X's & O's of Building Character
Every season as a high school coach, I had a very similar trajectory. I always started the season with the goal of building character first in my athletes, doing the right things, and coaching kids up on the court and off the court to be better athletes and better players. Then, we start to win and I feel the pressure to keep winning, and sometimes the character piece takes a back seat to the winning. Then I see a video like the one above and quotes like the one below and I get back on track and back to doing things the way that they should be done. We signup to coach. We want to teach our kids how to play, we want to compete, and we want to win through the process. But if we want to get the most out of the game, our players, and ourselves, we will use the sports that we coach to build character. There is a real, huge relationship between building character and performance. Building character is just like building muscles. When you work on it and put consistent demands on it, you build...