Coaching Sports Needs to Change

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.  This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Podcast #16 is about the vulnerability of coaches as they grow older in their years and in the game and the value they have to the community of sport.  This po...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.   This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Podcast #15 is about the relationship that coaches develop with other coaches.  It delves into the nuances of coaching with other coaches and how those relati...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.   This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Podcast #14 is a must for players.  It describes the vital difference between who you are and what you do. This podcast describes some of Helen’s experiences...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.  This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Podcast #13 is a must for players, coaches and parents who are involved in representative levels of sport where the selection process can be traumatic and leav...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.  This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Episode #12 is an interview with Wyatt, a fifteen-year-old hockey player.  Wyatt describes his motivation for playing sports and how he got started.  There is...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.   This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Episode #11 is a must hear for parents, players, and coaches.  She discusses the nuances and subtleties of the seeds of abuse.  She talks about what to be awa...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been and influential creator and promoter of women’s rugby in Canada.   This podcast speaks to the addiction of winning and the resulting self judgement that losing can contribute to our self esteem.

**This episode contains expletive language** Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.  This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Episode #9 is an interview with Nikki Cloutier, who has been an untiring volunteer in this community.  Nikki has p...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.  This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.   Episode #8 looks at the concept of “power over” and boundaries.  It discusses how players, coaches and individuals can retain their own power, while still reac...

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.   This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.  Episode #7 takes a look why coaches need to create strategies and how asking the right questions can lead you to finding your mission statement and creating st...

Episode #6 is an interview with Jill Zonneveld, who was a significant contributor to the growth of women’s rugby from a local, regional, and national level to the international stage.  Jill is the only Canadian woman to have served on the International Rugby Board’s (now called World Rugby) Women’s Advisory Committee.  This is the untold history of how the women’s game got onto the international f...

This podcast is about the challenges of coaching a player who doesn't seem to be performing to their previous performance levels or capacity.  Looking past the obvious areas of fitness, skill and motivation, we may have to delve into an area we may not be comfortable with. We may have to look at the self beliefs that me be blocking the performance. Their spiritual wellbeing is a huge factor i...

This episode discusses the most influential period of time related to most young athletes; immediately before an event and immediately thereafter.  What happens in the car on the way there and on the way home has much more impact on the athlete than most people understand.

Podcast #3 revisits the changing nature of coaching sports with Dr. Maxi Miciak who was a high performance athlete and coach.  She is currently a researcher in the area of relationship impact on outcomes.  The discussion involves Maxi’s experiences as an athlete, coach and now researcher and how they relate to the changing world of coaching sports.

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.   This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.  Episode #2 looks at why individuals coach and why they stop coaching.  

Helen Wright,  Author of "Barefoot Flying" is a five time university sport national champion coach, who believes coaching sports needs to change to stay relevant with today's athletes, girls in particular.  This episode is an introduction to the series and starts with the question, "Why Do We Play?"