Congratulations Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Winners
 Congratulations to winners of PCA's Triple-Impact CompetitorTM Scholarships awarded at Saturday's Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Awards Ceremony sponsored by Deloitte. The pilot program in Northern California, which PCA plans to expand to other areas in the near future, honors high school student-athletes committed to:
- Personal Mastery -- Making oneself better
- Leadership -- Making one's teammates better
- Honoring the Game -- Making the game better.
Winners were:
Andrea Davis, Foothill High School, Pleasanton
Dave Douglass III, St. Elizabeth High School, Oakland
Nicholas Gibson, Gilroy High School, Gilroy
Emi Hashizume, Aragon High School, San Mateo
Taylor Johnson, Presentation High School, San Jose
Michael Kimble, Acalanes High School, Lafayette
Nicholas Kwan, Lowell High School, San Francisco (above, holding sign, with his guests)
Cydni Matsuoka, John F. Kennedy High School, Sacramento
Chris Winn, Jesuit High School, Sacramento
Eve Zelinger, Castilleja School, Palo Alto
Each has received a $2,000 scholarship for use toward post-secondary education on the basis of essays by the student-athletes and testimonials from their coaches, athletic directors, teachers and community leaders.
The emotional breakfast ceremony at Stanford University on Saturday featured Master of Ceremonies Ted Robinson -- famed broadcaster of the San Francisco 49ers, Wimbledon, the Olympics and Major League Baseball -- and a keynote presentation by Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach Keith Smart.
PCA thanks Deloitte and the Thrive Foundation for Youth for supporting this program and thanks the student-athletes themsleves for contributing to a positive, character-building youth sports environment.
 
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Ask PCA: Establishing Cell Phone Policies
Your responses to our last Ask PCA question provided great guidance for a coach who hopes to bring a Double-Goal Coaching� mentality to his co-coaches, who are overly focused on the scoreboard. Thanks for your help, which in turn will help the 7-to-9-year-olds on that team.
Now, this week's question:
"Kids on our high school hockey team texting among each other before practice, on team bus rides and even during games is causing us grief. As coaches, we are considering having all players surrender their phones during team activities, including bus rides, so they can focus on practices and games. In case of emergency, of course, parents could reach coaches on our own cell phones. Can you suggest policies for cell phone use?"
-- Name Withheld By Request
To read all responses to the previous "Ask PCA" question -- "Changing My Co-Coaches' Approach" -- including PCA's response, click here.
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Coaching, Sports Parenting Tips from Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach Keith Smart
Keith Smart -- first famous as the buzzer-beating jumpshooter who clinched Indiana's 1987 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and earned the spotlight in the original "One Shining Moment" postgame video -- now stars in a PCA video.
Amazingly, Keith never played for his high school team, but he became a winner on the scoreboard and has continually learned and taught life lessons. After an inspiring presentation at last Saturday's Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Awards Ceremony, the Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach and father of two youth athletes shared his perspectives on coaching and sports parenting.
Keith Smart (left) and Deloitte's Mark Edmunds |
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