Mm-hmm

... not just me telling them what I expect, but inviting them into building our culture.

So things we did last year, um, we have our starting six, which are our core values.

Um, and I didn't just tell them, "These are our core values," I presented them with, "These are some things I think are important.

What do you like? What do you not like? Um, what needs to be taken out? What needs to be added?" And so, um, we sat in a room for about an hour and a half discussing what six words we want to define our team, and last year it boiled down to love, grow, grit, sacrifice, trust, commit.

And, um- You know, everyone got a say in those.

They got to voice their opinions and decide what we wanted to put in there, and then they got to plead a case for why they want this one instead of another one.

Uh, what advice would you have for parents as they kind of navigate this youth travel sports landscape?