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Love What You Play

For the Love of the Game

Each week For the Love of the Game meets with the top experts in the youth sports field to provide parents and coaches with the insight, knowledge, and resources they need to ensure kids love what they play.

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33: How to Keep It Simple for Parents and Athletes |...

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2019/08/19

Dave Briglio is the Athletic Legacy Gameplan (ALG) Director for Complete3, an organization for sport, school, and career support, and he is the host of Making the Play Podcast. Growing up, Dave recognized that encouragement from coaches and supervisors was crucial for youth development, so now he dedicates his life to helping others. He created the ATHLETIC LEGACY GAMEPLAN (ALG) specifically to help Athletic Directors and coaches leave their mark on the world and serve their athletes through life,

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32: What Is Mindfulness and Its Benefits | Dr. Amy...

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2019/08/12

Dr. Amy Saltzman is a holistic physician, mindfulness coach, long-time athlete, devoted student of transformation, wife, mother and occasional poet. Her passion is supporting people of all ages in achieving peak performance and finding flow. Amy has the privilege of being recognized by her peers as a visionary and pioneer in the field of mindfulness for athletes, coaches, and other high performers, as well as for kids, teens, and parents. She offers individual holistic medical care and both

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31: How to Coach Millennials, Generation Z and Girls...

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2019/08/05

Mike Butters was a player in the AHL, a General Manager in the AHL, and Assistant GM for Tampa Bay Lightning. Today he occupies several roles as a Midget Hockey Coach for the Seattle Snow Kings Minor Hockey Association, the owner and president of Seattle Hockey Academy, the owner of Preferred Promotional Products, and a managing partner for Players Capital Group. Mike discusses key concepts such as coaching girls vs. boys, the importance of networking, the American Development model (ADM), coaching

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30: Why Lifelong Learning Is Important for Coaches |...

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2019/07/29

As a Director of Coach Development, Chris’s responsibility is working with key stakeholders and partners to support the education, certification and advancement of coaching throughout the province. He has been involved with VBC in many capacities since 2004. In his role he hopes to help coaches navigate the NCCP, support clubs in their quest to field trained and competent coaches, and develop strategies to recruit and retain coaches in the sport from grassroots to high performance. Chris is a

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29: Coaching Certification and Ongoing Development |...

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2019/07/22

Chris Cerroni joined BC Soccer after his previous role as the Regional EXCEL Talent Manager (West) with Canada Soccer. In this position, Chris worked closely with both BC Soccer and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC to implement the Whitecaps FC Girls Elite REX programme in Partnership with BC Soccer,which was launched in January 2015. Prior to his role with Canada Soccer, Chris was the Technical Director at Central City Breakers FC in Surrey and coached in the EA SPORTS BC Soccer Premier League with

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28: It's All About Balance | V.J. Stanley Jr.

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2019/05/20

V.J. Stanley Jr. is an author and public speaker who formed Balanced Excellence (formerly Frozen Shorts) as a youth and high school sports injury prevention company. With over 30 years of experience and a published book, V.J. - and his holistic organic approach to teaching - is changing the youth and high school sports paradigm. He is (with a lot of help) using the Champion's Mindset to reset the youth and high school sports paradigm. He has done consulting work with high school and youth coaches,

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27: Why Sport Sampling Is Important | Steve Boyle

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2019/05/13

Steve Boyle is widely recognized as the national leader in sport sampling and physical literacy in the United States. As a former Division 1 athlete and after nearly 30 years of counseling, teaching, working with children with cancer, athletic and life-coaching, as well as multiple entrepreneurial successes, Steve’s mission is to leave a sustainable legacy that will allow every citizen to gain the ability, balance, confidence, desire and explorative nature to be physically active for life

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26: Perfect Blending of Sport and Art | Erika Howard

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2019/04/29

Erika Howard is a former National Level rhythmic gymnast. When she was competing, her name was Erika Leigh Stirton, but she has since married Canadian Olympic rower Malcolm Howard. Her most successful competition was the 1998 Commonwealth games in which she earned 5 gold metals. Erika believes in sport as a way to set youth up for success. She says that gymnastics can teach you “discipline, work ethic, persistence, taking criticism and learning from it, self development, becoming an independent

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25: The Characteristics of Great Coaches | Dr. Gordon...

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2019/04/23

Dr. Gordon Bloom is a well-published scholar of scientific articles and book chapters, and a Professor of Sport Psychology at McGill University who has worked with the world’s leading coaches and athletes as both a researcher and sport psychology practitioner for over 20 years. He is currently the director of the McGill Sport Psychology Research Laboratory that is focused on applied and theoretical research within sport. There are currently two interrelated themes of research in his lab: (1)

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24: Dangers of Early Sport Specialization and “Elite”...

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2019/04/02

David Newson works with the Semiahmoo Minor Hockey Association alongside a dedicated board of community leaders to enhance the minor hockey experience for the members of the Semiahmoo Hockey community. David provides leadership and resources for a great group of coaches to facilitate a positive growth experience for players in their hockey development. As a Sledge Hockey Technical Delegate for the International Paralympic Committee, David leads technical aspects of IPC World Championships and

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23: Coaching Girls vs. Boys | Vicki Harber

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2019/03/11

Vicki Harber is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta from the Faculty of Physical Education & Recreation. Vicki was honoured in 2011 and 2012 by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity as one of the Most Influential Women in Sport and Physical Activity. Vicki was a rower for the 1980 and 1984 Canadian Olympic Rowing teams. She is involved in researching the female athlete as an academic, she coaches an elite girls’ soccer team and she

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22: The ADM (American Development Model) | Bob Mancini

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2019/03/04

Bob Mancini has extensive coaching experience in the collegiate, professional and international ranks and was named a regional manager of USA Hockey’s American Development Model in July 2009. He helps provide local associations in Illinois, Michigan and Missouri with a blueprint for optimal athlete development that focuses on age-appropriate training utilizing long-term athlete development principles. Mancini joined USA Hockey having spent two seasons (2007-09) as a development coach for the NHL’s

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21: Growth Mentality, Responsibility, Teamwork, and...

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2019/02/25

Duff Gibson is a World and Olympic Champion in Skeleton and the founder of Dark Horse Athletic. Duff competed from 1999 to 2006 when he won gold in the Men’s Skeleton Race. This win made Duff the oldest Canadian Winter Games Gold Medalist and the oldest Individual Winter Gold Medalist in the world. Today, Duff Gibson is a speaker, coach, advocate, and father. With his organization Dark Horse, a kids' multi-sport program, Duff aims to develop athleticism and foster an intrinsic love for

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20: How to Create a Safe-to-Fail Environment |...

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2019/02/11

Demetrius Clark is an experienced track coach and personal trainer with a demonstrated history of working in athletics. Demetrius is skilled in Navy Medical, Fitness Training, Injury Prevention, and Speed development in track. He is a strong community and social services professional and graduated from Indiana University Northwest. From 2000 to 2008, while serving two deployments during OIF in 2003 and 2005, Demetrius became an eight-year US Navy Hospital Corpsman Veteran. As a certified personal

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19: How to Coach Girls vs. Boys & What Is LTPD? |...

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2019/02/04

Rick Benson is a well-known figure in the softball community. As Executive Director for Softball BC, Rick implements strategies as directed by the Softball BC Board of Directors, and he acts as a liaison with provincial and national sport bodies. In addition to being the Executive Director for Softball BC, Benson frequently volunteers his time to the sports world. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of a volunteer committee to organize and oversee Canada Cup International Softball tournaments. In

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18: Why Free Play Is So Important | Jeremy Frisch

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2019/01/21

Get Access To All Summit Speakers “On the surface, it makes sense. Get a kid to do something all the time, he’s going to be really great at it… but then you dive a little further and you realize that’s not how we develop. You don’t just go to school to learn math at the expense of English, you learn a little bit of everything.” Jeremy Frisch is the owner of Achieve Performance Training. Growing up, Jeremy had access to an athletic environment where kids played outside, made their own sports

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17: How to Disguise Drills | Darren Wensor

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2019/01/14

Get Access To All Summit Speakers “I think we’re too often rushing kids past the fundamentals and that leaves them with a faulty foundation.” Darren Wensor resides in Sydney, Australia. Growing up, he participated in Little Athletics, a modified track and field program for kids age 5-15. Darren earned his degree in physical athletics and English, and today he works with Little Athletics! As an educator of 28 years, Darren travels all over Australia to teach coach and athlete development. He

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16: How to Prevent Overuse Injuries | Kyla Hartnell

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2019/01/07

Get Access to the Full Summit “I want you to explore movement more. Not necessarily in the sport you love, but I want you to go play on the monkey bars, I want you to go wrestle, I want you to do some gymnastics and some vaulting and some yoga.” As the founder and owner of Long Lake Sports & Orthopaedic Physiotherapy (based in Nanaimo, British Columbia), Kyla Hartnell has worked extensively with national amateur and professional hockey and rugby players, and loves the challenge of

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15: Working with Parents in Sport | Gordon MacLelland

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2018/12/10

“We all know that organized chaos tends to lead to the best coaching sessions." You can’t blame parents for being excited to go watch their kids play sports. Instead of “dealing” with parents, Gordon MacLelland, founder of Working with Parents in Sport and author of the Sporting Dos and Don’ts handbook for parents, engages and involves parents in the athletics process to ensure success for the teams he works with. In this heartwarming talk, Gordon discusses proactive communication with parents

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14: Coaching Better Every Season | Dr. Wade Gilbert

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2018/12/03

“How will you know at the end of the season that you did a good job as a coach?” Dr. Wade Gilbert, author of Coaching Better Every Season, has spent 25 years conducting applied research with coaches around the world spanning all sports and competitive levels. From spending time with John Wooden to working with the Olympic Games, Dr. Gilbert has greatly influenced disciplines dedicated to optimizing development and performance across sport settings. He talks with us about competition being done

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