No More Broken Eggs: A Guide to Optimizing the Sports Experience for Athletes, Coaches, Parents, and Clinicians

Morin, Tom/ Biondi, Matt (Foreward By)

ISBN 10: 1592991777 / ISBN 13: 9781592991778

Published by Inkwater Pr, 2006

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245 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 1592991777

Bibliographic Details

• Title: No More Broken Eggs: A Guide to Optimizing the Sports Experience for Athletes, Coaches, Parents, and Clinicians
• Publisher: Inkwater Pr
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592991777
• ISBN 13: 9781592991778
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.39 kilograms

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Synopsis

Here in the United States we are often too focused on how good our kids are in sports by the time they are twelve. Many young kids never find out how good an athlete they could have been because by the time they are sixteen years old the pressure on them over the years burns them out. They end up being "broken eggs." Drawing on his years of experience as a coach (he was Matt Biondi's personal coach at the 1992 Olympics) and in sport psychology, Tom Morin focuses on what we need to do to nurture young athletes, not burn them out. The book includes nine case study chapters devoted to athletes in a wide variety of sports as well as chapters filled with tips and guidelines specifically directed at athletes, parents, coaches, and clinicians.

About the Author

Tom Morin, MFT (Marriage Family Therapist), is a psychotherapist in private practive in Oakland and Marin County, California. He teaches Intro to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology at Chabot College in Hayward, California. He also teaches a Counseling Skills class in the Sport Psychology Program at John F. Kennedy's Graduate School of Psychology in Pleasant Hill, California. Tom is on the staff at MPI, a chemical dependency treatment program in Oakland, California. A former swim coach, Tom was Matt Biondi's personal coach for the 1992 Olympic Games.