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By: Monika Coronado, M.S. I’ve heard it said that as long as you do right by your athletes, you can’t get it wrong. In theory, that sounds simple enough. But in practice, I find myself asking what “right”  even means. I question decisions I’ve made, replay conversations in my head, and sometimes that weight sits heavier than any loss could. I’ve asked veteran coaches this same question more times than I can count: How do you know when you’re successful as a coach?  Not in ter

By Dr. Armando Ponce “My name is Louden, Louden Swain. Last week I turned 18. I wasn’t ready for it. I haven’t done anything yet.” That line opens Vision Quest—an '80s movie about a high school wrestler, and it lands like a weight on the chest, because it isn’t really about wrestling. It’s about that moment when adulthood shows up early, unannounced, and you realize your life still feels… unfinished. Louden feels the pressure of meaning—the kind you can’t always explain to yo

Ask any athlete what separates good from great, and you’ll hear it again and again — discipline.

Future Leaders! by: Dr. Armando Ponce Sports are not just entertainment. They are not just the roar of the crowd on Friday nights, the sound of college fight songs on a Saturday afternoon, or the endless highlight reels on social media. Sports are classrooms. Tough, unforgiving, beautiful classrooms. And for young men and women, they are often the first place where life’s hardest lessons are taught: how to lead, how to fail, and how to get back up again. The Test of Adversity

By Dr. Armando Ponce It’s not the championships we remember. Not the points on the board, not the highlight reels. What stays is the voice of a coach, steady in the chaos, reminding us who we can be. Every athlete—high school, college, professional—has a story about the person on the sideline who saw more in them than they saw in themselves. Coaches don’t just shape games. They shape lives. More Than a Game The NCAA once asked thousands of student-athletes about their experie