Ten Things That Will Keep a Youth League Coach up at Night

Coaching kids is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. That said, following are ten events (for better or worse) that will make a coach do more than just shake his head.

 

1. A boy’s first hit in a baseball game. We’re not talking t-ball, baseball.

2. Girls with long hair showing up to soccer practice without a ponytail, braids etc.

3. Even worse, the dreaded “Sillybandz."

4. Kids running cross country on trails …in “Crocs.”

5. Having six assistant coaches for a five and six year old baseball team and one assistant coach for a seven and eight year old softball team.

6. Watching a girl throw like a boy.

7. Telling a player to run to second base while the second baseman is waiting with the baseball. That’s a helpless feeling. What’s more helpless? When it is your kid.

8. Getting called “Dude” by a seven year old.

9. Watching the first spiral or made free throw.

 10. Winning a game that you never thought was possible.
 To repeat my favorite line from The Untouchables: “Somethings we laugh because there funny, Somethings we laugh because there true.