by Ryan Krzykowski | Jul 11, 2022 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
I Can’t Believe I Get to Play by Ryan Krzykowski It’s that time of year — summer workouts, camps, etc., and a couple weeks back I had the chance to get out on the field for middle school football camp. It was four days in shorts with kids ages...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Jun 20, 2022 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Camp Smokey by Ryan Krzykowski/Sam Knopik Last week I received an email from Sam Knopik, a good friend and Head Football Coach at Pembroke Hill, a school in Kansas City. Sam had decided to loop me in on a camp adventure that he’d arranged for his players and...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
When It’s Over by Ryan Krzykowski This has been a really tough couple weeks — there’s no way around it. War continues in Europe, we lost more elementary school children to a shooter, and optimism is in short supply these days. It feels as if...
by Ryan Krzykowski | May 16, 2022 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Fear by Ryan Krzykowski “If you’re going to be scared, get off this field!” Did I really just yell that at a 13 year old? Man, I really screwed that up. What was I thinking? Where did that come from? It was the fall of 2016, and I was telling a...
by Ryan Krzykowski | May 2, 2022 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Notes by Ryan Krzykowski Five years ago I was teaching at a middle school and had the opportunity to coach a group of 7th grade boys in their fall football season. Going in, I had something of a connection with a decent number of those kids — either from having...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Apr 18, 2022 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Umps and Refs – follow up by Ryan Krzykowski Back in February I wrote a post called “An Open Letter to Youth Baseball Parents and Coaches“. While I’ve gotten a decent amount of very positive feedback, apparently there’s more work to be...
