In the fall of 2021, I decided to write a book about my experience coaching girls basketball - a cautionary tale about the real dangers of losing good coaches as entitled parents put their children above team, organization, and even truth.
I wrote, edited, art-directed, and self-published the book with help from a great copyeditor and designer. After I finished the print edition, I booked studio time to record, edit, and release the audiobook version. That version is available on Amazon and Spotify.
From the Amazon book description:
"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist.
This is a must-read cautionary tale for any parents with kids in youth sports or any adult considering coaching children.
We have a coaching crisis in this country. Because of the parents with unrealistic assessments of how much more important their kids are to their teams or just how good (or not) their children are, coaches are putting their personal and professional reputations on the line when they coach a team for these parents: And the risks are starting to outweigh the rewards.
”Nothing Ruins Youth Sports Like Adults” is the unfortunately very true and accurate story of Coach Carlos, a once-in-a-lifetime, well-loved, and wildly successful high school girls’ basketball coach in the Pacific Northwest whose reputation was unfairly destroyed by a parent whose daughter was cut due to grades and a school district who didn't attempt to stop him.
Written by a parent who documented everything over the three years Carlos coached the high school team, this book captures every available detail of all the lies and misinformation used by one parent as he ensnared another parent and used six sophomore girls to ultimately achieve his goal of getting rid of the coach who cut his daughter.