Coach Mike

03/01/2026

Greg Olsen’s advice? If a coach ever tells you to only play their sport… run 🚩🚩🚩

12/16/2025

We need more of this messaging…

I love being a dad more than I’ll ever be able to orate.
This is my son after a bloody war of a wrestling match tonight.
Real talk he’s been hating wrestling this year. He’s 15 and in his head about a lot of stuff, trying to figure out a lot of things and he flat out didn’t want to wrestle. I told him he didn’t have to wrestle but he had to get a job instead by a certain date and he didn’t, so as a man of his word he wrestled.
It’s been a mental battle for him. I’ve been watching him and working to be a supportive but encouraging dad. To hold space for him but to push him. This morning he got pinned and I could feel His frustration. I could see it in his energy. He was mad and dejected. So after his match we had a chat. I told him as I’ve told him many times that it’s in the deep water a man is forged. It’s in the pain that the strength is found and it’s only the hottest fires that make the strongest weapons. I told him earlier today that inside of him was a savage, a literal raging lunatic and that’s who needed to show up in the next match. I told him to imagine that this match determined if his family literally lived or died. I had him close his eyes and visualize winning, to visualize this savage inside him.
Right before he got on the mat tonight I grabbed his face and told him “I love you, now go be violent.”
He went 3 rounds, bloodied his opponent and came off the matt with the victory and blood pouring out of his mouth.
I was emotional. I was choked up because I saw the savage. I saw the man who overcame the frustration and fear and the man who will walk into life and not succumb to mediocrity and pain.
Life isn’t “fair.” Life isn’t easy. Life wants to kill you and beat you down at every turn and tonight I saw my son dig into that place in your soul that most humans run from and avoid. I saw in his eyes the savage gladiator who will find peace in the storm and who won’t run from the fear or pain.
I love my children. I love them deeply. They are woven in my heart and I ask God every day to give me the strength and insight to lead them. Tonight was a special experience I will never forget. I pray he never forgets this.
👊🏼 via: Sean Whalen

09/12/2025

08/17/2025

Want to guarantee your kid PT on any team they are on in any sport? Teach them to be THIS!

07/09/2025

The system is broken.

Coaches say, 'I love multi-sport kids.' Then they schedule mandatory fall practices that conflict with football. They hold winter workouts that conflict with basketball.

They preach athleticism, then punish kids for developing it elsewhere by threatening their playing time or their spot on the roster.

We need programs that support the whole athlete, not just the baseball player. It's time to let kids be athletes again.

07/05/2025

Adults are 99.99% of the problem…
Do your athlete a favor and LEAD BY EXAMPLE

06/19/2025

Baseball Coaching advice:

We know this game is hard. Even the best in the world aren’t perfect. They make errors, walk batters, strike out, hit into double plays, make mental mistakes and go through slumps.

In a game of failure, negativity and self doubt, be someone for your players who helps them work through and deal with the bad. It’s easy to point out everything they are doing wrong but we need to always be looking for things to compliment them on. Some days are easier than others but if you pay attention, you can find something.

For individual and team success they need confidence. Without it even the most talented will fall.

Develop a roster of DOGS who play for each other. They aren’t perfect (just like we weren’t as players or now as coaches) but let’s try to give them all the tools they need to compete at their best.

-from our friends at “baseball dudes”

06/17/2025

💯

05/25/2025

Facts!

05/20/2025

Tuesday tip… Be gritty. Fight for every blade of grass. Coaches love a player with GRIT! Win the small moments, even when it’s not going your way… win at EVERYTHING!

05/20/2025

Coaches, the good ones, agonize and stress over if they’ve done enough for their team and players to be successful! Oftentimes this goes well beyond their sport…
Tip of the cap to all you Coaches out there!