Amy Manson lives in Boulder, Colorado. She's an accomplished athlete, as well as a program manager for Positive Coaching Alliance. For the past 20 years she's also been a youth Track & Field coach. In this episode, Manson discusses the role her coaches had in her development, the Positive Coaching Alliance and its approach to training high school coaches, and the important lessons that parents should know about the student-athletes they live with. Highlights from the show include:
1:30 - Manson was a "good, but not great" athlete coming out of high school. She explains the impact that her youth, high school, and college coach had in helping her pursue her career as a runner when she could have easily walked away from the sport.
5:30 - Manson discusses what the purpose of a coach is. She employs an "assembly line" analogy that puts the role a coach plays in any athlete's time with that coach into perspective.
8:00 - Manson discusses "whole person" coaching and the impact on both the athlete and the coach.
9:45 - Manson discusses the poison that can spoil the water in a coach-athlete relationship, or in a parent-athlete relationship.
13:00 - Manson discusses how to avoid conflicts between parents and coaches over an athlete's role and performance.
14:30 - Research reveals much about the coach-athlete relationship that is intuitive. That same research, however, shows that what makes for a healthy parent-athlete relationship is counter-intuitive. Manson explains.
16:50 - Manson discusses the Positive Coaching Alliance, what it does, and the tools it teaches coaches and parents to do a better job of leading student-athletes.
20:30 - What makes a sports experience positive for a student-athlete? Manson discusses.
22:30 - If you bring PCA into your school, what can you expect? Manson walks us through what you can expect to learn.
27:15 - Manson discusses what it is like to work with a PCA "Double-Goal" coach.

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