A Transcript Biography Sample

I was thrilled that J was enjoying sports so much, but I was also watchful. I’ve always believed that one of the things you really have to pay attention to with kids in sports is their psychological makeup and how they approach the game. If they're approaching it because they want to please a parent, it's never going to work. And if they're too competitive, you have to figure out how to make that healthy. 

I remember an incident from when H was around 10 years old. His team was in the playoffs and they put him in to pitch, because the kid who started the game got to the pitch count limit. It was his first big competitive game. 

J walked three batters and then he walked in a run. He felt like he was letting his team down so he called the coach out to the mound, handed him the ball, burst into tears and went to the dugout.

I remember the coach's response was fully inappropriate and it really, really pissed me off. He rolled his head back and he said, “I can't believe this. You're giving up.” When we got to the car I told J that I wanted to understand what he was feeling and that he wasn’t giving up on anybody. I said we could wait until he was ready to try again. And I told the coach that if he ever spoke to J like that again, that I would pull him off the field. I also told him to not push J into pitching again until he was ready. 

I wanted to make sure I was as supportive as I could be. And I was concerned about when he was going to want to come back and pitch again, but I wasn’t going to push him into anything. It took about two weeks for J to come to me and say he was ready to give it another shot. 

And the next game, he was a rock star. It was the best game he had ever pitched in his life. That's when I realized there was never a question he had the physical talent, it was whether he was mentally driven enough to accomplish what he could. That incident made me see that he had it in him.