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Playing sports positively influences kids and students to be upstanding citizens throughout life. Teaching kids the importance of resilience, social skills, leadership, teamwork, and the importance of surrounding yourself with supportive people or family. Good coaching teaches young men and women to be better people not just win the game. The ever-lasting impact sports have had on my life are something I cherish and hope to pass on. "Sports provide an interactive way to learn. Whether the skills are sport-specific or broader, organizers encourage youth to take positive risks and value self-improvement over winning." https://byedl.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2020/10/ESP-452-Implementing-Sports-Based-Positive-Youth-Development.pdf

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Incentivizing basic activities are something coaches can do to introduce kids to new roles within their peers. BYA offers a plethora of sport opportunities for kids to play sports and put life skills or developmental process in the forefront. "We stress sportsmanship, teamwork, self-confidence, self-discipline and healthy competition" https://bya.org/content/195/Football
BYA is an association that has been around for many milestones throughout the Burleson, Tx community. Kids are continually given the opportunity to experience new roles within their team that will help shape the teenagers they become.

Giving athletes new tasks asserts them with a new voice and understanding of confidence within their team. With the BYA goals in mind when you achieve this process you are becoming the athletes bioecological system without realizing it. Good coaches create a community within their team. This allows for a relationship to be formed if done correctly. The positive youth development through the coaches allows for the team to become the macrosystems and mesosystems to the individuals.

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Mission: "At BYA, we strive to help our kids develop into positive, productive teens and young adults through participation in organized sports."
https://bya.org/content/195/Football
As a coach you are not just giving tools of the game but tools in life. Throughout the game of football, any sport, kids are faced with adversity. This can come in the form of injuries, outside "distractions", family problems, and the scoreboard. These are all issues coaches need to equip their athletes to face and they all can be used off the field. typically expanding the athletes idea of identity and letting them confide in their peers while learning how to lead and being apart of a team.

Creating a philosophy as a coach or mentor to a football player needs to be a priority. "well thought-out philosophy that prioritizes the

physical, psychological, and social development of athletes." https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F21520704.2011.584246

This sets the tone for you and the students as soon as you step foot in the same room as them. Constantly shaping and creating resilient humans through their own life struggles. Coaches have a unique opportunity to help students through their adversity by showing them different ways to handle and relate their adversity to the game of football. Studies performed in Canada have shown that coaches were most successful when they relate lessons learned on the field to non-sports setting and even argued a good program and coaches implementing such strategies make for the the most positive outcome for students.

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The ted talk really shows how much we as humans have put competition above the well-being of our kids, or athletes. Programs that I have played in throughout high school, and the BYA, encourage kids play every sport they can. This is important not only for their health but relationships, and other sports have lessons to offer players. Football did a wonderful job at allowing us to work toward goals and showing us nothing comes easy without work. Positive youth development strives when a group of people work toward a single goal. In high school they aloud us to compete for "elk master" shirts in the offseason. The competition aloud us to work harder than we ever had but also aloud our peers to cheer each and everyone of us on. This allowed the shift the mentality of "only winning" to letting us show what we could really do together developing our ability to adapt everyday. "the best strategy could be implemented by nurturing both the heart and mind of our players." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQDm5o6-7U
Ask your kids at the end of the day if they had fun, did they apply their real life struggles to the game of football or was it their escape to build both memories and comradery. around the 5:20 mark in the Ted Talk he asks coaches to not just focus on winning. This is key to building up young men and women. He goes on to building up these athletes while keeping in mind that coaches and parents are nurturing the heart and mind of these kids in everything they do or accomplish.

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Who is on my team not who is my team.
This is a strategy focused on the team but in reality we have to make it about the individual to be successful.

Am I fit to implement this strategy?
I love to win and I still believe in a team that it is important. This becomes more important as your athletes are older but does not change the effectiveness of this strategy. Athletes want your love and guidance more than they want to win most of the time.

Am I good at losing, can I show how to lose even when I do not want to as a coach?
In today's participation trophy era we forgot to teach kids how to lose. In this strategy I believe it can be very effective on showing athletes how to lose and that it is okay to lose. That being said, the program and environment created is only as good as the coach.

What are the individual experience level?
I am not sure this strategy could be effective without the same message or even coaches. It is important to have consistency in adolescent and children's life so without a clear standard it would be hard. Coaches need to be on the same page and allow for the students to bring in their environment they have created it while nurturing it, building it up instead of starting new each year.

Sports "politics" have to be pushed to the side for the kids. Rotating roles is a good way to minimize this. There needs to be a conscious effort of coaches to know and acknowledge each individual especially at an early age.

Starting early would be best. This strategy would be harder to implement if it started for everyone in high school. I think it is important to have a wide variety of experience and allow the peers to help each other.

Sports specialization would kill this strategy completely. Kids need a wide variety of sports and environments. Without this experience kids will learn to love sports less and take it on as a job. They will also not be on a "team" for a lot of the offseason, only training. The best thing we can do as coaches is to have kids get as much experience as they can.

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Through my experience I have been able to see these strategies first hand and how they work. As a building block these strategies are gold for young children and adolescents that need the structure. The programs i have participated in had schedules we all grew to know while have leaders that swtched each week to move us from task to task. Even team captains were voted on each week allowing for peers and coaches to choose who they believed worked the hardest in preparation. It best fits when the team have a confidant that they "buy" into and trust. For example, we have incentivized programs in the offseason were offered to us to earn a special shirt if we exceeded the expectations of our peers. The environment created throughout practices, fellowship, relationships are the biggest factors to implementing positive youth development in their programs. This works on kids that have a fantastic home life and kids that fell like all they have is the team or sport they play. Creating the identity of the team helps the students create their own identity reassures their own self confidence. Most kids that have gone through programs like BYA, or high school football do not play on any other level. Each lesson learned on the field was most effective when we all applied it to our own lives then and now. The impact of these environments will never leave the now adults that were in these programs. Consistency in the way you communicate is important as well. Our coaches always maintained in open door for on or off the field issues. In fact they wanted to help with off the field issues first so we could be most present on the field. the coaches helped us prioritixe life through reapting "1. Faith, 2. Family, 3. School, 4. Sports".

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQDm5o6-7U

https://byedl.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2020/10/ESP-452-Implementing-Sports-Based-Positive-Youth-Development.pdf

https://bya.org/content/195/Football

https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F21520704.2011.584246