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Sports Life Podcast for PCA MN

The Sports Life Podcast for Positive Coaching Alliance Minnesota is a podcast for people who want to know how others find success, and to promote coaches and youth sports training with the goal of making Better Athletes, Better People. Hosted by Kelcey Carlson from Fox 9 in Minneapolis and her husband, Dave, this podcast shines a spotlight on coaches and athletes that are making a difference.

The My Sports Life Podcast for PCA MN is produced by Digital Legend Media, Minneapolis, MN (919) 757-2592

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Sports Life Podcast for PCA MN
Ep 20: Performance Mindset Coach Cindra Kamphoff On Getting the Most Out Of Yourself from 2020-05-13T20:19:47

Performance Mindset Coach Cindra Kamphoff knows how to help people get the best out of themselves. She has spent time working with executives and pro athletes like the Minnesota Vikings. And she...

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Ep 19: Gold Medal Winner Gwen Jorgensen On Olympic Training During a Pandemic from 2020-05-01T08:00

Gwen Jorgensen won Triathlon gold in Rio 4 years ago, and she wants to race for Olympic gold once again, but this time on the track. Unfortunately, her plans to compete in Tokoyo are delayed due...

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Ep 18: Minnesota Wild Matt Majka on COVID-19's Affect on Professional Hockey from 2020-04-22T08:00

Matt Majka has been with the Minnesota Wild organization for 23 years in various roles, and, like all of us, never anticipated that the world would come to a screeching halt. Up until a few shor...

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Ep 17: How John Millea Of the Minnesota High School Sports League Got Over 200 Schools Across Minnesota to Be the Light #BetheLightMN the Night from 2020-04-13T08:00

John Millea says he's never afraid to borrow a good idea, and the idea he borrowed has lit up high school football fields, baseball diamonds, and tennis courts across Minnesota. It’s called Be T...

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Ep 16: Positive Coaching Alliance-Minnesota Executive Director Troy Pearson on Navigating COVID-19 as a Non-Profit and How PCA Is Still Teaching Kids and Coaches Despite Canceled Seasons from 2020-03-30T08:00

Troy Pearson has been with Positive Coaching Alliance Minnesota since its inception in 2013, and in 2018 became its Executive Director.

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EP 15: Mike Smith, Athletic Director and Baseball Coach at Totino-Grace On Innovative Ways to Keep Your Players In Shape During Covid-19 from 2020-03-26T07:00

Mike Smith and his team were in an unusual situation as schools and businesses started shutting down across the nation. They weren't on the baseball field at Totino-Grace in Fridley, MN, but on ...

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Ep 14: Marney Gellner On Keeping Perspective During Crisis from 2020-03-23T07:00

Marney Gellner, Fox Sports North broadcaster for the Timberwolves, Twins, and Lynx should be on her longest road schedule of the year. But she, just like the rest...

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Ep 13: Chad Johnson and How Small Town Sports Pride Pushes Through a Pandemic from 2020-03-19T08:00

On today's podcast, we are talking once again about the Coronavirus outbreak and its effect on schools and school sports. Chad Johson is from Tri-City United High School in Montgomery, MN, locat...

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Ep 12: COVID-19's Effect On High School Athletics With Activities Director For Lakeville HS Tom Dasovich from 2020-03-16T16:54:26

COVID -19 has affected every corner of society including high school athletics. It's one thing to talk about seasons and tournaments being canceled, but a lot of kids benefit from the structure ...

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Ep 11: Minnesota Basketball Coaches Hall of Famer Larry McKenzie from 2020-01-18T08:30

Larry McKenzie was a great podcast guest!  He's the type of coach who doesn't build teams, he builds young men. 
 
He was the first coach in Minnesota basketball history ...

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Ep 10: University of Minnesota and NBA Great Richard Coffey from 2019-11-16T10:00

Richard Coffey will tell you failure is an important part of any process.   His story is more than basketball and the time he spent playing at the University of Minnesota and the NBA.
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Ep 9 Hockey Great Lou Nanne from 2019-05-30T05:32:18

Hockey legend Lou Nanne spent his entire professional career with the Minnesota North Stars playing 635 games from 1968 through 1977. His career then took him from the ice to the bench as genera...

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Ep 8 CEO of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx, Ethan Casson from 2019-05-02T08:00

Ethan Casson is finishing his third season as the CEO for the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Minnesota Lynx, and the Iowa Wolves which is the Timberwolves G-League team.

Prior to his current...

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Ep 7 Former Minnesota Viking Great Matt Birk from 2019-03-18T09:00

Our guest today is Matt Birk! Matt, a hometown kid, spent 14 seasons in the NFL, most with the team he grew up watching, the Minnesota Vikings. He's a great guy with a lot of layers, and we're n...

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Ep 6 Basketball Great Lou Pucillo from 2019-03-07T06:28:44

At 5 foot 8 Lou Pucillo was an unlikely basketball star.    

He was cut from his high school basketball team and the sport seemed like an unlikely dream.  But he went to a prep school aft...

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Ep 5 Elite Runner Gabriele Grunewald Battles a Rare Cancer One Mile At a Time from 2018-11-16T02:52:02

We continue our series on "Overcomers" and this one will grab your heart.  
 
When I talk to Gabriele Grunewald, she elicits this image in my head of Wonder Woman pushing...

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Ep 4: Olympic Swimmer and Survivor Contestant Katrina Radke from 2018-10-10T23:47:45

At 17, Katrina Radke swam for Team USA. Soon after she faced some of the toughest battles of her life. What stood between her and an Olympic Trial comeback would be daunting for most, but not fo...

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Ep 3: Scott Stansfield, Former Cop and High School Basketball Coach On Why Out of Control Parents Forced Him to Quit from 2018-10-10T23:42:51

Coaching high school basketball became a challenge that Scott Stanfield says he could no longer endure.  He spent seven years as head coach of the boys' basketball team at Brainerd High School...

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Ep 2: Why Former Minnesota Twin Corey Koskie Thinks We're Making Some Serious Mistakes When It Comes to Kid's Sports from 2018-10-10T23:37:45

Corey Koskie thinks we’re making some serious mistakes when it comes to kids’ sports.  And he knows a thing or two about what it takes to compete at the highest level.  
 
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Ep 1: Why This Podcast Matters From the Man Who Started a Movement To Promote Better People, Better Athletes from 2018-10-10T23:32:46

Jim Thompson saw a void in youth sports and founded The Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) in 1998 through the Stanford Universit...

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