Jan. 26, 2023 — Cautionary phrases from an all-time nice

Rachel Dawson is among the all-time greats from her time at Voorhees Jap (N.J.), the College of North Carolina, and thru her worldwide profession, with practically 300 caps for the USA.

As a coach with the U.S. developmental staff in addition to a participant, she has seen all sides of the American area hockey pyramid. And in a posting at the moment on her Substack account, she has an attention-grabbing tackle the place she thinks American area hockey is:

[T]he USA doesn’t have a shared imaginative and prescient and function reverberating by each stage of the game. This prevents us from having an understanding and appreciation for a way every coach, at each stage, uniquely contributes to our recreation. As a substitute, we’re all left to show ourselves and promote our personal area.

The context of this paragraph is that that is one in every of quite a lot of observations she has made by way of how coaches are on this fixed cycle of needing to show themselves of their jobs, and the calls for differ relying on the extent the coach is on.

These observations got here from listening to a postcast from Wharton professor and former scholastic All-America springboard diver Adam Grant. The episode, “Why You Ought to Cease Proving Your self,” may be discovered on his web site in both video or audio format. It’s an attention-grabbing hear.