Responsible Sports Bookshelf | Recommended Youth Sports Reading

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Following are links to books by Jim Thompson, Founder of Positive Coaching Alliance, books by or about PCA National Advisory Board Members and other books that PCA recommends. Purchasing these books through these links will yield a small donation to PCA through its website or through its affiliate relationship with Amazon.com.

The Double-Goal Coach - Jim Thompson (Founder, Positive Coaching Alliance)

Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports - Jim Thompson (Founder, Positive Coaching Alliance)

Shooting in the Dark: Tales of Coaching and Leadership - Jim Thompson (Founder, Positive Coaching Alliance)

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - Mary Pipher

101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent - Joel Fish

Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players and Parents - Cynthia Lair

Raising a Team Player: Teaching Kids Lasting Values on the Field, on the Court and on the Bench - Harry Sheehy, Danny Peary and Joe Torre

The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer - Bobby Clark

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream - H. G. Bissinger

Season of Life  - Jeffrey Marx

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood - William Pollack Positive Coaching in a Nutshell - Jim Thompson (Founder, Positive Coaching Alliance) Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior - Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty A Coach's Life: My Forty Years in College Basketball - Dean Smith On Leadership - John Gardner Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society- John Gardner Flow in Sports - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Susan Jackson Values of the Game - Bill Bradley Building a Champion: On Football and the Making of the 49ers - Bill Walsh When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls - Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker and Charles Salzberg

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