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“Coaches can often be more helpful to a young player’s development by organizing less, saying less, and allowing the players to do more.”ssss1 As coaches we need to create an environment that naturally empowers and encourages players to do more. An empowered player gains the self-confidence to take initiative in doing more, which fuels their creativity, imagination, and passion and creates even greater momentum and motivation.

Youth sports is such a large demographic that no one really knows how many kids are participating annually, but I’ve seen figures estimating that somewhere between 30 to 45 million kids annually participate in organized youth sports in America alone.

If each kid participated in just one organized sport annually, then the preceding number means there will be possibly 300 to 450 million opportunities over the next decade for a coach to positively impact a child during a season of youth sports. This is a generational opportunity, but let us put aside the number of kids for a moment and focus on what may be the more important figure.