Taking the Crazy Out of Youth Sports - Keltner, Coach Rick
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Youth sports teams in the United States have provided a record number of opportunities for youngsters to participate. Across the country forty-five million youth between the ages of six and eighteen participate in some form of organized sports. Seventy-five percent of all families in the United States have at least one child participating in youth sports. Seventy percent of these kids are quitting sports by age thirteen. Coach Rick Keltner believes youth sports can and should be much better for all participants. With that belief, supported by his 116 seasons and 44 years of varsity high school…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Youth sports teams in the United States have provided a record number of opportunities for youngsters to participate. Across the country forty-five million youth between the ages of six and eighteen participate in some form of organized sports. Seventy-five percent of all families in the United States have at least one child participating in youth sports. Seventy percent of these kids are quitting sports by age thirteen. Coach Rick Keltner believes youth sports can and should be much better for all participants. With that belief, supported by his 116 seasons and 44 years of varsity high school coaching ,research and personal experience, he created the P.E.A.C.E. Process for youth sports. This plan involves organizing and working with the Peace Team which consists of the most important groups involved in youth sports: Parents, Educators, Athletes, Coaches, and Everyone else who cares.
Autorenporträt
Rick Keltner has worn just about every hat possible in youth sports. He was a head varsity boys high school basketball coach for 42 years. Keltner was a high school football coach for sixteen years, head cross-country coach for twelve years, and high school track coach for forty-two years. As a parent of two children, he also coached soccer, basketball, softball, and baseball. On the administration side, Keltner served as a principal and athletic director at Tipton High School in Tipton, Kansas, for eight years. His forty-two year teaching career included physiology, biology, health, physical education, and weight training, along with Project Adventure, a team-building course that included high- and low-element ropes courses.