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For the Team: How to Improve the Youth Sports Experience for Everyone

Meagan Frank

This book is a unique exploration of youth sports in that it examines the adult's experience and behaviors. Offering the author's personal discoveries alongside those of coaches, parents, and experts, this book is an invaluable guide for "Team Adult" to effect change and create an emotionally healthy place for kids to learn, play, and grow.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publish Date: Feb 4th, 2025
  • Pages: 216
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.70in - 0.70in - 0.74lb
  • EAN: 9781538198445
  • Categories: Parenting - GeneralChildren's & Youth SportsPersonal Growth - General

About the Author

Meagan Frank has been a part of nearly 200 sports communities since her time as an athlete at Colorado College where she played NCAA Division-I soccer and Division-III basketball. She has coached boys' and girls' teams at the college, high school, and youth levels, parented three active athletes, and has held board member positions for four separate sports associations. Meagan regularly gives presentations across the country on the subjects of sports parents and women in sports. She lives in Wisconsin.

Praise for this book

As a psychotherapist and parent, I greatly appreciated Frank's attention to honoring and holding our child athletes' experiences and feelings as their own. Frank's call to lovingly attend to our children's dreams, rather than project our own onto them, instills hope for the development of athletes who feel free, whole, and brave.

--Connie North, PhD, MS LMFT, therapist for adolescents, individual adults, couples/partners, and support groups

In For The Team, Meagan Frank takes the reader through a journey of how to productively develop young athletes, using life enhancing examples and research based techniques that will make a difference for adults and their athletic kids. A must read for parents and young athletes!

--John E. Anderson, PhD, founder and chairman, Center for Sports Psychology

Coach Frank offers her personal stories as a young, ambitious athlete, an anguished parent of sports-driven children, and a compassionate coach. She bravely untangles the emotional and cutthroat aspects of navigating competitive sports and offers gentle reflections and suggestions to raise balanced, healthy, and active kids.

--Jeanne W. Rothaupt, PhD, LMFT, retired director of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Counseling Center