‘Loud, obnoxious, rude:’ Unruly parents and uneven playing fields for coaches cause some to quit – InForum
Under the warm summer sun, hundreds of kids in brightly colored uniforms charged up and down soccer pitches in North Mankato on June 4 during Mankato United Soccer Club’s annual SoccerFest. On some of the fields of play, youth soccer teams from all over southern Minnesota competed against each other, while on other pitches, players […]
Under the warm summer sun, hundreds of kids in brightly colored uniforms charged up and down soccer pitches in North Mankato on June 4 during Mankato United Soccer Club’s annual SoccerFest.
On some of the fields of play, youth soccer teams from all over southern Minnesota competed against each other, while on other pitches, players engaged in practice drills kicking goals into the nets.
Officials’ whistles pierce the air as kids make their plays and coaches direct their teams, while the players’ biggest fans — their parents — cheer from the touchlines.
There’s a troubling trend within youth sports of coaches, referees and other game officials saying they’re facing more pressure, harsh criticism and conflict than ever before, and much of it is coming from parents.
It’s causing an increasing number of them to quit, as youth and high school sports clubs, teams, leagues say they’re having a more difficult time recruiting and retaining coaches.
A case in point — a successful and popular high school girls hockey coach in New Ulm recently announced he was quitting, and not because of the kids. He told the New Ulm Journal that he’d, “just grown tired of some of the parental behavior.”
Youth soccer players run up and down the pitch while Hisham Sorour, director of coaching of Mankato United Soccer Club points out some plays during the annual SoccerFest.
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Parental pressure and unruly behavior isn’t a new problem in youth sports, but some coaches believe it’s more visible in the age of social media where families can now stream sporting events and there’s easier ways to get involved. There’s potential for disputes to be dragged out onto online forums rather than handled in-person.
Rob Pipal, 69, is vice president of Mankato United Soccer’s Competitive League and he coached the sport for almost 50 years. When his daughter played for the club, Pipal admits he crossed the line himself — not as a coach, but as a parent.
“I was yelling at her at a game, I wasn’t coaching, but I was yelling from a parent’s perspective, yelling, ‘Hey do this. Hey, do that. You gotta do this!,’” Pipal said. “And then after the game, she said, ‘Dad, shut up. Let me play. If I want to know some information, you can tell me when we go home. But, don’t do that.’”
But, Pipal says it was a lesson learned and brought some perspective.
“I think some of that has gotten a little lost,” he said. “All the yelling really doesn’t fix anything. You just have to encourage and be very supportive and be very positive, and things go well for most kids.”
Other parents haven’t gotten the message. Coaches in every corner of the state and in many different sports say they’re getting an earful from parents complaining about their kids’ playing time, how practices are run, game strategies, and especially when their child athlete gets cut from a top team.
Northfield hockey coach Chris Walker, 44, says he’s seen and heard it all, including parents screaming and swearing at him and referees from the stands. During one away game this season, the other side noticed.
“Somebody was in the stands or something and heard these parents being loud, obnoxious, [and] rude,” Walker said. “And called someone in our association and said, ‘Hey, you know your parents on this team are out of hand.’”
Walker says he still loves coaching, but with some parents so focused on winning and making their kid a star player, he feels the things that should matter more, like skill development, team building and fair play, are getting lost in the shuffle.
“I want [kids] to have fun, and I want all of them to come back next year,” he said. “And then we have the parents watching the scoreboard, watching, and it just, I feel like it creates a mixed message.”
Some coaches who started in the 1990s say it’s harder now being a coach, and the expectations parents have for their kids are also different. Paul Clark, 50, an assistant varsity football coach in Pillager, said there are parents spending thousands of dollars on youth sports, training camps and competitive leagues.
“The type of athlete we have now compared to when I was in high school, I don’t know if I would be able to compete if I was in high school compared to these high school kids,” Clark said. “It brings that, ‘I spent all this money, and now I expect my kid to perform,’ and so it brings a challenge.”
These challenges, Clark said, and the long hours away from home, give coaches and officials little reason to stay, especially when they are paid so little, or not at all, as many coaches are volunteers. When they’ve had enough, many choose to quit, and Clark said that’s understandable if there’s not much support and respect within the school or organization to retain them.
“Nobody likes to get their reputation tarnished, no one likes to have people question them,” Clark said. “The pressures of having to spend time away from their own family, their own life to go to all these camps and be in the weight room for a couple hours a day and take time away from your summer, off-season, all that adds up.
Even those paid a stipend, “If you look at it per hour, it’s peanuts,” Clark told MPR News. “It ain’t worth it to them.”
Clark said he’s now found a balance after 27 years of coaching, and he focuses on the parents who do support him. It works for him.
“I try to remember that the vast majority, for every one parent that’s disgruntled, there’s probably 20 that are extremely supportive,” he said. “They want what’s best for their kid. They understand that there’s going to be some struggles. They understand that it’s not easy. If it was easy, everyone would be a star.”
With many of their members reporting frustration from these escalating pressures and conflicts, the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association is gathering data on coaching turnover to figure out what’s driving coaches to quit. Rick Ringeisen, executive director of the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association, said they hope the data paints a clearer picture.
“Coaches feel more pressure today than they ever had before, and they feel that it’s coming from lots of different directions,” Ringeisen said. “It’s from their players, it’s from the parents, it’s from the administration, and not all of them feel they’re being treated fairly.”
Once the results are released in a few weeks, Ringeisen says they plan to share the data with the Minnesota State High School League among other partners and sports groups.
“Parents, their primary interest is their child as it should be, which is exactly how we want it to be,” Ringeisen said. “Coaches, they have to look out for the entire team. And those two ideologies or feelings are not always harmonious with one another, and that can be difficult to navigate.”
It’s become such a big problem across the country that one of the opening seminar sessions at the upcoming National High School Athletic Coaches Association annual conference next weekend is “Dealing with Difficult Parents.”
Despite the negativity this past season, Northfield hockey coach Chris Walker says he still finds support from other parents who do appreciate him — and they’ve let him know that their kids do, too. It is in these moments that he finds joy in what he does.
A parent let him know that a pep talk Walker had with their child and inviting him to play goalie for a team of older kids made a huge difference. Walker said they won a game and tied the other.
“In a big, long text at the end of the year from a dad, he says, ‘I want you to know that you hit at just the right time to prove to him that he’s good and to make him still love hockey,’” Walker said. “It was probably one of the coolest messages I’ve ever gotten from a parent.”
The Mankato United Soccer Club lost two coaches over the last years due to parental behavior, said Hisham Sorour, director of coaching.
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Many youth sports organizations are being proactive, too. After losing two coaches because of parental behavior, Mankato United Soccer established a new code of conduct for this season. Everyone signed it: the kids, the coaches — and the parents, said Hisham Sorour, director of coaching. He says the goal is to set boundaries, protect and support the players and the coaches, and keep the games fun.
“You’re coming in to enjoy your son or your daughter,” Sorour said. “Enjoy [the game]. If you have a coaching point, let’s do it your way back home when you’re [on] a car ride.”
So far it seems to be working. Sorour says his coaches are telling him that this has been one of the most enjoyable and least stressful seasons in years.
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Long Beach PONY All-Stars Fall in Super Regional Championship – The562.org
The Long Beach PONY 14s All-Stars out of Whaley Park saw another deep Summer run come to an end a few games earlier than they would have liked, as the local boys fell in the championship of the Super Regional Tournament in Covina. Long Beach was one win away from advancing to the Zone Tournament, […]
The Long Beach PONY 14s All-Stars out of Whaley Park saw another deep Summer run come to an end a few games earlier than they would have liked, as the local boys fell in the championship of the Super Regional Tournament in Covina. Long Beach was one win away from advancing to the Zone Tournament, the ultimate qualifier for the PONY World Series.
Whaley is the four-time World Series champions having won the nation’s best 14s tournament in 1959, 1965, 2008, and 2012 and have made five World Series trips since 2007; Long Beach was the runner-ups in the World Series in 2018. Rival park Heartwell made a World Series run in 2024 at the 14s level.
The Whaley 14s advanced to the Super Regional Tournament with a championship win in the Regional Tournament over South Bay, 16-0. Long Beach scored in every inning of a four-inning mercy rule victory, leading 10-0 after two innings. Mathew Pinedo threw 3.1 innings of one-hit shutout baseball, and Jacob Gonzalez closed out the last two outs of the fourth inning to finish the shutout.
Six players had multi-hit games for Whaley as Cooper Kaiser (2/3 3 RBIs), William Turner (3/4) Brayton Paculba (3/4 3 RBIs), Pinedo (3/4 4 RBIs), Kaenon Mulhearn (2/3 2 RBIs), and Leonard Graham IV (2/3) all had big offensive games.
Long Beach opened this week’s Super Regional Tournament in Covina with wins over High Desert (15-0), Santa Monica (8-3), and Covina (11-4). That put them into a championship game against Simi Valley, which Whaley lost 4-1 behind an impressive pitching performance from Simi Valley’s Trenten Nelson (6 innings pitched, 10 strikeouts, one earned run). Connor Barragan pitched well as usual for Whaley but yielded three earned runs in 3.1 innings pitched, striking out seven.
That set up a consolation championship game with host Covina, with the winner punching the second ticket to the Zone Tournament. Paculba, Gonzalez, and Dylan Stubblebine pitched well, and Long Beach outhit Covina 10-7, but found themselves trailing 3-0 going to the bottom of the seventh.
RBI hits from Kaiser and PInedo brought the Whaley boys within a run, but they ended up falling short, 3-2, to end their season.
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Elsmere 6-year-old frontrunner for Russell Wilson’s Youth Athlete of the Year
A youth football team in Erlanger has a rising star on its hands.A 6-year-old running back for the Erlanger Lions is now a front runner in NFL star Russell Wilson’s Youth Athlete of the Year Championship Experience.If he wins, he’ll take home a life-changing prize.Deonte Pinnell is small but mighty, and he’s ready to take […]
A youth football team in Erlanger has a rising star on its hands.A 6-year-old running back for the Erlanger Lions is now a front runner in NFL star Russell Wilson’s Youth Athlete of the Year Championship Experience.If he wins, he’ll take home a life-changing prize.Deonte Pinnell is small but mighty, and he’s ready to take the football world by storm.His mother, Charissa Pinnell, says she submitted him for the championship experience after seeing a post online. Now, he’s in first place.”When he was a baby, we dressed him up as a football; he’s always loved football, not really any other sport. This is just always the one he wanted to play,” Charissa said.If he wins, he’ll take home a $25,000 prize and get to be the star of a Sports Illustrated Magazine shoot.Charissa said this would change his life.”There’s only been one of us to go off to college, so for him that’s really big for me,” Charissa said. “This would help us a lot.”From a college career to following in the footsteps of his idols, Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, this little guy has big dreams.Deonte is competing against 45 other kids from all over the U.S. He needs to stay at the top for at least another week to move onto the top 20. To vote, click here.
ERLANGER, Ky. —
A youth football team in Erlanger has a rising star on its hands.
A 6-year-old running back for the Erlanger Lions is now a front runner in NFL star Russell Wilson’s Youth Athlete of the Year Championship Experience.
If he wins, he’ll take home a life-changing prize.
Deonte Pinnell is small but mighty, and he’s ready to take the football world by storm.
His mother, Charissa Pinnell, says she submitted him for the championship experience after seeing a post online. Now, he’s in first place.
“When he was a baby, we dressed him up as a football; he’s always loved football, not really any other sport. This is just always the one he wanted to play,” Charissa said.
If he wins, he’ll take home a $25,000 prize and get to be the star of a Sports Illustrated Magazine shoot.
Charissa said this would change his life.
“There’s only been one of us to go off to college, so for him that’s really big for me,” Charissa said. “This would help us a lot.”
From a college career to following in the footsteps of his idols, Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, this little guy has big dreams.
Deonte is competing against 45 other kids from all over the U.S. He needs to stay at the top for at least another week to move onto the top 20. To vote, click here.
Besties Lemonade Stand on Mizuktata. Photo by Krystal Hensley. Lemonade Yum Stand on Mizuktata. Photo by Krystal Hensley One of Nome’s favorite summertime events returned mid June with Mizuktata, originally called Lemonade Day. Each year, colorfully decorated tables and excited kids line the streets of Nome to sell homemade treats. From desserts like local favorite […]
Besties Lemonade Stand on Mizuktata. Photo by Krystal Hensley.Lemonade Yum Stand on Mizuktata. Photo by Krystal Hensley
One of Nome’s favorite summertime events returned mid June with Mizuktata, originally called Lemonade Day. Each year, colorfully decorated tables and excited kids line the streets of Nome to sell homemade treats.
From desserts like local favorite blueberry delight – a sweet treat made with whipped cream, graham crackers, and handpicked berries – there’s polish dogs, cold brew coffee, and of course, lemonade.
Krystal Hensley who organized the event said Mizuktata isn’t just about the tasty food and sweet drinks – it’s about creating opportunities for the kids.
“I know a lot of kids utilize this day to fundraise for their summer sports or sports throughout the season,” Hensley said. “Feel like they’re always fundraising, so this is a great opportunity for them to do that, and the community is a great support.”
Saquon Barkley joins Trump’s push for youth fitness, revival of Presidential Fitness Test in schools
Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley has been named to President Trump’s council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, joining the President’s renewed push for youth fitness and the revival of the once-standard Presidential Fitness Test in schools. On Thursday, President Trump reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public schools for […]
Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley has been named to President Trump’s council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, joining the President’s renewed push for youth fitness and the revival of the once-standard Presidential Fitness Test in schools.
On Thursday, President Trump reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public schools for decades that gauged young people’s health and athleticism with 1-mile runs, sit-ups and stretching exercises.
“This is a wonderful tradition, and we’re bringing it back,” Trump said of the fitness test that began in 1966 but was phased out during the Obama administration.
An executive order he signed Thursday also reinvigorates a national sports council that the president stocked with former and current athletes and other figures from the sports world.
Barkley, who did not attend the event Thursday, was among several prominent athletes who joined Trump and top administration officials, including allies such as friend and pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau and others who’ve attracted controversy, such as former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor.
Other renowned sports figures on the council who did not attend the event Thursday include retired golfers Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League.
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, from left, professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau, WWE CCO Triple H and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. watch, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.
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It’s the latest athletics-related push from Trump, an avid golfer who remains enthralled with the world of sports.
“I was always a person that loved playing sports. I was good at sports,” Trump said. “When you are really focused on sports, you’ve thought about nothing else. To an extent, this is one of the reasons I like golf. You get away for a couple of hours.”
The announcement also came as Trump readies the United States to host the 2025 Ryder Cup, 2026 FIFA World Cup games and the 2028 Summer Olympics. He also signed a different executive order earlier this month mandating that federal authorities clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of the schools they play for.
Trump on Thursday said the council, known formally as the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, will also deal with various issues on college athletics, such as the transfer portal that has more easily allowed athletes to switch from school to school. The council, which will have up to 30 members, will also develop criteria for a Presidential Fitness Award. The fitness test will be administered by his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In the test, children had to run and perform situps, pullups or pushups, and a sit-and-reach test, but the program changed in 2012. It evolved into the Youth Fitness Program, which the government said “moved away from recognizing athletic performance to providing a barometer on students’ health.” Then-first lady, Michelle Obama, also promoted her “Let’s Move” initiative focused on reducing childhood obesity through diet and exercise.
The Youth Fitness Test, according to a Health and Human Services Department website last updated in 2023 but still online Thursday, “minimizes comparisons between children and instead supports students as they pursue personal fitness goals for lifelong health.”
Former NFL football player Lawrence Taylor, right, speaks as President Donald Trump, from left, and WWE CCO Triple H listen during an event signing an executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.
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Among those who joined Trump on Thursday, in addition to Barkley, DeChambeau and Taylor, were Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker; Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam; and WWE legend Paul “Triple H” Levesque, the son-in-law of Trump’s education secretary, Linda McMahon.
Taylor, who has appeared on stage with Trump at campaign rallies, pleaded guilty in New York in 2011 to misdemeanor criminal charges of sexual misconduct. He was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. He was arrested in 2021 in Broward County, Florida, and charged with failing to report a change of residence as a sex offender. He later pleaded no contest to an amended charge, was ordered to pay $261 in court fees, and the case was closed, court records show.
“I’m just proud to be on this team,” Taylor said as he briefly took the microphone at the signing. “I don’t know why, I don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing, but I’m here to serve. And I’m here to serve you.”
The NFL distanced itself from comments Butker made last year during a commencement address at a Kansas college, when he said most of the women receiving degrees were probably more excited about getting married and having children than entering the workforce and that some Catholic leaders were “pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.” Butker also assailed Pride Month and railed against Democratic President Joe Biden’s stance on abortion.
Butker later formed a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for what the PAC describes as “traditional values.”
Sorenstam faced backlash for accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump on Jan. 7, 2021, the day after rioters spurred by Trump’s false claims about his election loss to Biden stormed the Capitol in Washington.
The return of the exam brought mixed reactions from some who study exercise.
Trump is putting a welcome focus on physical activity, but a test alone won’t make America’s children healthier, said Laura Richardson, a kinesiology professor at the University of Michigan. The exam is only a starting point that should be paired with lessons to help all students improve, she said.
“It’s not just, you get a score and you’re doomed,” said Richardson, whose teaching focuses on obesity. “But you get a score, and we can figure out a program that really helps the improvement.”
Northwest Sports Update: New-look M’s shutout Rangers, Bells begin final road trip, another youth baseball team reaches national tournament and more
It was a joyful return to T-Mobile Park for Eugenio Suarez last night. Mariners News The Mariners are playing the Rangers tonight in Game 2 of their four-game series. The new-look M’s offense hammered Texas last night 6-0 behind six shutout innings from George Kirby. Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 42nd homer of the […]
It was a joyful return to T-Mobile Park for Eugenio Suarez last night.
Mariners News
The Mariners are playing the Rangers tonight in Game 2 of their four-game series. The new-look M’s offense hammered Texas last night 6-0 behind six shutout innings from George Kirby.
Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 42nd homer of the season and Cole Young added a mammoth 470-foot bomb in the win. Eugenio Suarez also hit a double and scored a run in his first game back as a Mariner. Ben Williamson was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma to make room for Geno.
The bad news coming out of yesterday’s game is that reliever Trent Thornton was carted off the field in the ninth inning after falling on his way to cover first base. The Mariners placed him on the 15-day injured list today with a torn left Achilles tendon, effectively ending his season.
The M’s will look to take another pivotal division game against the Rangers tonight with Logan Gilbert on the mound. Coverage begins at 6:00 and first pitch is at 7:10 on KPUG.
Mariners fans just received long-awaited injury updates on two key players.
President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto says starting pitcher Bryce Miller is loosely scheduled to make his first rehab appearance tonight. Miller has been on the injured list since June 10 with inflammation and a bone spit in his right elbow.
There’s still no date for his expected return to the majors, but it will likely be at some point in August.
Meanwhile, outfielder Victor Robles took batting practice on Wednesday for the first time since getting injured. He’s been out since early April after fracturing his shoulder during a highlight-reel catch.
Dipoto says Robles could end up making his return in September, but any setback between now and then would likely end his season.
Bells News
The Bells are back in action tonight for their penultimate regular season series of the year.
They’re in Wenatchee for the start of a three-game series against their North Division rival AppleSox.
The Bells are coming off a tight series loss at home to the Kelowna Falcons where they fumbled a big lead late in their rubber match on Wednesday.
While the Bells have clinched home field advantage for their first playoff series next weekend, they still need to win the North Division overall season standings to host the Divisional Championship if they make it that far.
They currently trail the first-place Edmonton Riverhawks by half a game.
Tonight’s game against Wenatchee gets underway at 6:35.
The Bells return home on Monday for the start of their final regular season series.
Sounders News
The Sounders blanked Cruz Azul 7-0 yesterday in their opening match of the Leagues Cup tournament.
It was a statement win over a Cruz Azul club that won the CONCACAF Champions Cup earlier this year.
The Sounders are on a seven-game unbeaten streak since bowing out of the FIFA Club World Cup.
They’ll continue Phase One play of the tournament against Mexico’s Santos Laguna at Lumen Field on Sunday.
NFL News
The Los Angeles Chargers spanked the Detroit Lions 34-7 last night in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game.
LA scored a touchdown less than three minutes into the game and never looked back to open the NFL preseason with a win.
The preseason continues with three more games next Thursday, including Pete Carroll’s return to Seattle when the Seahawks host the Raiders in the nightcap.
Youth Sports News
Another local little league team is making headlines.
The Whatcom Prep 14U Babe Ruth team earned a finalist spot at regionals last weekend and has been invited to represent the Pacific Northwest in the Babe Ruth World Series. The tournament runs from Aug. 7 through the 17th in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
They’re raising $20,000 to cover expenses for players to get there. You can use this link to donate to the team.
The team is also having a fundraiser event tomorrow (Saturday) with a car wash at Ferndale Grocery Outlet.
