Here’s another great example of sportsmanship from college softball in Oregon a couple of years ago. It’s not the World Series but you can see from the coaches and players involved that it was very meaningful to them. If you haven’t seen this before, it’s fantastic, and a great example for athletes and coaches of [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Values on December 30, 2009 | Comments Off
8. Neil Crone – Part 1
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged perspective, Value of Sport, Values on December 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the spirit of the season, this week’s post is more of a sentimental choice for me. Neil Crone (see contributors) although now a very successful actor and comedian was once a high school football player coached by my father. As an award winning columnist, he wrote two pieces about those days. I could go [...]
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Got an e-mail from Lester the other day, an old speed skating team mate of mine. He had a few stories to share about sportsmanship and this was one of them: Don’t know if you follow english “football” but the FA cup is like the Stanley cup, only bigger. Teams from multiple leagues compete, elimation [...]
7. Ben Rutledge – Part 2
Posted in Teamwork, tagged perspective, Teamwork, The Challenge on December 18, 2009 | Comments Off
The process of finding athletes who can survive in this sort of environment is not an easy task and is the reason we have an “open camp”. Basically, any rower who has at least shown a basic level of skill or potential is allowed to train alongside the best rowers in Canada. The top rowers/athletes [...]
6. Ben Rutledge – Part 1
Posted in Teamwork, tagged Teamwork, The Challenge on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m really grateful for the tremendous support I’ve received for this project and part of that has come in the form of other athletes writing entries. Ben Rutledge is a World and Olympic champion rower (www.benrutledge.com; twitter.com/ben_rutledge) and has written the following entry. I think you’ll find it extremely insightful in terms of what it [...]
5. Teamwork and Positive Rivalry – Part 1
Posted in Teamwork, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Teamwork on December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Cal Botterill (see Contributors) is an accomplished teacher of sport (or performance) psychology. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Cal over the past few years through his work with the Canadian bobsleigh and skeleton teams (while I have been coaching skeleton). Before meeting Cal, I certainly knew of him by reputation [...]
Follow-up…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge on December 7, 2009 | Comments Off
The following Toronto Star article was actually recommended to me by two different people in the last week. It’s definitely worth the read and in a sense is very similar to the post about Gregor Staehli from November 19th. What you may or may not realize reading the article is that Jamie Gregg made an [...]
4. It’s About The Journey
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged Value of Sport on December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“You’re not going to get anywhere if you think you’re already there.” Anonymous As the quote implies, to get to the top you have to constantly strive to improve and for some, that means they will never be satisfied until they reach their goals. As is the case with many athletes, when you’re trying to [...]
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