Menlo’s Landon Pretre sets impressive pace on opening night at Woodbridge Cross Country Classic
BlogTrack & Field, Anchored by Youth Runner September 26, 2024 0
Pretre produces 3-mile effort of 14:16.7 to help Menlo triumph, with Natrona County of Wyoming teammates Brubaker and Wheeler also earning victories at Great Park in Irvine Menlo School of California’s Landon Pretre Photo by Ken Martinez The spotlight was on several California Division 5 boys standouts Friday, with... Read more
Our Children Are Amazing, So Why Do We Keep Messing With Them? As parents, way too often we tend to fixate on our children’s failures. We look at their grades, their inability to hit a baseball or make a basket as failure, rather than focusing on their effort and... Read more
Life Lesson, Parent of Athletes: Keep Perspective
Camps & ClinicsLEVELUP INSIDERS September 23, 2018 0
The quality of your child’s ability is not a direct reflection of the quality of your parenting skills. First, let me say, I am one of you. A parent of athletes. I have two kids, a son now 16 years of age and a daughter, 14. They both have... Read more
Talk, Teach, Play. How To Train Young Athletes
LEVELUP INSIDERS June 25, 2018 0
Talk, Teach, Play. Sounds simple enough! And it’s the backbone behind the National Academy of Athletics tremendous youth sports camp success. When Aaron Locks set out to build the sports camp behemoth, he asked himself and his staff “visionary” questions – among them, “how to train young athletes”? As... Read more
You play the game to win- at least that’s what most people think, right?
Camps & ClinicsLEVELUP INSIDERS March 27, 2018 0
Winning Isn’t Everything. Wait. What? What I have learned over many years as the founder of the National Academy of Athletics, as an adult who plays sports, a father of two kids who play sports and a child who grew up playing sports, is that it is actually more... Read more