Youth Sports Insider

Hear directly from the youth sports forward-thinkers turning sideline hours into real growth opportunities.

Youth Sports Insider is a sports podcast hosted by Coaching Youth Hoops, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Youth Sports Insider

  Ep 30 Is a 90 minute drive to practice too much?

  Aug 20, 20268 min

  https://heysammi.com/  how far is too far to drive for youth sports? a mom in chicago wrote to me about her family's routine: 90 minutes each way, three times a week, with her husband saying it's too much and her saying it's what their daughter needs. in this episode i do the math out loud, nine hours a week, a part-time job spent watching taillights, and then interrogate the sentence doing all the work: it's what she needs. needs for what, exactly? i walk through the questions that actually settle it. is this truly the only place she can develop, or just the best-known option? what is the drive costing in sleep, homework, siblings, and marriage? and what's happening in the car for those three hours, because a drive can be the relationship or two silent phones and a kid asleep on the window. then the middle path the far club will never suggest: a one-season experiment closer to home, with a review date, so the decision gets made with data from your own family instead of a brochure. plus the two voices missing from the argument, the sibling in the back seat and the daughter herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Ep 29 Should i say something to the parents who brag nonstop?

  Aug 19, 20267 min

  https://heysammi.com/  how do you deal with sports parents who brag constantly? a dad in san diego wrote to me because one family's highlight reels and stat updates have become the soundtrack of the season, and his son has started measuring himself with somebody else's ruler. in this episode i save him an awkward parking lot conversation: you don't confront them, because nobody in the history of bleachers has ever taken that note well. instead i explain what bragging usually is, anxiety wearing a varsity jacket, and why hearing it that way changes everything. then the real work, which happens at your dinner table: the question that lets your kid decode the bragging himself, why a kid who figures it out owns the immunity forever, and the one boring sentence, cool man, that makes him unprovokable on the field. i also cover quiet pride, telling your kid what you love about how he plays with no audience, the one exception where you do go to the coach, and the surprising person to keep an eye on: the bragged-about kid himself, who's carrying the trophy-cabinet weight nobody sees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Ep 28 We missed a tournament for vacation. now my kid is benched.

  Aug 18, 20267 min

  https://heysammi.com/  should a family skip a mandatory youth sports tournament for vacation? a dad in kansas city wrote to me after doing exactly that, and now his son's minutes have vanished and nobody will say why. in this episode i answer his question directly: no, you didn't make the wrong call. a family vacation beats a youth tournament, and it's not close. then the harder part, the silent benching. i explain the difference between a coach holding kids accountable and a coach running punishment theater, and give you the exact script for the conversation: calm, midweek, factual, ending with one question. what does the path back look like? a decent coach gives you something transparent and finite. vagueness and an endless freeze tell you what the program really is. i also cover what your son needs while this plays out: a dad who isn't sorry, the truth sized for a kid, and the only response that works when the weather is unfair. show up, work like crazy, and make the bench decision embarrassing. plus why you keep the circle small instead of polling the bleachers, and the end-of-season audit that decides whether you re-register. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Ep 27 My kid's teammate got recruited at 14. is mine behind?

  Aug 13, 20268 min

  https://heysammi.com/  is my child behind if teammates are already getting recruited? a mom in raleigh wrote to me after her daughter watched a 14 year old teammate commit, and now her daughter is doing math in her head that nobody assigned her. in this episode i explain what early commitments actually are, mostly informal, often reversed, and always marketed, and why the recruiting timeline keeps creeping earlier. i take apart the word behind, because it collapses under one question: behind on what schedule? real rosters are full of late bloomers who got serious at sixteen and passed the early stars. then the practical part: why reassurance bounces off a fourteen year old but evidence doesn't, and how to build the only comparison that matters, her versus her from six months ago. i also get into the recruiting feed itself, a slot machine for teenage self-doubt, the house rules that keep comparison from moving in, and the small move with a long reach: helping her congratulate the teammate for real. plus what the work at fourteen actually is if she does want to play in college. exposure finds prepared players, not the other way around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Ep 26 What if the other sports parents are way more intense than us?

  Aug 12, 20267 min

  https://heysammi.com/  is it normal to feel out of place among intense sports parents? a mom in austin wrote to me because her family feels like the odd one out on a team where parents film warmups and talk college timelines about fourth graders. in this episode i split her question in two, because is this the wrong team for us and is this the wrong team for her can have completely different answers. i explain how to tell a team problem from a bleacher problem by watching your kid instead of the parents, why the kid culture and the parent culture aren't always the same weather, and the cheap solutions for surviving an unbearable sideline. then the warning signs that intensity is leaking onto the field: kids quoting rankings, talking about falling behind, and breathing adult anxiety. i also cover the pull nobody names, the way watching other families spend more and drive further starts to feel like the standard. it isn't. it's just the loudest option. orange slices, one practice a week, and free sundays is not falling behind. it's a childhood, and somebody in that league should get to have one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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