Tag: basketball

If you’re a basketball coach or team manager, chances are you spend a lot of time dealing with organizational tasks like tracking player attendance, scheduling games and practices, wrangling volunteers,…

You may be the type of coach that can wing a practice on the spot. You may be the type of coach that plans everything from the 5 minute water…

Great basketball coaches have a combination of education, experience, and skill. For basketball coaches, there’s a skill in communication unlike other sports and that’s how to project in a loud…

Whether your youth basketball program is community-run, club, a competitive AAU program that travels the country, or a travel program, you likely depend on some management platform or organizer to make…

It wasn’t so long ago that basketball rims were boarded up, public parks locked their doors, and COVID-19 kept kids and parents inside, away from sports and social activities. Basketball…

Making the decision to become a coach is already an important step. Now, you can focus your energy on everything you need to do to be the best possible coach….

When you decided to start a youth basketball organization you probably didn’t think most of your time would actually be spent off the court handling administration duties. You probably began…

TeamSnap has an easy-to-use integration with our friends at TeamGenius to help run tryouts and team evaluations. With a TeamGenius account you can easily import your TeamSnap rosters to TeamGenius,…

There is something special about bouncing a basketball for the first time, feeling the ball hit the blacktop and spring back up or the satisfaction of wrapping your fingers around…

On the final day of Women’s History Month, the TeamSnap community gathered together over Zoom to listen to women coaches share their stories and talk about the work they are…

Basketball is a fast-paced sport that involves just about every muscle group in your body. The sport requires a lot of athleticism, endurance and physical fitness. There is a lot…

Playing different sports can help youth athletes boost strength, agility—and enjoyment. Here are five combinations to try.

Relationships with coaches can be tricky to navigate, but the key to any solid player-coach relationship can be answered with a simple question: Does your coach trust you? There are…

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about coaches who play favorites, giving some kids more playing time than others for various valid – and not so valid –…

Part III of III  Read Part I and Part II Parents and coaches, keep your cool. Manage your expectations of your athlete, or they won’t find it enjoyable on a deeper…

Every year at tryouts, no matter for which sport the tryout is held, hyper-competitive parents can be heard boasting to their friends that their child is going to ‘play up’…

Who doesn’t love the Jeremy Lin story? Whether or not you are a basketball fan, it’s pretty hard to escape the catchy, punny headlines: Linsanity! Another Win for Lin! Lincredible!…

Cape Cod League baseball provides an unrivaled environment for baseball fans – young and old – to meet and mingle with top college ballplayers, many of whom go on to…

It is tournament time again, and if you have kids playing sports, it is likely that you will be spending at least a few upcoming weekends at a rink or…