Coaches are under qualified , under paid, over worked, and have a huge influence on your kids overall experience.
Meanwhile parents are paying like 5k to 8k a year for their kid to be in the program. Keeping up with the Jones’s.
Taking up all family time. Practices 3 days a week, tournaments...
What I see is players that usually but not always play some college level and just stay involved in the game as coaches to make side $ to supplement their teaching jobs. What I’ve seen is sometimes the younger coaches be the worst ones when it comes to dealing with 10u type teams. Cuz their...
My girls play travel/AAU volleyball and majority of coaches are actually teachers, but it doesn’t always reflect in their behavior/understanding of working with young kids
when I was out there a couple months ago we went to Piff the Magic Dragon, it was pretty damn funny. Not for everyone I guess lol. Matter fact a decent amount of people there prob shouldn’t have been, but it was hilarious to me and people without sticks in their butts
Problem I’ve had is I’ll buy a new pair and instead of sending one out, I just put a shoe I can live without into the part of my brain that says “Ill get around to offing them”, but don’t actually do it smh