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COMMITMENT
LESSON: Junior Failures or Parental Failures?
Mrs. Azoula brought her 13-year-old daughter Erin down from Los Angeles for an evaluation. She and her husband shared an interesting opinion regarding sports development. They believed Erin should be doing everything for herself because it was her dream. They would pay for one private lesson a week and the rest was up to Erin. They then became very frustrated when Erin began falling drastically behind the rest of the junior high players.
As our session got underway, we discussed the job description of the parents of athletic royalty. Mrs. Azoula was quick to realize that her daughter’s failures were actually parental failures.
Developing an NCAA D-1 athlete takes the full-time commitment of a primary parent to manage the entourage of coaches, trainers, schedules, equipment, practice partners and logistics. No child becomes top in their field without help. Worldly examples include Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Maria Sharapova, Michelangelo, Mozart, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Rory McIlroy, Taylor Swift and Andre Agassi. The secret behind most phenoms is a full-time parental figure. High-performance success requires a developmental plan managed by a primary parent and/or a hired expert.
“Commit to the fact that practice doesn’t always make perfect, but deliberate
customized practice makes excellence.”
