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Free Coaching App Simplifies Team Communication

A free communication app, sportsYou is created specifically for the needs of coaches. It gives coaches the ability to privately communicate, schedule and share media with their team. With no character limits and the ability to send one-way messages, sportsYou is the most versatile communication ...

Journal, Marriage

Dear Coach, When You’re Losing

But I need you to know how much I love you when you are losing. I see you bring out the best you have to offer your athletes when you are losing.

Family, Friendship, Journal

Dear New School, It’s Me—The New Coach’s Wife

You don’t know me yet but you will! I’ll be the crazy blonde lady in the stands. The one who some days may look put together and other days … not so much.

Family, Journal

To Daddy’s Players, From the Coach’s Daughter

Always remember that I learn from the examples that I see. You are my first heroes and who I want to be when I grow up. Please set out large shoes for me to fill. I am counting on you.

Family, Journal, Marriage

I See You, Coach

I see you when you can’t tear your eyes away from your phone due to the twenty different conversations you’re having with players, parents, school officials. I see the hurt in your eyes when the first word our one-year-old son says to you is bye-bye because he’s so used to you leaving. I ...

Family, Journal

A Note to Our Past Players: The Things You Didn’t Know

So when you come home to visit your family, don’t forget to come visit ours too. If you’re passing our house on the way out of town and you think about pulling in the driveway, do it. That bonus room in the new house is being built with you boys in mind—a place where the boys can always gather. ...

Journal, Marriage

For Love of the Game … and For the Wife Not Feeling It

I share this story in hopes of being an encouragement. We all come from different backgrounds, have different interests and personalities. We know for a fact that being a coach's wife is tough much of the time, and that some of us adapt to it better than others.

Family, Journal, Marriage

Dear Husband, I’m With You Through the Hard Seasons

And I promise you, I'm in this thing, 100% – through all the wins, and all the losses. I'll take the grumpiness and the racing mind. I'll take the distractedness and the tired eyes. I'll take the long conversations about the same frustrations over and over again.

Friendship, Journal

I Resisted the Coach’s Wife Community for Years … This is Why I’m All In Now

For those of you who didn’t take this approach, you understand just how important other coaches' wives are, not only to your survival, but also to your flourishing. For those of you who maybe are doing what I did, I hope you realize you’re making the sacrifices whether you admit it or not. ...

Family, Journal, Marriage

I Found My Faith at a Baseball Field. Twice.

Then, on a Saturday in October, which started like any other day, I drove about an hour away with my mom to watch a couple of coach’s scrimmages. Because of the set up of the scrimmage, we were allowed to watch from the sidelines. And that’s where I finally learned the lesson that I was not in ...

Family, Journal, Resources

12 Tips for Surviving the Season with a Baby

Don't feel like you can't miss a game. Guilt about missing a game is a real thing. I get it. I hate missing a game too. Being a coaching family is our life, and I feel like I am not supporting my coach if I miss a game. Here's the thing though, sometimes it's just too much. Some days, you ...