Sportstars
Rising Capital: D’Marcus Ross Leads Potent Capital Christian
With Perhaps Sacramento’s Best Two-Way Player Running The Show, Capital Christian Football Eyes A Deep Postseason Run • Needing just six carries Friday night, senior tailback D’Marcus Ross led a potent Capital Christian-Sacramento offensive onslaught as he reached the end zone three times en route to a 56-13 shellacking... Read more
Put Your Mind to Something and There’s No Stopping You
Last week I started off my blog with a series of questions. This week I have only one. What do you want? Behaviorists, psychologists and those scholars who study human behavior have said that when you put your mind to something, there is nothing that will stop you from getting... Read more
Life Lesson, Parent of Athletes: Keep Perspective
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
Liberty Football Jr. Jay Butterfield Named SportStar of the Week
Liberty-Brentwood – Football – Junior Liberty Football Jr. Jay Butterfield, considered the East Bay’s top national recruit for the Class of 2020, the Lions quarterback is off to a stellar junior campaign. On Sept. 7, he had his most prolific night of the season to date. He completed 16... Read more
Prepare in the Weight Room for What Happens on Field
RESISTENCE With this season starting, something is happening for those players out there banging around. It’s time to prepare in the weight room for what going to happens on the field. We’re finally into football season! If you’re like me, you pretty much set your year around this season.... Read more
Ideal Level of Intensity to Achieve Optimum Performance
Unlocking Your Combination The idea of readiness in sports can be a tricky thing. The myth of needing to get fired up for most athletes is just that, a myth. Every sport has its own unique intensity requirements (think hitting a golf ball vs. playing offensive line in football)... Read more
Jay Butterfield, Liberty Football SportStar of the Week
Considered the East Bay’s top national recruit for the Class of 2020, Jay Butterfield, the Lions quarterback is off to a stellar junior campaign, earning him SportStar of the Week honors. On Sept. 7, he had his most prolific night of the season to date. He completed 16 of... Read more
How To Gain Total Physiological Control
If you’ve watched my previous videos (four of them so far), you know more than probably 90% of all parent-coaches about controlling ones mind for optimum sports performance. This is not an exaggeration. You would be shocked to learn (as I have) how little coaches know about the human mind as it relates... Read more
Bay Area Stars Make Synchro Senior National Squad
Hooray for USA, says four-time Olympic medalist and Sr. Synchronized Swim coach, Andrea Fuentes! Two Bay Area stars were named today to the synchro Senior National squad. Leane Capdeville (who hails from Nantes, France and now lives in Berkeley) and Nicole Goot, Santa Clara Aquamaids were named by USA Synchro to... Read more
Megan Trottier: Woodland Christian Volleyball’s Hitmaker
Woodland Christian Senior Knows How To Rock & Roll — And She May Just Be The State’s Best Small-School Volleyball Player • The Boots Randolph blooper anthem “Yakety Sax” would have aptly narrated a Woodland Christian dig this preseason in the third set of a sweep of Bradshaw Christian-Sacramento.... Read more
Behind the Clipboard: Coaching is Teaching, Really.
When Slow Is The Way To Go! R.G. of San Jose asks, “We have a young coach for our position group, and he’s really smart, but he talks really fast and tells us a lot in a hurry. He’s always rushed because he says he has so much to... Read more
NorCal Volleyball: 50+ High School Players to Watch
2018 NorCal Players To Watch Served by NCVA HITTERS Sofia Aguilera, California-San Ramon, Jr. | KEY 2017 STATS: 293 kills, 284 digs Julia Cabri, Archbishop Mitty-San Jose, Jr. | KEY 2017 STATS: 120 kills, 99 blocks Zippy Dudziak, Berean Christian-Walnut Creek, Sr. | KEY 2017 STATS: 532 kills, the... Read more