How To Coach Girls by Mia Wenjen and Alison Foley. Did you know that 70% of all kids quit organized sports by the age of 13, with girls quitting at 6x the rate of boys?
Alison Foley, Boston College’s Women’s Head Soccer Coach, and Mia Wenjen, parenting blogger at PragmaticMom.com, help coaches — both parent volunteer and professional — crack the code of how to keep girls in sports.
As a mother of two daughters who played a lot of sports, Mia provides personal accounts to illustrate issues discussed throughout the book. Alison, also a mother of a young female athlete, has hands on advice from coaching young women professionally for more than two decades.
Volunteer parents and experienced coaches alike will find invaluable advice on creating a successful team that motivates girls to stay in sports beyond the middle school years. Twenty-two chapters cover major issues, including how to pick captains, the importance of growth mindset, issues around body image and puberty, as well as the challenges of coaching your own daughter.
In addition, fifteen professional coaches from a range of sports, including former Olympian athletes, give their advice on what girls need from a coach to allow them to flourish in sports, and most importantly, have fun. This is a hands-on manual to help coaches keep girls in sports!
I presented along with on Family Community Literacy Night Presentation at Plymouth Community Intermediate School. This is the intermediate school that my co-author of How to Coach Girls, Alison Foley, attended. My presentation was on Multicultural Children’s Book Day and all the different ways readers can get free diversity books from our programs. They asked if the presentation…
Did you know that 70% of all kids quit organized sports by the age of 13, with girls quitting at 6x the rate of boys? It’s not easy to keep girls in sports, and it’s a labor of love to coach, especially those who are volunteer parent coaches. We want to help. We are giving…
How To Coach Girls book and swag GIVEAWAY!
In celebration of the launch of How To Coach Girls book, we are partnering with Berkshire Soccer Academy, a sleep away soccer camp for girls, with a five-part series: March: The effect of Team Impact on the Boston College Women’s Soccer Team. April: Alison and I sent our daughters, Sidnie and Ali, for a week of soccer camp at…
You are cordially invited to our How To Coach Girls book launch events coming up on Mother’s Day weekend in Massachusetts! The first one is: Friday, May 11 5pm Artemis Yoga 639 Mt Auburn St Watertown, MA 02472 Artemis Yoga is home to Soccer on the Mat, Alison Foley’s brainchild that combines soccer and…