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!
Dawn Obeidallah Davis and I spend a morning driving around pitching our books to local libraries. It was a fun morning though we didn’t actually sell any books. Book acquisition for libraries is a process. This is what we learned: There is a book request form at your public library’s website. If you fill that…
It’s midway through the fall sports season, and if you are coaching a youth sports team, I wanted to offer you free resources from How To Coach Girls! Is your goal to get your team to sign up again next season? You might find our Coach Evaluation form useful to give to parents. Coach Evaluation…
I’m really excited to be included at the Chappaqua Book Festival on October 5, 2019. It will be held at Bell Middle School, 50 Senter Street, Chappaqua NY 10514. I’ll be in the nonfiction section repping How To Coach Girls, but I’ll also be reading my picture book, Sumo Joe, during one of the read…
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…