Talented players alone cannot carry a team

We’ve seen the professional examples: a professional team recruits one of the best players from another team or the draft expecting a big turnaround resulting in a winning season or championship however results fail to materialize even with the star player posting great statistics.

Team sports are just that-TEAM

Here are 3 reasons team sports help youth grow to success-

  • Every player has a skill set that benefits the team. Are the student athletes being trained to use their best skills to benefit the team outcome and learn from mistakes? Practice is where we can push to discover areas that need improvement and mistakes cost little. Helping players identify their strengths and coaching them to let other players with different skills add to the end result allows kids to learn the value of each persons’ skills.
  • No set, inning, half or game is lost by one player. Observing a soccer team get upset with the goalie for allowing a goal, the coach asked  “How did the ball get all the way to the goalie in the first place?” The players sheepishly looked at the ground and one answered “the ball got past me too, Coach”. All the players looked at each other realizing the obvious. We are all in this together.
  • Focusing on other players with encouragement can lift a player and a team. Working together to overcome adversity is God given. Jesus didn’t send out the one but the two. Teamwork applies in every area of our lives-husband and wife, siblings, family, small group, church family and wage earning work. These are all teams with a goal.
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