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Podcast: Apogee Strong
Episode: Building Resilience and Prioritizing Growth in Youth Athletes: Lessons Beyond Winning with Jeff LoVecchio
Description: Parent supporting their child in sports is becoming a problem. Some parents are too focused on their child winning at all costs, completely neglecting its reason to help develop their child’s growth. Thus, coaches or mentors need to emphasize the criticalness of long-term athlete development rather than just winning games. Also, coaches need to push children to improve, even if it means failing or being benched at times, and parents need to understand and support the coach's methodology of prioritizing resilience and growth over immediate results.
Jeff LoVecchio is a former professional hockey player who played in...