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A coach can never make a great player of a youngster who isn’t potentially great. But a coach can make a great competitor out of any child.
And miraculously, coaches can make adults out of children.
For a coach, the final score doesn’t read so many points for my team; so many points for theirs. Instead it reads: So many men and women out of so many boys and girls.
And this is a score that is never published. And this is a score that coaches read to themselves, and in which they find real joy . . .
When the last game is over.
At one point during a youth hockey game, the coach took one of his 10 year-old hockey players aside on the bench and asked:
“Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?”
The little boy nodded in the affirmative.
“Do you understand that what matters is whether we win or lose together as a team?”
The little boy nodded yes.
“I’m sure you know that when a penalty is called, you shouldn’t argue, curse, attack the referee, or call him an idiot.
“Do you understand all that?”
Again the little boy nodded.
The coach continued: “And when I take you out of the game so another boy gets a chance to play, it’s not good sportsmanship to call your coach ‘a dumb moron’ is it?”
Again the little boy nodded.
“Good,” said the coach.
“Now, go over there and explain all that to your parents.”
Just a few quick announcements. First off, DCYHA wanted me to remind everyone that registration for the upcoming youth hockey season is tonight at the South Davis Recreation Center.
DCYHA provides house teams and travel teams for boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 15 years old.
REGISTRATION is set for Thursday, September 4th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. We will meet upstairs in Meeting Room B at the SDRC.
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