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SPORTS PERSONALITIES
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A winning alliance
There are many different ways to define success.
Coaches in the league, including Frei, take part in a session to
become a Double-Goal Coach. The instructor is brought in from
the States, and leads coaches through this model of coaching,
which includes creating a positive team culture to encourage
There is the scoreboard - on which a win is always a goal. But then
athletes to strive for excellence, designing dynamic practice
there is another way to win that goes beyond the score and beyond
sessions, and examining coaching strategies. The principles of
the championships and really deals with what sport is all about.
Bob Frei has found that with the Positive Coaching Alliance. He
this coaching strategy are honouring the game, redefining what
winning means, and filling the emotional tank.
brought it into Queen City Minor Box Lacrosse, and now the
The PCA is well recognized in the United States, and its advisory
entire association is seeing the benefits.
board includes a multitude of Olympians, professional coaches
and players, NCAA coaches and directors, and more. The PCA
“It’s the way to go for the future,” said Frei, who found the PCA
National Spokesperson is Phil Jackson, head coach of the Los
eight years ago after reading a book called The Key to Coaching,
by Jim Thompson, the founder of the PCA from Stanford. The
Angeles Lakers.
PCA has grown tremendously since that time, and is slowly
Players, many of whom have taken the Triple-Impact Competitors
moving into Canada. The PCA is a nonprofit organization with the
program in the PCA, notice the difference in the culture of
goals of transforming youth sports to create character-building
experiences, training Double-Goal coaches about the purposes of
QCMBL, as many have played for other teams and in other sports.
winning as well as using sports to teach life lessons.
Logan McMurtry is playing on Frei’s team this year, and has
been involved in lacrosse for six years. He took the Triple-Impact
“We’re more than lacrosse,” said Frei. “Lacrosse is Canada’s
summer sport, and now we involved honouring the game.”
Competitors session last year.
The slogan of QCMBL is “Honour the Game,” and coaches,
parents, and players alike really take heart to the saying and both
play and live towards it.
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“It was about making yourself and your teammates better,” said
McMurtry, who also plays basketball and football competitively.
“It’s to not only focus on winning the game, but also when you lose
focusing on what you can do better to win the next game.”