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Lisa Stone

American basketball coach

May 21, 2026

14:26
Um, yeah, with something like that, or even the, you know, the tournament schedule, which at times might encourage players to over-compete, um, to a certain degree, or, or at times protect a UTR or ranking, you know, what do you advise parents in terms of dealing with some of those stressors so that, again, they can keep that big why in mind? 'Cause it's, it's easy to know the big why, but then you can get really immersed in those details and get a little bit too emotional about that.
14:56
Yeah, absolutely.
14:57
And it's...
14:59
So I do one-on-one consults with families, so I'm just gonna put that out there, and that's some of my favorite work that I do because I really get to dig into that particular family's journey and what the goals are and what they're doing well and what they could maybe improve on, and really try to open their eyes to this big picture that we're talking about, right? Um, for me, my message is always to the parent, "Your goal is to have a great relationship with your child at the end of this journey," period, the end.
15:34
That's it.
15:35
Um, your child has other goals.
15:37
The coach has other goals.

15 MINS LATER

30:39
there.Um, how do you see, I guess, both of those landscapes, the junior tennis landscape and college tennis landscape changing, and like, what, in what direction do you see them continuing to head in?

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