I often talk about how sport is the perfect environment to develop some of life’s most needed skills.  It’s been proven in research and many former athletes create lucrative careers writing and talking about what their sport experience taught them and how they apply that to their lives today.  Below are 4 of the most critical sport skills that athletes can transfer to life.
 

Injury rehab can be very tricky territory for many athletes to navigate successfully. Athletes can easily be caught off guard by feelings of isolation and uncertainty of how to help themselves recover. The clear trauma is the physical injury, the tear, break or bruise. The less obvious trauma is the mental, emotional and social impact that often accompanies physical injuries. Below is a list of some of the common challenges and solutions for young athletes who find themselves in this difficult space of injury recovery.