Issues & Advice

With kids headed back to school, check out these tips and tricks to help them acclimate to the student-athlete lifestyle.

Hear a coaches advice on when to pull back the reigns on coaching your own child.

The past few decades have seen incredible shifts in recommendations regarding the benefits, and potential risks, of different stretching protocols for athletes.

Winning is great - but joyful, meaningful winning comes from a good team process. First and foremost, teach children the purpose of youth sports.

Helping coaches, youth sports leaders, students, and others overcome myths and barriers will help girls and women “breakthrough” in play and coaching.

Dive into a coach's advice to how a parent or guardian can help a child deal with disappointments or setbacks in sports

The 100-Point Exercise is a good starting place to keep your goals as parent in balance with your children's goals.

Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse, or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group. Often held up as tradition, coaches may feel pressure to allow these rituals in the name of team bonding

Here are a few warning signs that perfectionism is taking a dangerous turn and explain what you can do to help as an athletic trainer.

Hear from youth sports coaches on how to determine whether or not your kid should be allowed to quit their sport midseason.