Post Game Meeting Tips?

Cannonball · Jan 30, 2010

Sluggers, THAT IS AN OUTSTANDING POST! You are so right. We all need to be true to ourselves! I believe, as you said, that if someone tries to do something that that they aren't comfortable with or don't believe in, the kids will know. Again, GREAT POST! Also, you are right about the length. In my scenerio, we aren't there to keep them a long time. Just there enough to wrap up a few things and compliment each other. Also, try to have some fun.

rowdy · Feb 20, 2010

Wow, quite a few differing opinions on this one. I like to meet with the girls after each game to recap and prepare. Give a summary of the game and instructions for the next game, such as what time to be back at the field. We do invite our parents to all team meetings outside the game but if you don't have mature, responsible parents you may want to exclude them. They don't participate but they are more than welcome to hear my opinions when it comes to their daughters.

Amy in AZ. · Feb 20, 2010

The only thing I have to add, is if we played really lousy - I just tell them to go home. I say that there is nothing we can do about it, now.

Also, I always give my after game talks in front of the parents, so nothing I say gets misinterpreted.

absdad · Feb 22, 2010

My dd's previous coach, would have his post game talk with the parents a few feet back. Hearing, but not "involved". Individual accomplishments were called out, or if a girl really showed an improvement. Bad things were discussed in general terms, noone singled out. If a girl botched a play, she knows it. No use in making her feel bad. He put it in terms that it was something to learn from, and to work towards not repeating. He spoke well with the girls, and spoke in an easy tone. It was the same talk whether they won by run rule, or lost badly. The girls really respected him, because he was sincere with them.

mtnbama · Mar 1, 2010

On the parent's participating/listening in, I don't really keep them away, but I don't really try to include them EXCEPT at the end of a weekend. After the last game of the weekend, regardless, after we have had our team talk, I always get all the parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts -- whoever was there at the end of the last game, to gather round. I'll cover some of the same things I covered with the team, thank them for coming out and supporting us, and keeping it positive. We always do a prayer at the end of practices, etc. but at the end of the weekend, everybody joins in and holds hands and we pray together, then we get everyone in to do our "1, 2, 3" cheer.

I just think it helps bond the parents and the team together at the end of a long weekend.

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