Stories By JVA
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Junior
/ 3 weeks agoCoaching Mental Performance: Team Identity and Value Systems
Despite a club’s best intentions to make sure all coaches are maintaining consistent verbiage across age groups and skill levels, and...
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Youth
/ 2 months agoCoaching Mental Performance: Reinforcement and Punishment
After the season I always find it appropriate to challenge coaches to reflect on how their teams formed and performed throughout...
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Youth
/ 3 months agoTeach your team to embrace and respond to the randomness of Volleyball
I attended the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul over 20 years ago. The USA men went on to win the...
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Youth
/ 4 months agoCoaching Mental Performance: Termination Conversations
The season is coming to a close and the last tune-up tournaments are taking place before the big National events. It’s...
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Youth
/ 4 months agoClub Training Model: End of Season
Teams who are attending Nationals in June have the month of May and much of June to prep for a Championship....
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Youth
/ 5 months agoMaster Training Philosophy and Execution for 12U-18U
Illini Elite utilizes the master training philosophy for all of its programs from camps and clinics to youth teams and high...
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Youth
/ 5 months agoCoaching Mental Performance: Self-Care for Coaches and Athletes
Whereas the curriculum was the meat and potatoes of my education at Adler University, the broth was this concept of “self-care”;...
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Youth
/ 6 months agoCoaching Mental Performance: 6 Stages of Behavioral Change and “What to do When…”
“I keep telling them to… but they don’t want to listen!”“I’ve been telling them that all season, and here it is...
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Junior
/ 7 months agoCoaching Mental Performance: Developing Rapport
It has been established that a good coach-athlete relationship is paramount for positive performance outcomes at the elite sport level (Gould...
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Recreational
/ 7 months agoPre-Tournament vs. Post-Tournament Practice
In my ten years of professional playing experience, I learned that a pre-tournament practice is critical for the team to perform...