Tag: Nicholas Zoroya

Coaching is a booming and growing industry, particularly in youth sports. Coaches need educational resources to enter the profession as either a paid coach or a volunteer. According to our reviewer, Nicholas Zoraya, McGahey & Pierro’s Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles Effectively (Rowman & Littlefield) fills this need excellently, providing both the psychological and coaching skills required to develop a team holistically with strategies that will enhance the coach’s leadership skills.

In How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline (Rowman & Littlefield) Rick Eckstein looks closely at college sports and chronicles how college and youth sports have become more commercialized, to the detriment of participants. Nicholas Zoroya is our reviewer, and although he finds Eckstein’s book a substantial contribution to the conversation on youth sports, he also thinks that the author, while rightly putting a lot of blame on the commodification of college sports, also lets the parents off way too easy.