PARENTS
Everyone knows—including college coaches—when you’re running your athlete’s X account and creating their videos.
You think you’re helping, but you’re actually hurting the player.
More often than not, when this happens, the athlete struggles to perform in games. Why? Because everything has been done for them—they haven’t learned how to figure things out on their own.
Let your athlete take accountability and ownership of her process. Let her make mistakes when no one’s watching. That’s where growth happens.
College coaches are recruiting the player, not the parent. If you’re the one sending emails, DMs, and managing everything, congratulations—the coach just recruited you. And when the athlete gets to campus and isn’t the person they thought they were recruiting, it usually doesn’t end well… and often leads to transferring.
And for parents who say their athlete “doesn’t have time”—what do you think she’ll do when she gets to college?
Also, check the screen time. There’s almost always 30 minutes in there somewhere.