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Category: parents
Letter to Sport Parents
A fantastic short video put together by Arsenal academy players for their parents. …
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in praise of Gymnastics Moms
Inside Gymnastics magazine.
Shallon Olsen on Mental Health
Shallon is amazing. She juggled an NCAA career simultaneously with Elite, competing 3 Olympics. (so far)
One of the most amazing young gymnasts I’ve even seen, Shallon could do Yurchenko Double Twist at age-8. Tiny … she could barely deflect the FIG Spring Board.
Her age group training was with strict Russian coaches.
Looking back, Shallon wishes she had been listened to more. And supported better.
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Now age-24, Shallon’s still competitive in Elite. And is considering a run at her 4th Olympics.
Jade Carey has a girlfriend
Jade has gone Instagram public about her relationship with Oregon State content manager Aimee Sinacola.
Congratulations.
In an era when ReTrumplican politicians are attacking minorities, I admire Jade coming out. She’s a role model for many others fearful of doing the same.
Marta Pihan-Kulesza documentary
Polish gymnastics power couple Marta Pihan-Kulesza and Roman Kulesza have long been accustomed to having their performances watched, analyzed and scrutinized by television and online viewers around the world.
“Marta and Jagna: Vol. 1,” a documentary film released at the end of 2023 and now viewable on YouTube and other platforms, offers a candid, unfiltered perspective on the married Olympians – and their young daughter Jagna, a budding gymnast with unintentionally scene-stealing charm and alertness. …
You can watch 1st part of the documentary on YouTube. Free.
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How to Save Youth Sports: A Manifesto
Parents in 2025 are worried about peer pressure, teen mental health, teen addiction to screens, and even childhood obesity.
As coaches, our goal is that kids get hooked on fitness and achievement through sport. Being an athlete is one of the best ways to grow up.
Here’s a terrific article by Steve Magness for your parents:
How to Save Youth Sports: A Manifesto
Sports are a great way to establish basic psychological needs: autonomy; mastery and skill development; mattering and belonging
Nobody remembers (or cares) if you won your first-grade league championship.
Youth sports should be about having a space for kids to challenge themselves healthily and explore their interests and limits.
Youth sports should be a place where kids can learn how to be a good teammate, navigate conflict, and develop tools to regulate their emotions.
Perhaps most of all, youth sports should be about developing a positive relationship with physical health and fitness. …
SafeSport for children
Canadian SafeSport Gym Education … creates documentary style videos to share what safe sport means from real people.
Link to SafeSport Gym Education Website
Here is their VIDEO for young children.
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Anna Li and Jiani Wu suspended by SafeSport
Legacy Elite is a gymnastics club in Aurora. Head Coach Anna Li and her mother, Jiani Wu, have been suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSport after a nearly six-year investigation.
SafeSport’s disciplinary database lists the misconduct as “physical and emotional.” …
Attorneys for the suspended co-owner and coach told the I-Team the allegations are, “categorically false,” and said they do plan to appeal. The attorneys also said their clients were, “under this type of cloud for years without an opportunity to fully resolve the matter. This is yet another case that clearly illustrates the Center is wholly incapable of reasonable investigations .”
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German Gymnastics investigates abuse claim
The German gymnastics federation DTB has pledged to launch an investigation into physical and mental abuse allegations made by 24-year-old retired gymnast Tabea Alt.
On Sunday, the DTB told Germany’s DPA news agency that it “had concrete information on potential wrongdoing from coaches at the federal training center in Stuttgart.”
“The subject of the investigation will be possible misconduct by coaches as well as errors in the high performance sports system at national bases,” the federation said. …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 