The Youth Sports Experience with Aaron Seitz

This episode focuses on the negative consequences of using false praise and the importance of being intentional in how we develop elementary and middle school aged athletes to deliver confident/compet...

22 Feb 20199min

This episode discusses the challenges in managing the range of emotions along the youth/high school sports journey. It covers the different approaches we can take at each step along the way to insure ...

8 Feb 201915min

This episode discusses how our youth and high school athletes, with our support, can avoid defining themselves by single moments and events.

28 Jan 201911min

This episode discusses ways to effectively nurture and support the highly driven young athlete with a special focus on not missing/discouraging the highly driven, yet late developing, young athlete.

27 Nov 201811min

This episode discusses the temptations of player/team ratings and rankings and how letting the temptations frame your thinking, as an athlete or parent, is not conducive to team and individual success...

3 Nov 20189min

This episode discusses three ways we can help our young athletes become empowered to handle loss, struggle, and disappointment effectively and what that can mean for positively influencing their futur...

13 Okt 201815min

This episode discusses the concept of urgent patience and how it can help athletes maximize their long term athletic success.

18 Sep 201811min

This episode discusses the importance of instilling and nurturing 3 key intangible qualities or controllable “abilities” that will benefit athletes now and in their adult lives.

3 Sep 201812min