Leadership Skill Development Leadership skills can be taught. SportsChallenge has a proven, trademarked curriculum to help you become a better leader. Our experienced educators and leadership specialists developed this curriculum which now includes five distinct leadership classes at our Summer Academy. Additionally, we offer six leadership workshops for aspiring high school and college leaders. As a result of our leadership training, your coaches, teammates, teachers, family and friends will recognize your new skills and confidence; they will call upon you to be a leader. Through SportsChallenge classes, seminars and workshops, you'll learn techniques and tools that will help you to: resolve conflicts, communicate more effectively, focus under pressure, move forward after a mistake, motivate yourself, motivate others, create a leadership vision, craft specific goals, follow when needed and be more assertive. Sports Psychology and College Counseling In addition to the leadership classes at the SC Summer Academy, student-athletes participate in professionally crafted sports psychology classes with specific tools reinforced on the fields and courts. Rising juniors and seniors can also enroll in seminars that guide them through the college selection process. Trained college counselors work with student-athletes who need assistance negotiating the recruiting process—from NCAA eligibility and communication with college coaches to sorting through what schools and levels are a good match. We also run college seminars for our student-athletes who lack the general college guidance within their school environment; we take them through the entire process including: what tests are needed, how to prepare for an interview, keys to effective essay writing and counsel regarding financial aid. The SportsChallenge Way At SportsChallenge (SC), the classes and workshops are always team-taught by trained educators. This allows us to have an extraordinary student-athlete to coach ratio—our average classroom is 8:1. All SC classrooms and workshops are dynamic, interactive and engaging with hands-on, kinesthetic exercises. All student-athletes receive detailed workbooks for in-class use and future reference. Many SC alumni report that they use their SportsChallenge leadership binders to guide them in their future roles as varsity captains and team leaders. Others have let us know that they continue to use our materials on their college teams and to assist them in other college leadership roles such as leading a campus newspaper, a community service initiative or a fundraising venture. We prepare students for their next leadership steps—next month and years down the road. -Click here to find out about the SportsChallenge Summer Academy. -Click here to find out about SportsChallenge Leadership Workshops. -Click here to find out about SC Custom Designed Seminars.