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Balance Sports Publishing is the proud publishing partner of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA)— working   together to create the most relevant, inspiring, and practical youth and high school sports books available. Our featured author is  Jim Thompson, PCA’s founder and one of the country’s preeminent youth sports experts.

The High School Sports Parent: Developing Triple-Impact Competitors
Authored by Jim Thompson


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Learning to compete in high school sports is a big transition for youth athletes and is often perplexing for parents. Thompson provides guidance and practical tools to show parents how to support their teens’ growing self-reliance and help them become a “Triple-Impact Competitor” who makes himself, his teammates, and the game better.

Retail: $10.95, Discount pricing offered

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Learn how to Customize The High School Sports Parent for your organization!

Positive Sports Parenting: How "Second-Goal" Parents Raise Winners in Life Through Sports
Authored by Jim Thompson


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Thompson, one of the preeminent experts on youth sports, provides insightful and sensible advice on how parents can help children get the most from sports. The author reminds parents to worry less about winning and focus on the “Second-Goal” of using sports to teach life lessons.

Retail: $10.95, Discount pricing offered

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Learn how to Customize Positive Sports Parenting for your organization!

Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports
Authored by Jim Thompson


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A coaching education classic. Virtually every important aspect of coaching—goal-setting, building character, learning from mistakes, planning practices, coaching during a game, handling parents, developing competitors, turning individuals into a team, and others—is explored, all with an emphasis on motivating and inspiring athletes through positive coaching methods.

Retail: $19.95

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Positive Coaching in a Nutshell
Authored by Jim Thompson


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A distilled rendition of the coaching classic Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports, this streamlined volume makes the wisdom and inspiration of Positive Coaching accessible in bite-size tips, tools, and techniques. A must-have resource for any youth sports coach.

Retail: $9.95, Discount pricing offered

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Learn how to Customize Positive Coaching in a Nutshell for your organization!

Shooting in the Dark: Tales of Coaching and Leadership
Authored by Jim Thompson


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In this engaging memoir, Thompson, the founder of Positive Coaching Alliance, chronicles his experience as a high school coach and reflects on the universal challenges all coaches face: getting players to enjoy working hard, building a positive team culture, dealing with rebellious players, handling angry parents, managing his own insecurities, and much more.

Retail: $18.95

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The Double-Goal Coach   (published by Harper-Collins)
Authored by Jim Thompson


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Introducing the notion that youth and high school coaches should be “Double-Goal” focused — striving to win and teaching life lessons through sports — Thompson provides a host of concrete positive coaching tools for honoring the game and developing winners in sports and life.

Retail: $14.95

Order Now

Balance Sports Publishing is the proud publishing partner of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA)— working   together to create the most relevant, inspiring, and practical youth and high school sports books available. Our featured author is  Jim Thompson, PCA’s founder and one of the country’s preeminent youth sports experts.

The High School Sports Parent: Developing Triple-Impact Competitors
Authored by Jim Thompson


click for more info

Learning to compete in high school sports is a big transition for youth athletes and is often perplexing for parents. Thompson provides guidance and practical tools to show parents how to support their teens’ growing self-reliance and help them become a “Triple-Impact Competitor” who makes himself, his teammates, and the game better.

Retail: $10.95, Discount pricing offered

Order Now

Learn how to Customize The High School Sports Parent for your organization!

Positive Sports Parenting: How "Second-Goal" Parents Raise Winners in Life Through Sports
Authored by Jim Thompson


click for more info

Thompson, one of the preeminent experts on youth sports, provides insightful and sensible advice on how parents can help children get the most from sports. The author reminds parents to worry less about winning and focus on the “Second-Goal” of using sports to teach life lessons.

Retail: $10.95, Discount pricing offered

Order Now

Learn how to Customize Positive Sports Parenting for your organization!

Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports
Authored by Jim Thompson


click for more info

A coaching education classic. Virtually every important aspect of coaching—goal-setting, building character, learning from mistakes, planning practices, coaching during a game, handling parents, developing competitors, turning individuals into a team, and others—is explored, all with an emphasis on motivating and inspiring athletes through positive coaching methods.

Retail: $19.95

Order Now

Positive Coaching in a Nutshell
Authored by Jim Thompson


click for more info
A distilled rendition of the coaching classic Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports, this streamlined volume makes the wisdom and inspiration of Positive Coaching accessible in bite-size tips, tools, and techniques. A must-have resource for any youth sports coach.

Retail: $9.95, Discount pricing offered

Order Now

Learn how to Customize Positive Coaching in a Nutshell for your organization!

Shooting in the Dark: Tales of Coaching and Leadership
Authored by Jim Thompson


click for more info

In this engaging memoir, Thompson, the founder of Positive Coaching Alliance, chronicles his experience as a high school coach and reflects on the universal challenges all coaches face: getting players to enjoy working hard, building a positive team culture, dealing with rebellious players, handling angry parents, managing his own insecurities, and much more.

Retail: $18.95

Order Now

The Double-Goal Coach   (published by Harper-Collins)
Authored by Jim Thompson


click for more info

Introducing the notion that youth and high school coaches should be “Double-Goal” focused — striving to win and teaching life lessons through sports — Thompson provides a host of concrete positive coaching tools for honoring the game and developing winners in sports and life.

Retail: $14.95

Order Now



 



 

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