Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for December, 2009

Great Examples…

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Great Examples…

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

7. Ben Rutledge – Part 2

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

6. Ben Rutledge – Part 1

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Follow-up…

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

“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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 116 other followers