Meagan Frank
@meaganfrank.bsky.social
Author. Speaker. Coach.
For the Team: How to Improve the Youth Sports Experience for Everyone (Rowman & Littlefield) Feb 2025
For the Team: How to Improve the Youth Sports Experience for Everyone (Rowman & Littlefield) Feb 2025
“To tackle the problems of technology we have to return to our emotional lives…not leap to doing or changing or fixing. This is the only viable pathway… to remain in touch with our humanness…to preserve love, empathy, emotional & spiritual richness.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“To tackle the problems of technology we have to return to our emotional lives…not leap to doing or changing or fixing. This is the only viable pathway… to remain in touch with our humanness…to preserve love, empathy, emotional & spiritual richness.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Thank you to all sports parents who show up. In the rain. When it’s cold. Regardless of their athlete’s playing time. Win or lose. Home or away.
Unconditional love looks a lot like that.
#fortheteam #love #parenting
Unconditional love looks a lot like that.
#fortheteam #love #parenting
April 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Thank you to all sports parents who show up. In the rain. When it’s cold. Regardless of their athlete’s playing time. Win or lose. Home or away.
Unconditional love looks a lot like that.
#fortheteam #love #parenting
Unconditional love looks a lot like that.
#fortheteam #love #parenting
Delivered a few For the Team copies to be circulated in Aspen. Lofty goals for the content within.
March 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Delivered a few For the Team copies to be circulated in Aspen. Lofty goals for the content within.
How to avoid the paradox of choice as a youth sports parent.
The Art of Making the Right Choices in Youth Sports
How to avoid choice paralysis as a youth sports parent.
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March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
How to avoid the paradox of choice as a youth sports parent.
So grateful for an evening of catch-up and a morning of youth-sports-story swapping. These 2 had an enormous impact on the research & lived experience for the book & I’m so glad to have had time w/ stillwater rotary to share the start of what we’re all sure will be a WORLD TOUR of #FortheTeam.😂
March 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
So grateful for an evening of catch-up and a morning of youth-sports-story swapping. These 2 had an enormous impact on the research & lived experience for the book & I’m so glad to have had time w/ stillwater rotary to share the start of what we’re all sure will be a WORLD TOUR of #FortheTeam.😂
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Our speaker line up for the Women Coaches Symposium is so good. Register now and follow the @tuckercenter.bsky.social for updates.
🚨 Speaker Announcement! 🚨
Shelly Breen is speaking at the 2025 Women Coaches Symposium! A speaker, author, and life coach, she is committed to using sport and leadership to create meaningful change every day.
📅 Register now: WCS.UMN.EDU
#WCS2025 #TuckerCenter #WomenInSport
Shelly Breen is speaking at the 2025 Women Coaches Symposium! A speaker, author, and life coach, she is committed to using sport and leadership to create meaningful change every day.
📅 Register now: WCS.UMN.EDU
#WCS2025 #TuckerCenter #WomenInSport
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Our speaker line up for the Women Coaches Symposium is so good. Register now and follow the @tuckercenter.bsky.social for updates.
Spontaneous conga lines during a pick-up soccer night are sorta awesome. Offering space for freedom of thought and freedom of movement is a gift we should give our kids as often as possible.
#letthemplay #youthsports
#letthemplay #youthsports
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spontaneous conga lines during a pick-up soccer night are sorta awesome. Offering space for freedom of thought and freedom of movement is a gift we should give our kids as often as possible.
#letthemplay #youthsports
#letthemplay #youthsports
Book talk at Menomonie Public Library tomorrow, Feb 24th at 6. See you there!
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Meagan Frank Author Visit | Menomonie Public Library
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February 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Book talk at Menomonie Public Library tomorrow, Feb 24th at 6. See you there!
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So great to see you! Thank you for all the support and encouragement through the years❤️📘. (Obviously a completely candid photo😉)
Reading Meagan Frank's new book "For the Team-How to Improve the Youth Sports Experience for EVERYONE" The @tuckercenter team is at the WWSAC.
February 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So great to see you! Thank you for all the support and encouragement through the years❤️📘. (Obviously a completely candid photo😉)
Connection. Play. Nature.
All that is good in one place. I love the joy we can offer at www.woodwindpark.com
All that is good in one place. I love the joy we can offer at www.woodwindpark.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Connection. Play. Nature.
All that is good in one place. I love the joy we can offer at www.woodwindpark.com
All that is good in one place. I love the joy we can offer at www.woodwindpark.com
Failures demand more unconditional love than successes do. Abandon pride and choose love.
Set Pride Aside, Your Kid Needs a Hug
Failures demand more unconditional love than successes do. Abandon pride and choose love.
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February 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Failures demand more unconditional love than successes do. Abandon pride and choose love.
The timing of my book being published means the dismissal of my perspective could be swift and without discussion. I pray daily that discourse is still possible.
Legislation Cannot Love, Only People Can Do That
The timing of my book being published means the dismissal of my perspective could be swift and without discussion. I pray daily that discourse is still possible.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The timing of my book being published means the dismissal of my perspective could be swift and without discussion. I pray daily that discourse is still possible.
In honor of tomorrow’s launch of For the Team, I’ve created a set of playing cards. Some cards have questions, some have photos and some reference specific experiences, not all of which could be included in the book. Hubby and I will draw at random to discuss 11-1.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In honor of tomorrow’s launch of For the Team, I’ve created a set of playing cards. Some cards have questions, some have photos and some reference specific experiences, not all of which could be included in the book. Hubby and I will draw at random to discuss 11-1.
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45 years… as a player, as a coach, as a parent, and as the spouse of a coach. That’s a long sports story.
Competition and a way to work through ugly, hard emotions drew me in initially.
Connection and a way to provide positive expression and relationship has kept me there.
What’s your sports story?
Competition and a way to work through ugly, hard emotions drew me in initially.
Connection and a way to provide positive expression and relationship has kept me there.
What’s your sports story?
January 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
45 years… as a player, as a coach, as a parent, and as the spouse of a coach. That’s a long sports story.
Competition and a way to work through ugly, hard emotions drew me in initially.
Connection and a way to provide positive expression and relationship has kept me there.
What’s your sports story?
Competition and a way to work through ugly, hard emotions drew me in initially.
Connection and a way to provide positive expression and relationship has kept me there.
What’s your sports story?
I whisper in a yelling world.
In order for people to hear, “You are loved. You matter. You are worthy. You’re enough.” I need to be in the same room with them.
May I be near someone who needs to hear this today. ❤️
In order for people to hear, “You are loved. You matter. You are worthy. You’re enough.” I need to be in the same room with them.
May I be near someone who needs to hear this today. ❤️
January 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I whisper in a yelling world.
In order for people to hear, “You are loved. You matter. You are worthy. You’re enough.” I need to be in the same room with them.
May I be near someone who needs to hear this today. ❤️
In order for people to hear, “You are loved. You matter. You are worthy. You’re enough.” I need to be in the same room with them.
May I be near someone who needs to hear this today. ❤️
A relationship-centered focus requires courageous parenting choices in today's youth sports climate.
For the Team: A Courageous Parenting Choice
A relationship-centered focus requires courageous parenting choices in today's youth sports climate.
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January 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A relationship-centered focus requires courageous parenting choices in today's youth sports climate.
There’s open ⚽️ today‼️
For over a decade, I’ve found ways to get kids into gyms during winter to play. Rooted in the purity of recess, & offered free for those who can’t pay, it fills me completely to see high schoolers running games & energetic children running & laughing.
Prioritize play!
For over a decade, I’ve found ways to get kids into gyms during winter to play. Rooted in the purity of recess, & offered free for those who can’t pay, it fills me completely to see high schoolers running games & energetic children running & laughing.
Prioritize play!
January 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There’s open ⚽️ today‼️
For over a decade, I’ve found ways to get kids into gyms during winter to play. Rooted in the purity of recess, & offered free for those who can’t pay, it fills me completely to see high schoolers running games & energetic children running & laughing.
Prioritize play!
For over a decade, I’ve found ways to get kids into gyms during winter to play. Rooted in the purity of recess, & offered free for those who can’t pay, it fills me completely to see high schoolers running games & energetic children running & laughing.
Prioritize play!
Yes! Please choose sampling over specialization. The expanse of life experiences demands it.
“The professed necessity of hyperspecialization forms the core of a vast, successful, and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sports and beyond.” @davidepstein.bsky.social
“The professed necessity of hyperspecialization forms the core of a vast, successful, and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sports and beyond.” @davidepstein.bsky.social
David Epstein (@davidepstein.bsky.social)
I'm new here! Science writer. Author of Range and The Sports Gene. Formerly ProPublica, Sports Illustrated; Range Widely at davidepstein.substack.com
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January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yes! Please choose sampling over specialization. The expanse of life experiences demands it.
“The professed necessity of hyperspecialization forms the core of a vast, successful, and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sports and beyond.” @davidepstein.bsky.social
“The professed necessity of hyperspecialization forms the core of a vast, successful, and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sports and beyond.” @davidepstein.bsky.social
Parents, your children may very well become next-level athletes, but focusing too much energy there means you miss everything happening on this level.
Be supportive. Be curious. And be present at each level you get to journey with them.
Be supportive. Be curious. And be present at each level you get to journey with them.
January 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Parents, your children may very well become next-level athletes, but focusing too much energy there means you miss everything happening on this level.
Be supportive. Be curious. And be present at each level you get to journey with them.
Be supportive. Be curious. And be present at each level you get to journey with them.
Privatization of youth sports.
Individualization of team member choices.
Teams, communities, & the larger whole matters less than our personal desires.
Choosing community above self strengthens the community & the community strengthens its members.
Choosing self above community isolates.
Individualization of team member choices.
Teams, communities, & the larger whole matters less than our personal desires.
Choosing community above self strengthens the community & the community strengthens its members.
Choosing self above community isolates.
January 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Privatization of youth sports.
Individualization of team member choices.
Teams, communities, & the larger whole matters less than our personal desires.
Choosing community above self strengthens the community & the community strengthens its members.
Choosing self above community isolates.
Individualization of team member choices.
Teams, communities, & the larger whole matters less than our personal desires.
Choosing community above self strengthens the community & the community strengthens its members.
Choosing self above community isolates.
The youth sports system requires systemic change. Our family’s system needed change too.
My personal overhaul was so I could show up for our sporting kids the way they deserved.
I share my work, discoveries and victories to change our family’s system. Control the controllable!
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My personal overhaul was so I could show up for our sporting kids the way they deserved.
I share my work, discoveries and victories to change our family’s system. Control the controllable!
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January 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The youth sports system requires systemic change. Our family’s system needed change too.
My personal overhaul was so I could show up for our sporting kids the way they deserved.
I share my work, discoveries and victories to change our family’s system. Control the controllable!
a.co/d/bcz8H2T
My personal overhaul was so I could show up for our sporting kids the way they deserved.
I share my work, discoveries and victories to change our family’s system. Control the controllable!
a.co/d/bcz8H2T
I spent 12 years untangling myself from the sports story that was partly written by others, written with words I thought I should use, and then ultimately landed in my soon-to-be-released book For the Team. I hope it encourages others to look intently at their own stories too.
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For the Team: How to Improve the Youth Sports Experience for Everyone: Frank, Meagan: 9781538198445: Amazon.com: Books
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January 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I spent 12 years untangling myself from the sports story that was partly written by others, written with words I thought I should use, and then ultimately landed in my soon-to-be-released book For the Team. I hope it encourages others to look intently at their own stories too.
a.co/d/j9om3Ti
For hockey, lacrosse & football parents too. Any place their equipment must go…give them the tools and instruction to carry it themselves. And especially for hockey folks…teach kids to tie their own skates as early as you can.
Make your kid carry their own bag and water. If they have both a backpack and a rolling catcher's bag, have them carry and drag both.
It's their game. Let them own it.
It's their game. Let them own it.
January 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For hockey, lacrosse & football parents too. Any place their equipment must go…give them the tools and instruction to carry it themselves. And especially for hockey folks…teach kids to tie their own skates as early as you can.
They’re setting up camp on the lake. Ice. Fishing. Sub-zero temps. The transformation from summer to winter always blows my mind. (I took this pic 1 mile in to my 2.5-mile walk on water😊)
January 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
They’re setting up camp on the lake. Ice. Fishing. Sub-zero temps. The transformation from summer to winter always blows my mind. (I took this pic 1 mile in to my 2.5-mile walk on water😊)
We take for granted the importance of community… until we realize what it means to lose it. Great piece.
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Can Communities Survive the Fires?
A writer from Los Angeles surveys the loss.
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January 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We take for granted the importance of community… until we realize what it means to lose it. Great piece.
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