The Champion Sports Parent
"This book will help you to be more mindful in all your parenting especially when it comes to offering advice to your child before, during and after a game." Steve Kerr, 9x NBA Champion coach and player
Parenting athletes in today's challenging youth sports environment is hard. The only guidance parents get, thanks to social media, is often how NOT to do it. In The Champion Sports Parent, Jerry Lynch and John O’Sullivan share wisdom accrued from decades of consultation with well over 100 conference, national, and world championship teams and dozens of Hall of Fame coaches; interviews with hundreds of athletes, coaches, and leadership experts on their Way of Champions Podcast; and hundreds of workshops on being an exceptional teammate, leader, coach, and parent. This book teaches you to become a more self aware parent, teach your child the secrets of winning the inner game, form better relationships with coaches, and navigate the complexities and difficult conversations of today's sports parent.
'As a college coach and mother of three athletic kids, I have witnessed the craziness of youth sports and how it impacts kids. This is a must read for all sports parents. " - Jenny Levy, 3x NCAA Champion coach at University of North Carolina Women's Lacrosse
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jerry Lynch and John O’Sullivan are leadership, performance, and team culture specialists. Their work has received global acclaim in youth, high school, collegiate, and professional athletics. Jerry and John cohost the Way of Champions Podcast, as well as the Way of Champions Transformational Leadership Conference, and both are national advisory board members of the Positive Coaching
Alliance.
Jerry Lynch, PhD, is the founder and director of Way of Champions, a human potential and
performance consulting group helping others master the relationship and culture building games
in athletics, business, and life. He first learned about extraordinary performance and excellence
as a nationally ranked competitive athlete sponsored by Nike, running world class times from
5,000 meters to the marathon, setting an American record in the half-marathon, and winning a
national championship. He is recognized as one of the top leaders in his profession in the world.
He has published 17 books in over 10 languages. Jerry has had significant influence with
Olympic sports programs from New Zealand, Germany, the Philippines, and the United States.
His work has impacted teams, coaches, and athletes in the NBA, Pro Lacrosse, and Major
League Soccer, in addition to men’s and women’s basketball, lacrosse, field hockey, swimming,
soccer, tennis, golf, and track and field at the universities of North Carolina, Duke, Maryland,
California, Syracuse, Stanford, Harvard, and Middlebury. In the past 35 years alone, he has
helped influence 118 world, national, conference and state championship teams. He has had
extensive media interview coverage with CBS, NBC, and PBS national television, the New York
Times, Oprah Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Baltimore Sun, Outside Magazine and over 400
national magazines, radio broadcasts, podcasts, and webinars. Learn more at
www.WayOfChampions.com.
John O’Sullivan is the founder of Changing the Game Project, an organization dedicated to
helping coaches, parents, schools, and youth sport organizations give sports back to our kids and
put a little more “play” in “play ball.” He is a former collegiate and professional soccer player,
and has coached for over 30 years on the youth, high school, and collegiate levels. John has
written two bestselling books, Changing the Game and Every Moment Matters, and his work has
appeared on CNN, Outside Magazine, the Huffington Post, Boston Globe, ESPN, NBC Sports,
and numerous other media outlets. He has consulted with the USOC, US Soccer, USA
Swimming, US Ski and Snowboard, USA Wrestling, Ireland Rugby, National Rugby League of
Australia, the PGA, and many other entities, including teams and coaches at Ohio State, Rutgers,
Fordham, Colby, and USF. You can learn more at www.ChangingTheGameProject.com.
