For the Team - by Meagan Frank (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book is a unique exploration of youth sports in that it examines the adult's experience and behaviors. Offering the author's personal discoveries alongside those of coaches, parents, and experts, this book is an invaluable guide for "Team Adult" to effect change and create an emotionally healthy place for kids to learn, play, and grow.

Book Synopsis

This book is a unique exploration of youth sports in that it examines the adult's experience and behaviors. Offering the author's personal discoveries alongside those of coaches, parents, and experts, this book is an invaluable guide for "Team Adult" to effect change and create an emotionally healthy place for kids to learn, play, and grow.

Review Quotes

As a psychotherapist and parent, I greatly appreciated Frankrsquo;s attention to honoring and holding our child athletesrsquo; experiences and feelings as their own. Frankrsquo;s call to lovingly attend to our childrenrsquo;s dreams, rather than project our own onto them, instills hope for the development of athletes who feel free, whole, and brave.

Coach Frank offers her personal stories as a young, ambitious athlete, an anguished parent of sports-driven children, and a compassionate coach. She bravely untangles the emotional and cutthroat aspects of navigating competitive sports and offers gentle reflections and suggestions to raise balanced, healthy, and active kids.

About the Author

Meagan Frank has been a part of nearly 200 sports communities since her time as an athlete at Colorado College where she played NCAA Division-I soccer and Division-III basketball. She has coached boys' and girls' teams at the college, high school, and youth levels, parented three active athletes, and has held board member positions for four separate sports associations. Meagan regularly gives presentations across the country on the subjects of sports parents and women in sports. She lives in Wisconsin.