Encourage Youth Football Players with Positive Feedback

Today on Youth Football Uniforms, we will be discussing about the importance of providing positive feedback to encourage our youth football players...

Youth football coaches must encourage players to feel good about their contributions

By Marty Gitlin
Special to PlaySportsTV
 
Every player on a youth football team should feel he is an important part of the team’s success, even though they might not share the same abilities and talents.
 
Longtime and highly successful coach Russ Jacques of the Strongsville High School football team, in Strongsville, Ohio, fully believes this coaching strategy.
 
Jacques understands that for younger kids to have the desire to continue competing in football, they must feel good about themselves. And they can’t feel good about themselves with a football inferiority complex.

“A coach has to feel his way around that situation,” Jacques says. “But every kid has to get some positive feedback. If he’s not the best player physically, maybe he can be the kid who leads calisthenics or the kid who gets a little head start on a relay race and wins that. You want him to go home at the end of the day and tell his Dad, ‘Hey, Dad, I was the guy that led calisthenics today!’  You have to be positive.”

 

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