I have dreamed of coaching basketball for years, but I was blessed with the opportunity to coach Pre-K/K Softball this past summer. I will be sharing my experience in two ways:
- what does it mean to be a Catholic Sports Coach? How can we build a foundation of strength and faith in ourselves and our athletes through the way we coach?
- what are the best strength and conditioning methods for training our youth from Pre-K/K through 12 grade? I have three kids under 6 years old learning these exercises along with clients who play professional sports. I will be offering my insight here.
Coaching CYC Little League? Wonder when you can begin doing strength and conditioning exercises with your grade schoolers? Looking for the perfect pre-game prayer? You have come to the right place.
If you are a coach and would like to contribute an article or idea for a article or video to this topic, please contact me any time.
Coaching Little League
Pre-game prayer – I am voting that we all have a little fun with this, honoring and thanking God, and as with everything else CatholicFIT, using the opportunity to share our faith with others. So many times during this past season, after the umpire would mention to the home team coach/parent that it was there turn to lead prayer, a quiet, almost bashful Our Father would eventually begin being mumbled after a hesitant 3 second pause.
I plan to write and offer more prayers to be used. Among others, I am using one of my favorite Catholic prayers – Prayer to the Holy Spirit – as the inspiration and template for these prayers. (Unfortunately, I never came across this particular prayer of the Holy Spirit, but it is one of my favorite.)
Post-Season Awards – here is an idea for post-season team certificates. I created these after my initial Pre-K/K Softball season with my girs. It is called the Tim Reddy Award – Tim is my older brother who passed away from lung cancer in February of 2008. Tim had an amazing way of coaching kids – one of his many dreams was to retire early and coach full time. I wanted to do something in his memory, including his pre-game prayer will be using for all future games when given the opportunity. Check it out and let me know what you think:
Post-Season Team Certificates – the Tim Reddy Award with Prayer
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