence you need to get there comes from believing you can and taking the steps to attain it. Just go and talk to him. This is what I had to tell myself a few times in the dugout of a big […]

Learn to understand that you will think negatively at some point. It’s an automatic response from your brain. But how we react to a negative thought defines its effect on us. It’s no secret that hitting a baseball is up there as one of the most difficult things you can do as a human being. […]

During my children’s age group years, there were always a few parents that I didn’t “get.” During my children’s age group years, there were always a few parents that I didn’t “get.” We were an overzealous swim family and once both my kids decided they wanted to be year-round swimmers, we dove in. We were supportive in […]

Encourage your child to think through all the options before quitting, and never make a decision in the heated emotion of the moment. When youth sports gets hard, it’s no surprise that kids are tempted to quit. Nobody likes facing difficulty and through 22 years of being a sports mom, there were numerous occasions when our […]

I want to my swimmers to get better. I want them to learn something new every day – something that helps them get a step closer to achieving their goals and to realizing their potential. It’s pretty simple logic. Swimmers want to get better at what they do. The first and most important step of […]

No longer will you be worried about embarrassing your kids. We’ve earned the right to make a scene and be loud. When it’s conference time, parents have a fun time celebrating their teams and swimmers with gifts, cheers, goodie bags and get-togethers. Throughout the years, our kids have worked hard and we’ve driven to countless […]