Student-Athlete Seminars

Life and Leadership Through Sport Series

Coach Beyond is proud to offer the Life and Leadership Through Sport Series, a six-session series on developing life and leadership skills for high school student-athletes. Each session focuses on a specific skill or topic and includes several interactive elements, including small group discussions, games, and homework prompts. The six session topics are listed below along with their specific learning objectives.

TOPIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Supporting Student Athlete Mental Health
  • Discuss mental health and how it can affect you physically and mentally and your relationships
  • Overview of sport-specific techniques that can help your team focus on wellness
  • Identify linkage and referral resources in your school
Developing Leaders
  • Describe and identify leadership strategies student-athletes can engage in through sport and beyond the field, court, mat, etc. in life
  • Play Leadership Family Feud to reinforce reflection of different leadership strategies
Improving Mental Strategies
  • Describe and identify mental strategies student-athletes can engage in through sport and in life
  • Play Mental Strategies Jeopardy to identify positive coping skills and techniques
Building a Community of Support
  • Describe and identify how we can build our community of support with peers, family members, coaches, and our communities
  • Play "World Cup: Support for Sport" and reflect on boundaries in sport
Fostering a Positive Team Environment
  • Describe and identify strategies and skills to help foster a positive team environment
  • Play The Game of TRI-Ing to discuss trust, relationships, and inclusivity in sport
Managing Stress & Pressure
  • Gain knowledge of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual strategies that promote wellness
  • Play Knockout Burnout to identify ways to engage in healthy behaviors in and outside of sport
  • Complete the Life and Leadership Evaluation (survey)

Hear from Student-Athletes!

This brief video is an example of the Life and Leadership Series from Granville High School. They are calling the series HeadspACE because they are the Blue Aces!

Costs and Scheduling

The Life and Leadership Series can be brought to your school as a year-long series of 6 sessions or as individual sessions. The costs associated with each model are listed below.

Partnership Model Services Offered Overview of Costs
Complete Series
(6 sessions - usually scheduled over the course of 1 school year)
  • Parent/Guardian Notices
  • Scheduling/Coordination Supports
  • Administrative Meetings
  • Train the Trainers
  • Curriculum Implementation
  • Evaluation/Reports
$5,500
Individual Sessions
(By Teams or by Topic; add as many or little as you like)
  • Parent/Guardian Notices
  • Curriculum Implementation
  • Preparation of Materials
$1,000 per session
Other Services
  • Student-Athlete Survey
  • Parent/Caregiver Survey
  • Coach Survey
$500 per stakeholder group

Please reach out to us via email if you are interested in learning more! coachbeyond@osu.edu

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