Nov 14, 2024 | Mental Health, Player Development
This article was written by Santiago Figueyra, Rush Soccer’s Mental Health Coach. Soccer is an amazing sport that requires both physical and mental skills. But sometimes, the mental part can be challenging, especially when it comes to anxiety. Many of you may...
Mar 8, 2024 | Coaching Development, Mental Health, Parent Development
This post is based on an article from acclaimed psychologist Carl Pickhardt. As said many times before, youth sports are about developing good players and good, healthy people, and we know at times this might sound like a cliché or a vague phrase, so we want to be...
Jun 28, 2023 | Coaching Development, Mental Health, Parent Development
This article was written by Michelle Weimer, Rush Soccer’s Certified High Performance Coach. As a high-performance coach, I have witnessed countless athletes with incredible physical abilities fall short of reaching their true potential. What sets apart the...
Jun 22, 2023 | Coaching Development, Mental Health, Parent Development
This post was written by Pablo Toledo, Rush Soccer’s Sporting Project Director. In this is remarkable study, Carol Dweck and her team researched for over a decade the effects of praise on students, reaching some amazingly revealing results of the effects of...
Jul 19, 2019 | Coaching Development, Mental Health
Todd Rose is the co-founder and president of the Center for Individual Opportunity and a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a scientist in developmental psychology known for his work applying dynamical systems principles to the study of...
Jun 29, 2019 | Coaching Development, Mental Health
There are an almost infinite number of soccer books. Books about technique, tactics, games, drills, players, and coaches etc. Just like you, I’ve read hundreds, I liked some better than others, and I’ve surely learned at least one thing from all of them....
