Youth Sports in America: How Coaches Take The Fun Out Of It.

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This "coach" is all too typical in today's America.

Youth coaches who take themselves too seriously make sports a chore, not fun. Some of my best sports memories are the middle school basketball team that reached the town championship one winter. Our coach was a terrificly nice man who played everybody, and I remember that we, the players, were as shocked as anybody else that we won in the playoffs before losing in the finals. It was fun all season long to have everybody play, and a bonus that we did well in the playoffs.

Sports for kids are supposed to bring joy and camaraderie, not slavish devotion to a manaical father figure coach. It seems the twisted adults who are attracted to coaching youth teams are exactly the wrong kind of folks to bring out the best in kids.