What High School Sports Don’t Prepare You ForFrom the pages of: A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching
When people talk about high school sports, the conversation usually sounds like this: “It builds character.”“It teaches teamwork.”“It gets kids ready for real life.” All of those things can be true. But Raymond Kiddy’s memoir, A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching, goes much deeper than those familiar quotes. It forces us […]
The Night They Played for HerInspired by the memoir: A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching
It was more than just a soccer game. In fact, for the Bishop Walsh girls’ soccer team, it had very little to do with the sport at all. In A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching, Coach Raymond Kiddy shares the kind of story you don’t expect to find in a book […]
The Real Game Behind the GameBased on the memoir: A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching
Let’s be honest, most of us think we know what coaching is all about. You’ve got your clipboard, your whistle, your locker room speeches. You draw up plays, fire up the team, yell from the sidelines, win (or lose), and head home. That’s the version of coaching most people see. But in A Road No […]
From Backyard Games to Big Lessons — The Making of a Coach
Before Raymond Kiddy ever picked up a whistle or stood on the sidelines of a soccer field, he was just a kid in Western Maryland dreaming big, building teams, and turning backyards into football stadiums. In A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching, Kiddy takes us all the way back to where […]
Not A Playbook, But A Wake-Up Call
Let’s set the record straight. This isn’t a sports book. This isn’t a motivational memoir with “10 steps to leadership success.” And this definitely isn’t a story where everything wraps up neatly by the final chapter. This is a wake-up call. Especially if you think coaching is about yelling plays from the sidelines and shaking […]
The Girl in the Jersey Who Stood Up to SpeakInspired by the memoir: A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching
There are moments in life that freeze time. They don’t happen under stadium lights.They don’t come with a trophy.But once they happen, nothing ever looks the same again. One of those moments lives at the heart of A Road No One Traveled – Side Effects of Coaching, and it doesn’t take place on a soccer […]