Growing Champions

Since 2013 USA Swimming has partnered with David Benzel and Growing Champions for Life, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the youth sport experience, to provide resources and guidance to help parents support their swimmers.

Growing Champions for Life nurtures the bond between parents and their children by providing them with positive and practical strategies for playing their role as sport parent effectively through the gift of unconditional love and the pursuit of personal excellence. Each month a new inspirational video, educational webinar, informative newsletter, interview and article are posted to support families on their journey through youth sports.

JANUARY WEBINAR

Making Family Decisions That Make Sense

Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:00 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

Making good decisions is a life-long challenge, and making sound family decisions is considerably more complex. After all, everyone seems to have an opinion about what’s best! If you’ve been frustrated with the process of weighing everyone’s concerns and preferences, and you’d like to avoid becoming the dictator at your house, this webinar is for you.

You will learn how to:
- Decide which decisions to make alone, and which ones to share responsibility with others
- Get people to weigh-in, so they will eventually buy-in.
- Utilize decision-making criteria that increases the likelihood of success
- Teach your children to be good decision makers when you’re not around

David will connect the key life skills of the lesson with winning on the field, and in life. The Power Point materials are loaded with practical information worth saving for future reference.

JANUARY PODCAST

SPORTS FAMILY CORNER

The Sport Family Corner - From Good to Great in Four Steps

LISTEN TO PODCAST

Act the Way You Want to Become

EXPERT INTERVIEW

Wendy Bruce Martin

Olympic Gymnast and Bronze Medalist, '92

She shares her observations about how parents can find a balance between over-involvement and complete detachment from their children’s activities.