Side Line habits of Champions
from the coaches’ emergency practice guidebook for youth girls’ lacrosse by kate leavell Champions are NOT the same as super stars. A...
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Kate Leavell
- Aug 25, 2015
- 1 min
Girls Lacrosse Practice Guide Coming September!!
It’s been a long time coming, one of the biggest requests I receive are for drills, games and practice plans for youth girls lacrosse. I...
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Kate Leavell
- Aug 24, 2015
- 4 min
10 take aways from youth sports we must protect
Kids are dropping out of sports, they are falling out of love with programs designed far above their emotional and physical level and...
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Kate Leavell
- Aug 11, 2015
- 5 min
Building a philosphy that works
Building a Philosophy that works I remember feeling very intimidated about the concept of building a philosophy for coaching. Especially...
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Kate Leavell
- Aug 10, 2015
- 4 min
Allow the growing pains to help you grow.
This year, the first day ritual was anything but routine to me. Last year they started their first day of school without me, while I laid...
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Kate Leavell
- Jul 29, 2015
- 4 min
Are you willing to lose, to win?
Gut check time. Time to ask the questions that make us feel a little bit uncomfortable. Are you willing to let a win slip by in the...
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Kate Leavell
- Jul 18, 2015
- 4 min
Youth to High School: making the transition
School is around the corner, and for many players, the jump from youth lacrosse to trying out for the high school team lies ahead. The...
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Kate Leavell
- Jun 29, 2015
- 3 min
AED’s on every field
Mario St. George Boiardi, known as George to his friends and teammates, was a quiet leader who modeled behavior that made his teammates...
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Kate Leavell
- Jun 17, 2015
- 2 min
Getting the most out of travel ball
The regular season is over, the sun is blazing, grass is growing, calf sock tan lines coming in nicely and for many players that means...
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Kate Leavell
- May 26, 2015
- 4 min
A Coaches Top 10 Lessons learned from the Team
As a coach we find ourselves immersed in teaching our athletes, guiding them and very often becoming more of an influence on that time we...
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Kate Leavell
- May 22, 2015
- 3 min
Creating an Internally Motivated Team Culture
Internal motivation is hard to find these days, I’ve heard a lot of coaches with the same issue – trouble motivating players to want to...
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Kate Leavell
- May 15, 2015
- 3 min
To High School Coaches
A letter to high school coaches: As this sport grows, we find ourselves somehow saying yes to things far outside of our comfort zone...
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Kate Leavell
- May 13, 2015
- 1 min
Fundamentals = win
5 reasons coaching fundamentals over all else at youth practice is always WIN!! Don’t have time to work on another stick work drill? Have...
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Kate Leavell
- May 10, 2015
- 4 min
Celebrations: mental recovery training
Only one team ends their season with a win, only one. Why then, is it so hard to lose at that last game when the odds are so high that...
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Kate Leavell
- May 8, 2015
- 2 min
H.K takes on NCAA
Hannah and Meredith It was 2007 when I really got back into coaching lacrosse after moving across the country and being introduced to the...
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Kate Leavell
- May 4, 2015
- 3 min
All for Lax, Lax for All!
One of the reasons I love lacrosse so much, why Im so incredibly loyal to this sport, is because it truly is for everyone. In a society...
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Kate Leavell
- Apr 27, 2015
- 4 min
Building an effective Code of Conduct
With travel ball you have a choice between what program you want to be a part of, but with rec it’s often whatever is in your town....
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Kate Leavell
- Apr 18, 2015
- 2 min
Save the Game!
Our choice is either to preserve this game or abuse it for wins as we train rapidly growing numbers of referees, our newly joining...
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Kate Leavell
- Apr 13, 2015
- 6 min
Player Development 101
Player Development 101 I’ve been all over the place with coaching, anywhere from preschool intro to sports through college NCAA lacrosse,...
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Kate Leavell
- Mar 22, 2015
- 3 min
Play ON!
I’ve heard some terrible reasons for athletes dropping out of sports when they move onto college. There’s a lot of talk about recruiting...
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