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2012 Edition Issue 08 Newsletter

Inside this issue Swimming: 6 Congrats to asca Member coaches: First Athlete at Culture Matters the olympic trials

By Alan Abrahamson 8 2012

3 Wire Sports 10 Thank you: Advocacy

11 Increase your OMAHA – had just come off a dominating win in the coaching power 100 backstroke here at the U.S. swim Trials. It was late at night. He By Tim Elson was walking across the bridge that connects CenturyLink Arena to the Hilton Omaha and he was walking slowly, very slowly, because about every 10 feet a gaggle of girls was asking for autographs and photos. 12 Bluegrass Mountain conference He was signing and posing and he could not have been more launches website gracious, even when the girls gave way to a grown man who asked if he would pose for a photo with a glued to a popsicle-stick of his 13 2012 Olympic Team List hometown orthodontist, apparently a swim dad. Whatever.

Grevers posed for the photo and the guy gushed, 15 A Field Guide to “Matt, you just saved me two-thousand bucks!” the Middle-class U.S. Family “It’s a big family,” Grevers would say later. By Shirley S. Wang “Everyone wants everyone to do well.”

Every sport has its culture. A reason, perhaps the key 18 Olympic Games Quotes reason, for USA Swimming’s ongoing success at the Summer Olympics – and why the team that’s being put together 25 A Chance to be here at the Trials is expected to continue that run in just a hero everyday a few weeks in London – is its underlying culture. By John Leonard It’s no accident. It starts early, when kids start at their clubs in their towns, and it carries all the way 26 wise words from through and to the national and Olympic teams. New Zealand By Horst Miehe Just one example of swim culture, and how it contrasts with track and field, which of course will be one of the other 27 Being on the team marquee sports in just a few weeks at the Games: vs. being a teammate By Joe Ehrmann ASCA Newsletter Official ASCA Sponsors Published for the American Swimming Coaches Association by the American Swimming Coaches Council for Sport Development.

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In the women’s 200-meter now in wide circulation through stimulus? Plus, the only way to heats here Friday a program launched by the U.S. get better is to work harder.” morning, 14-year-old Allie Mint in 1999 – they’re no good. Szekely and 20-year-old Gisselle On top of which, as everyone Kohoyda tied for 17th in 2:30.28. Chuck Wielgus, executive in the sport’s elite echelons director of USA Swimming, understand well, the best way to A marked element of the said he believes it’s his No. 1 produce Olympic-caliber stars is swim culture is that swimmers priority – more than fund- to develop an aerobic base in a are expected to be tough. About raising, organizational charts, young athlete before he or she hits an hour later, after the heats anything – to work at culture. puberty – the best example being of the men’s 200 individual , who was essentially medley, they held a swim-off On the blocks, swimming a miler as a youngster in Baltimore to determine who would be the is the most important thing. before he started sprinting. first alternate for Friday night’s Off – no. It’s understood that semifinals in the women’s 200 there’s a distinct difference The thing is, as young swimmers breaststroke; with the crowd between who the person is as a grow up in the sport, they are roaring, Allie won, in 2:30.03. swimmer and who he or she is as inevitably on clubs or teams. And a person. Moreover, the culture there’s a lot of waiting around To be clear: she went in USA Swimming is to embrace together at meets for heats or faster in the swim-off than accountability and responsibility finals. That builds camaraderie. she had in the heat itself. and, whether winning or losing, to be humble and gracious. That group sense thoroughly Afterward, she signed informs the national autographs and said it No one is perfect, of course, and Olympic teams. was “awesome.” and there are obviously expectations and mistakes. Call it corny but there Compare: in track and field, But that’s the culture. are rookie skits and karaoke the dead-heat in the women’s 100 and team-building exercises meters last Saturday in Eugene, “You can’t manufacture that everyone buys into. Ore., is still a dead-heat. it,” Wielgus said. “It has to be ingrained.” At the world championships The two athletes involved in the last year in Shanghai, , 100-meter tie at the track Trials, He also said, “At the very end, the national team director, was Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh, it can be that extra little shot a rookie. He had for the prior are also competing in the 200 of energy, that extra hundredth 22 years been the coach at the meters. After competing through of a second that can make a University of Arizona. But he the early rounds of the 200, both difference. This, all of it – it’s was new to the national team have been escorted through what’s more than just about you.” post and therefore a rookie. called the “mixed zone,” where athletes meet reporters, with no It’s all the more remarkable that Culture is culture. At the pre- comment. Both have declined to it is ingrained because, obviously, Shanghai training camp, he got speak with television crews as well. swimming is an individual thing. up before the team and belted out But what USA Swimming has done his version of Bon Jovi’s “Liven’ The track dead-heat has is make it a team thing, too. on a Prayer.” At the time, he dissolved into something of a was 60 years old and, as he said farce. While the protocol that has Swimming is hard. Not to with a laugh, “They looked at me been instituted since the tie calls say other sports aren’t. But, as like I was from outer space.” for either a run-off or a coin-flip, Eddie Reese, the longtime coach the coin-flip rules demand that at the University of Texas, said, , the 17-year-old the 25-cent piece to be used must “Nobody in their right mind picks Colorado sensation who is expected feature George Washington on one this. How exciting is it to do two to be a breakout star in London, side and an “Eagle” on the other. to four hours a day following a not only sang, she danced so well So the commemorative quarters black line at the bottom of a pool that, Busch said, “The kids on the honoring each of the 50 states, with no outside information or team, they were pulling their jaw which are of course legal tender and off the ground watching her.”

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Because Franklin will be an The way this also works In 2009, Phelps happened to Olympic rookie, she will have to is that the older athletes not be on vacation in Hawaii. The do something all over again at only are expected to give junior Pan Pacific championships the team’s training camp before back – they want to do so. were going on at the same time. London. Culture is culture. Phelps called Jack Roach, the Arianna Kukors, the 2009 world junior team national director, Besides the fun, there is a championship gold medalist in the and said, what can I do? serious element to it as well, which women’s 200 IM who qualified here everyone involved calls “the code.” to swim the event in London, said Roach said, please come on On international trips, there’s a she vividly remembers Summer over. Phelps did, and talked to the curfew, typically 10 or 11 p.m. No Sanders, who won four swimming teens at length about the honor of girls in boys’ rooms or vice-versa. medals, two gold, at the 1992 representing team and country. No tobacco or alcohol, not even for Barcelona Games, coming to a coaches when they are eating out. pool in the Seattle area – where At those world championships Kukors is from – to sign autographs in Rome in 2009, meanwhile, “I have never been on a trip when Arianna was just 10. , arguably the finest where there has been a problem,” backstroker of his generation, said Lindsay Mintenko, who “I never get tired of signing didn’t make the finals of the swam at the 2000 Sydney and autographs,” Kukors said. 100 back. He simply misjudged 2004 Athens Games, winning how fast he would have to three medals, two gold, and Even the biggest names go to make the last eight. is now the U.S. national gladly pitch in. team managing director. He didn’t whine. He didn’t complain. He said he would put it behind him, cheer for his teammates and get ready for his next race, the 200 back.

A few days later, right before he was getting ready to swim the 200 final, Peirsol turned to Roach, who on that trip was with the senior team.

“Jack, come here,” Peirsol said. He urged Roach to take a look around at the magnificent setting that was the Foro Italico – the olive trees, the red brick buildings, the noise and sound of 16,000 people.

“Let’s not forget what we are doing,” Peirsol said. “We may never experience this again as long as we live. Look at the sunset. Look at the trees. Look at the American flags. This is what it’s all about.

“I knew right then,” Roach said, “that Aaron was going to win a gold medal.”

Which Peirsol did. In world-record time. 

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Thank you advocacy

The ASCA Board Contributors: and Staff thanks the Kyle Almoney Michael Preuss following individuals who have made George Block Bill Roberts contributions to the Brace Family Darin Schaedel Advocacy Fund of the ASCA. Advocacy is Clinton Family Rob Sleamaker hard to pay for, hard Mel Han Stuart Smith to attribute success or failure to . . . as such, Elizabeth Heibel Ron Tsuchiya funding it is always Ron Johns Elaine Valdez a difficult decision. Thus, the belief of Ed Kelly Tiffany Yip these individuals Ed Kirk Joe Zemeitis and their financial Katherine Prindle We have also received commitment to Klein 21 donations from support our advocacy individuals and missions, is very Peter Malone organizations that much appreciated. Steve Morsilli wish to remain Thank you all! Xiang Hao Mu anonymous. We thank them also. Lyle Noordhoek Laurie Padgett John Leonard

10 ASCA Newsletter I 2012 Edition Issue 08 Increase Your Coaching Power

By Tim Elson

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2012 Edition Issue 08 I ASCA Newsletter 11 Bluegrass Mountain Conference Launches Website

SPARTANBURG, SC – The Charlotte Jeff Dugdale commented, the strength of the Bluegrass Bluegrass Mountain Conference, “The Bluegrass Mountain Mountain Conference will be a unique collegiate swimming Conference is unique in the fact well represented internationally, conference composed of 14 that it is coach run. Every program with seven conference athletes institutions from Georgia, has a vested interest and like competing at Team USA’s Olympic Kentucky, Maryland, North minded attitude to contribute to trials, and Marko Blazevski (Skopje, Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia an environment that produces fun, Macedonia) competing at London’s and West Virginia continues fast swimming. In a time were DI 2012 Summer Olympics for his its growth with the release of schools are dropping programs home nation of Macedonia. their new conference website. the country is seeing DII thrive with the addition of teams.” Corey White, the head swim With the entire conference being coach for Converse College, took coached run, it is quite remarkable The conference consists of 10 the opportunity to oversee the to a great extent the conference division II institutions, 3 Division development and release of the has developed and grown they III colleges, and 1 NAIA school for new conference website. White way it has. Established in 2000, a total of 14 women’s teams and has stated, “The primary goal of the conference has grown in size 13 men’s teams. This past season the website is to promote and and level of competitive play each saw the conference’s Division II aid the conference in reaching year since. The unique conference programs send a combined 12 it’s maximum potential, and provides an opportunity for women and 16 men to compete at raise the standard of swimming colleges in conferences lacking the national level, with 27 of the 28 throughout the region” White sees adequate Men’s and Women’s athletes scoring. The conference’s the website as just one indicator of Swimming & Diving programs to Division III programs had a total of the conference’s growing presence compete. The Bluegrass Mountain 10 women and 15 men competing in world of collegiate swimming. Conference offers swimmers at at their division’s nationals with these institutions full competitive 19 scoring at the meet. Finally, With its promising advances, seasons and the chance at team SCAD had 13 swimmers earn the Bluegrass Mountain Conference and individual conference honors. All-American honors at the has landed sponsorships from NAIA national championships Paddock Pool Equipment Co., Inc., Conference President and head with swimmers setting two Paddock Evacuator Company, and coach of Queens University of new national records. This year, Marriot hotels, ensuring that the conference continues to run the highest quality of competition meets for its swim programs. This past year Paddock introduced their new wedge blocks with hand rails “Every program has a vested into conference meets, making it one of a select few in collegiate interest and like minded attitude competition to have the latest to contribute to an environment FINA approved equipment.  The site can be viewed at that produces fun...” bluegrassmountainconference.com.

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USA – Following yesterday’s , , Ryan Ledecky, , , end of the 2012 USA Olympic Lochte, Matt McLean, Alex , , Trials, USA Swimming has Meyer, Tyler McGill, Michael , , Dana announced a 49-swimmer team Phelps, , Davis Vollmer, , for the 2012 Olympics. The total Tarwater, , Peter and . includes pool and open water Vanderkaay and Scott Weltxz. events, including relay-only Coaches (10): , swimmers. Team members are: Women (26): , Steve Bultman, David Marsh, , , Eddie Reese, Teri McKeever Men (25): , , , (women’s head), Tim Murphy , , , , (Open Water), , Todd Connor Dwyer, , Missy Franklin, , Schmitz, Gregg Troy (men’s , , , Kara Lynn head) and .  Matt Grevers, , Joyce, , Breeja , , Larson, , Katie

A Field Guide to the Middle-Class U.S. Family

By SHIRLEY S. WANG The Wall Street Journal

Anthropologist Elinor Ochs and vivo”—rather than in a lab, they footage ever since, scrutinizing her colleagues at the University hope to better grasp how families behavior, comments and even their of California, Los Angeles have with two working parents balance refrigerators’s contents for clues. studied family life as far away as child care, household duties and Samoa and the Peruvian Amazon career, and how this balance affects The families, recruited primarily region, but for the last decade they their health and well-being. through ads, owned their own have focused on a society closer to homes and had two or three home: the American middle class. The center, which also includes children, at least one of whom sociologists, psychologists and was between 7 and 12 years old. Why do American children archeologists, wants to understand About a third of the families had depend on their parents to do “what the middle class thought, at least one nonwhite member, things for them that they are felt and what they did,” says Dr. and two were headed by same-sex capable of doing for themselves? Ochs. The researchers plan to couples. Each family was filmed How do U.S. working parents’ publish two books this year on by two cameras and watched all views of “family time” affect their their work, and say they hope day by at least three observers. stress levels? These are just two the findings may help families of the questions that researchers become closer and healthier. Among the findings: The at UCLA’s Center on Everyday families had very a child-centered Lives of Families, or CELF, are Ten years ago, the UCLA team focus, which may help explain trying to answer in their work. recorded video for a week of nearly the “dependency dilemma” seen every moment at home in the lives among American middle-class By studying families at of 32 Southern California families. families, says Dr. Ochs. Parents home—or, as the scientists say, “in They have been picking apart the intend to develop their children’s independence, yet raise them to be relatively dependent, even when the kids have the skills to act on their own, she says. “Parents tended to describe a very In addition, these parents tended to have a very specific, prescribed way of being together” idealized way of thinking about family time, says Tami Kremer- Sadlik, a former CELF research — Dr. Kremer-Sadlik director who is now the director of programs for the division of social

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sciences at UCLA. These ideals Asking children to do a task led “The kids are oblivious to appeared to generate guilt when to much negotiation, and when their parents’ perspectives,” work intruded on family life, and parents asked, it sounded often says Dr. Ochs. left parents feeling pressured to like they were asking a favor, not create perfect time together. The making a demand, researchers The researchers theorize that researchers noted that the presence said. Parents interviewed about stems from a tendency in U.S. of the observers may have altered their behavior said it was often society to adapt to and focus some of the families’ behavior. too much trouble to ask. on the children, rather than teaching children to focus on How kids develop moral For instance, one exchange others. And, Americans tend responsibility is an area of focus caught on video shows an 8-year- to encourage children to pay for the researchers. Dr. Ochs, old named Ben sprawled out on a attention to objects more than who began her career in far-off couch near the front door, lifting faces, emphasizing colors and regions of the world studying the his white, high-top sneaker to his shapes, for instance, over people, concept of “baby talk,” noticed father, the shoe laced. “Dad, untie says Dr. Ochs. In Samoa, children that American children seemed my shoe,” he pleads. His father are expected to be attentive to relatively helpless compared says Ben needs to say “please.” others from a very young age, and with those in other cultures she parents stress focusing on facial and colleagues had observed. “Please untie my shoe,” says expressions, says Dr. Ochs. the child in an identical tone as In those cultures, young before. After his father hands Researchers are also examining children were expected to the shoe back to him, Ben says, how U.S. parents view family contribute substantially to the “Please put my shoe on and tie life and work. Parents tended community, says Dr. Ochs. Children it,” and his father obliges. to describe a “very prescribed in Samoa serve food to their elders, way of being together,” says waiting patiently in front of them Ben’s next words: “Please Dr. Kremer-Sadlik. before they eat, as shown in one get my coat from the closet.” video snippet. Another video Then his father says that They commonly used terms clip shows a girl around 5 years Ben should get it himself. like “family night,” “family of age in Peru’s Amazon region movie,” or “family breakfast,” “Isn’t that amazing?” says climbing a tall tree to harvest and it was understood that the Dr. Ochs. “It’s only after he papaya, and helping haul logs activity was meant to be child- escalates that the dad asks him thicker than her leg to stoke a fire. focused time and not include to do something for himself.” others outside the family. This By contrast, the U.S. videos same vision of “family time” It isn’t that the kids were unable showed Los Angeles parents wasn’t seen in Italian families, for to do the tasks or that their parents focusing more on the children, instance, the researchers found didn’t express a need for help, say using simplified talk with them, in work published in the journal the researchers. Rather, the studied doing most of the housework and Time and Society in 2007. children didn’t seem to view it intervening quickly when the kids as their routine responsibility to had trouble completing a task. This structured and idealized contribute, the researchers say. way of being together appears to In 22 of 30 families, children pressure parents to achieve these In about 75% of the families, frequently ignored or resisted moments and also avoid another the mothers came home first and appeals to help, according to a instances that might ruin it, began to “gyrate” through the study published in the journal like a child’s temper tantrum. house, bouncing between the kids Ethos in 2009. In the remaining and their homework, groceries, eight families, the children weren’t “We wanted to highlight to dinner and laundry, according to asked to do much. In some cases, parents that they have a lot of the group’s analysis published in the children routinely asked the other opportunities for this the Journal of Family Psychology parents to do tasks, like getting family time,” when they can feel in 2009. When the fathers came them silverware. “How am I united, supported and connected, home, 86% of the time at least one supposed to cut my food?” Dr. Ochs says Dr. Kremer-Sadlik.  child didn’t pay attention to him. recalls one girl asking her parents.

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Olympic Games Quotes

Here is our collection of quotes about the Olympic Games and quotes by Olympic athletes.

“The most important thing “One shouldn’t be afraid to - Jeff Fenech (Australian in the Olympic Games is not lose; this is sport. One day boxer, 1984 Summer winning but taking part; you win; another day you Olympics) the essential thing in life is lose. Of course, everyone not conquering but fighting wants to be the best. This is “For athletes, the Olympics well.” normal. This is what sport is are the ultimate test of their about. This is why I love it.” worth.” - Pierre de Coubertin (primarily responsible for - Oksana Baiul, Olympic Gold - Mary Lou Retton (American the revival of the Olympic Medalist gymnast, 1984 Summer Games in 1894) Olympics) “The Olympics remain the “All I’ve done is run fast. I most compelling search “My will to live completely don’t see why people should for excellence that exists overcame my desire to win” make much fuss about that.” in sport, and maybe in life itself.” - Hungarian Alfred Hajos, - Fanny Blankers-Koen winner of the first swimming (Dutch sprinter who won - Dawn Fraser (Australian gold medal. four gold medals at the 1948 swimmer, 3-time winner at Summer Olympics) the Olympics) “I Didn’t Set Out to Beat the World; I Just Set Out to Do “The Olympic Games were “There can be distractions, My Absolute Best.” created for the exhaltation but if you’re isolated from of the individual athlete.” the heart of the Games, - Al Oerter the Olympics become just - Pierre de Coubertin another competition.” “It has been said that the Opening Ceremony “The swimming and diving - Mary Lou Retton (American of the Olympic Games is were held in part of the gymnast, 1984 Summer something that an athlete old moat ... it was the Olympics) will remember for the rest clammiest, darkest place of their life. It is true. That and the water was frigid. “ “An Olympic medal is the moment when you walk into greatest achievement and the Olympic Stadium as part - Alice Landon, American honor that can be received of the Australian Olympic Diver, on facilities at the by an athlete. I would swap Team, is a moment that I will Antwerp Games of 1920 any World Title to have won never forget.” gold at the Olympics.”

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Olympic Games Quotes

- Jeff Fenech (Australian “Everything about the benefits to the athlete and boxer) Olympics was first class, inspiration to those lucky and women were treated as enough to witness the “If you don’t try to win athletes and equals.” athletic dedication.” you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s - Elizabeth Robinson - Herb Elliott (Australian back yard.” Schwartz middle-distance Runner)

- Jesse Owens (American “I still can’t believe I won “I run to be known as Athlete, 4 time Gold Medalist the Olympics. That’s what I the greatest runner, the in Track and Field at the 1936 feel right now - completely greatest of all time. I could Olympic Games, 1913-1980) alive as a human being. It’s a not eat or sleep for a week really beautiful moment. “ after I lost in the (1992) “The greatest memory for Olympics. I have to win or me of the 1984 Olympics - Clara Hughes die.” was not the individual honors, but standing on the “The Olympics are a - Noureddine Morceli podium with my teammates wonderful metaphor for (Algerian athlete from the to receive our team gold world cooperation, the kind 1996 Summer Olympics) medal.” of international competition that’s wholesome and “The six colours, including - Mitch Gaylord healthy, an interplay the white background, between countries that represent the colours of all “I wanted no part of politics. represents the best in all of the world’s flags ... this is a And I wasn’t in Berlin to us. “ true international emblem.” compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the - John Williams - Pierre de Coubertin Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned “There is something in “The Olympic Games are for long ago from Charles Riley, the Olympics, indefinable, the world and all nations the only victory that counts springing from the soul, that must be admitted to them.” is the one over yourself.” must be preserved.” - Pierre de Coubertin - Jesse Owens - Chris Brasher “Holding an Olympic Games “My only focus was the “To anyone who has started means evoking history.” Olympics because in my out on a long campaign sport, that is the ultimate. believing that the gold - Pierre de Coubertin Everything is geared toward medal was destined for him, that, and my entire life was the feeling when, all of a “The Olympic Games must geared around getting there sudden, the medal has gone not be an end in itself, and winning gold.” somewhere else is quite they must be a means of indescribable.” creating a vast programme - Cammi Granato of physical education and - Sebastian Coe (English sports competitions for all “At the Olympics, you there middle distance runner after young people.” to do a job. I feel you should losing the 800m final in take it seriously. You should 1980) - Avery Brundage (American be respectful. You are sports Administrator and putting on the red-white- “It is the inspiration of the President of the (IOC)) and-blue and going out there Olympic Games that drives to perform for your country.“ people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring - Shannon Miller lasting spiritual and moral

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24 ASCA Newsletter I 2012 Edition Issue 08 A Chance to Be A Hero Everyday

By John Leonard “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.”

essence of swim practice and the child learns to fail, pick themselves up, and try, try, try again until they “Everything we do for our succeed. Whether it’s an eight year old learning to dive off the starting children that they can do for block, or a 17 year old senior trying to complete that set of 100’s on themselves, makes them weaker.” 1:05, the opportunities for “hero development” are there. And if — Lynn Offerdahl, great swimming parent coaches don’t offer that, athletes in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. don’t accept the challenge and parents don’t support and applaud that, we’re not showing much confidence in our young people.

The days of 14 year old’s fighting One of the really sad trends what we thought was possible). off the Indians from Conestoga in America society is parental wagons crossing the great plains “concern” that removes adventure Contrast that with the are gone. So are the 50’s when and opportunity for growth from average child’s life today. many of us took off at dawn and American children’s lives. Yes, the might not return home until after In those days, we prepared every world is a different place from the dark, with many “adventures” to day for our future independent one I grew up in, and many other grow from every day, but we can lives. And then, we rarely if ever people, as well. In that world, we still go to practice, be completely came home after high school, were not constantly supervised responsible for our own success, and certainly never needed our by parents, and most often, were and challenge ourselves to parents to “support us” later pretty much totally unsupervised reach “hero status” every day. in life. (Ok, I know, we can all by adults for much of the summer point to exceptions to that…) And if you don’t practice and after school hours as well. and rehearse, you might really Today, not so much. We got cuts and bruises, we did be clueless when you face that real-world challenge that all “dangerous things” and looked One of the very best parts of young people and adults do out for one another. One of us swim practice is that EVERYDAY, face, from time to time. usually had a reasonable degree of you get to test your “Hero” sense, and rarely did anyone get capabilities. In every program in Heroes in practice prepare seriously injured, but we constantly the USA, the challenge can be that to be heros in life.  did “daring” things that helped you will “do something you have us understand the limits to our never done before” and “be a hero” ability (and we regularly exceeded in that growth. Challenge is the

2012 Edition Issue 08 I ASCA Newsletter 25 Wise Words from New Zealand

By Coach Horst Miehe New Zealand

Northland College (NZ) principal John Tapene not owe you a living, you owe the world something. has offered the following words from a judge who You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one regularly deals with youth… “Always we hear the cry will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again.” In from teenagers ‘What can we do, where can we go?’… other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out My answer is, “Go home, mow the lawn, wash the of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. sick, study your lessons, and after you’ve finished, read a You are important and you are needed. It’s too late to book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities sit around and wait for somebody to do something and your parents do not owe you fun. The world does someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you! 

26 ASCA Newsletter I 2012 Edition Issue 08 Being on the team benefits your personal goals and ambitions. Being a teammate benefits the goals and ambitions of your Being on the team and your teammates. Being on the team can make you a bystander. Teammates Team vs. Being intervene in the lives and actions of their teammates. a Teammate Being on the team involves personal effort. Being a teammate By joe Ehrmann involves the efforts of every player. Being on the team means doing what is asked of you. Being a teammate is doing whatever is needed for the team to succeed.

Being on the team can involve blaming others and making excuses. Being a teammate involves accepting responsibility, accountability, and ownership of the team’s problems.

Being on the team makes you “me-optic,” asking what’s in it for me? Being a teammate makes you “we-optic,” asking what’s in it for us?

Sometimes players on the team are drawn together by common interests; teammates are drawn together by a common mission.

Sometimes players on a team like one another; teammates respect one another.

Sometimes players on a team bond together because of a shared background or compatible personalities; teammates bond together because they recognize every player is needed to accomplish the goal of the team.

Sometimes players on a team are energized by emotions; teammates energize one another out of commitment. 

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