Win The Season Sponsored by Fastbreak Playbook-Episode #7 Pre-Season Parent Social

Win The Season Sponsored by Fastbreak Playbook-Episode #7 Pre-Season Parent Social

From A Pen And A Napkin by Martin Plum

July 14, 2026 · 24 min · Season 1 · Episode 476

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of managing relationships with players' parents and offers ideas for a preseason parent social.

For most coaches, perhaps the most difficult relationship(s) that we navigate in our career is our relationship with our players parents. In this episide, we discuss ideas for a preseason parent social, the benefits of it, different ideas for running a social gathering and some outside the box suggestions for the coaching staff. In addition, we've got a great quote from James Clear, along with suggestions for studying one of our great modern coaches, Tara VanDerveer.

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