Everyone Gets A Trophy?

I have spent a great deal of time talking about coaches and parents that put too much focus on winning at the youth level, that this particular blog is going to sound a little hypocritical. I do think that in sports, just like everything else, there needs to be a proper balance. The idea that everyone is a winner in a competition may be good at the earliest years of organized sports, but there is too much to learn from the losses and the failures, to let kids continue thinking that everyone should get a trophy, even when they come in last place.

Mike Matheny22