Stocking Stuffer for your Youth Athlete

The best stocking stuffer your child will receive!

Play Like A Champion Today(TM) is offering a discount on its exclusive "Player Handbook." This is a tool for youth sport athletes, ages 8-14, designed to maximize the youth sport experience. The handbook guides athletes in setting goals and understanding the value of practice. It also highlights values such as teamwork, justice and sportsmanship. The handbook includes journal pages for your athlete to track his/her progress throughout a sport season. This handbook will facilitate your athlete's growth: physically, mentally, and spiritually through sport. Normally priced at $5, we are offering the Handbook through December 31, 2009 for $4, including shipping and handling.

Order your Player Handbook today by emailing plc@nd.edu with your address or through our office (574)631-9981.

Merry Christmas from PLC to you!

Connecting Spirituality within Sport: The PLC High School Athlete Retreat

Notre Dame High School in St. Louis, MO in partnership with Play Like A Champion Today(TM)is conducting retreats for their student athletes. Athletic Director, Ed Behr, and Campus Minister, Liz Miller, have united to conduct retreats at the beginning of each athletic season: fall, winter and spring. I had the pleasure to be a part of their winter retreat. Athletes took a break from studying for finals and came together to pray, to reflect upon who they are as people and as teammates and to set goals on who they want to become throughout the sport season. The athletes also heard testimony from a former collegiate soccer player on how he became more fully Christian through his sport experience, despite ever present pressures.

"Thus, I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing." 1 Cor. 9:26). The retreat served as a break from the business of a high school athlete's life filled with school work, exams, practice, games and other commitments. It offered a time and a space to reflect upon God's role in sport and how God is forming these young athletes to become disciples not only on their team, but in the world.