Teens & Young Adults
Articles mainly about teenagers, students and young adults: growing up, peer pressure, choices, guidance for young people.
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Your Beliefs Dictate Your Behavior
Behavior is the result of a person’s beliefs. In my early years coaching basketball and counseling families, it became clear to me the most important key to effective education is knowing this principle: If you wish to change…
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Miraculous Power
My dad started a practice of letter writing at camp and for the last fifty-plus summers, student-athletes pause during the week to write a letter to a family member or key mentor.
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Seeds of Faith
Some of my daughter’s friends are incredibly kind and remarkable people. They do not know what they believe about faith. They are curious but feel inadequate in the face of deciding what to believe.
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Good Judgment
If you fly to Oklahoma City, you will see a famous quote by Will Rogers: “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” Dad was a phenomenal teacher of good judgment for…
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Dear Parents of Teens
When my daughter Natalya turned fourteen, our relationship didn’t feel the same. I felt like she didn’t want to connect, and I wanted to blame her. I read books about teens.
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Stop Being a Bully — Start Being a Friend
October is Bully Prevention Month . What better month could there be because October comes soon after the start of a new school year?
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Basketball, a Small Town Religion
Anacortes is a small fishing, lumber town in northwest Washington. This community has lived, breathed, and died basketball. It has been the town religion.
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A Teen’s Four Most Enemies
Military battles, sports, and music competitions all demand mind management and self-regulation skill training and development. It is said that elite, world-class stars in sports or the arts practice more than 10,000 hours.
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Boys to Men
Words of Wisdom for All Boys Dr. James Jones, a leader of youth, once told me, “There are four vital foundations to govern your life by.” Control your environment.
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Winning Is Not Luck or Accidental
“That was a fluke!” When someone said that, did you believe them? Was it a freak course of nature? Yet, winning is never pure luck or accidental. Rather, winning is learned behavior .
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Valid Identification, Part 1
In today’s culture, we are virtually helpless to operate successfully without proper identification. ID’s and passwords have the potential to control our lives. Don’t believe me?
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The Wise Parent
The wise parent knows and understands that the ultimate test of successful parenting is the day when their son or daughter has matured to the place the parent(s) is able to say… “Amazing child you now are ready…
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Resistance to Self-improvement
During NBC Camps’ summer athletic camps, we are exposed to thousands of campers’ lives. We learn from them, and we challenge them to face their challenges. In fact, FACE YOUR CHALLENGE was our 2018 theme.
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Win at School
Millions of USA students enroll in schools across the continent in September with the hope of winning! Unfortunately, far too many will lose the battle to win. Questions: Why so many failures?
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Defeating Anorexia Addiction, Part 2
As a child, when my mom asked me to sweep the kitchen floor, it was most convenient to sweep the crumbs under the rug so they would not be seen.
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Your Eternal Impact
Questions: What impacts a person the most? What lasts the longest in a person’s life? The answers may well be different for each person.
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Prime over 50
by: Darin Burt / in Prime Living , Spokane CDA Living Fred Crowell, 76 Every winning coach has a game plan and a playbook.
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GIVING TUESDAY – A Personal Invitation from Fred Crowell
After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s time to give back! Giving Tuesday is today! It is the charitable counterpart. For us, it is the opportunity to share the gift of influencing youth positively at athletic camps.
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Crave the World
Not tobacco, alcohol, drugs, moral failure, apathy, dishonesty, laziness, bitterness, jealousy, anger, anything that takes you away from your full potential. Darrell Garrison Junior second generation NBC student from Bethel Alaska.
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Hello Metlakatla
HelloMetlakatla, Alaska Students, Parents, Teachers, Administrators and School Board Members, The 2018-19 school year is here! Can we make it the best school year in the history of the miracle Annette Island family of people?
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Tstvs-life Savings Letters
5 letters to memorize in this order T = TAKE S = SUICIDE T = THREATS V = VERY S = SERIOUSLY Take Suicide threats very seriously!
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Good Brag Bad Brag
So vividly the memory of a bad brag rests in my memory bank. It was my 9th-grade year; basketball was the brag.
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Failure: Future, Present, Past
FACT: Future failure is fearful; Present failure is painful; Past failure is funny. True story. As a boy, one of my weaknesses was doing stupid things when people said, “ I dare you.
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Game Changer –
One who turns the course of a life, event, or history. In sports, Curry, Brady, Felix, Bird, Mantle, MJ, Ruth and Magic qualify as game changers. In history, Churchill looms large as a game changer.
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Is High School a Joke?
Nearly 25% of high school students at a large school district in the state of Washington skip school every day.
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Brave New World
There is a new world out there for you. It is a world of possibilities. Joy beyond belief and opportunity with no ceiling waits for all. Wallace Ungwiluk has come to brave a new world.
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Young Lions
A young lion is a boy/man who is hungry, dedicated, loyal, hard-working, and willing to do what it takes to become a trustworthy man I called these rare type of boys/men young lions because the lion is the…
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Today’s Pain Can Be Tomorrow’s Gain
“You raise me up to more than I can be.” -Josh Groban I vividly remember the first time I had to deal with a person who attempted suicide. The year was 1964.
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Men of Valor
The two essential qualities of mentor leadership are proven track record and worthy of being imitated. For rapid recall of these two dynamic, life-changing principles I call them PTR & WOBI.
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Meet My Head Coach
Thank you, Jill Logie, daughter of Coach Ed Pepple, one of the USA’s most successful high school coach and leaders of young men. Jill is the mother of Whitworth University’s men’s nationally acclaimed basketball program.
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The Wonder of Youth
One day I was a player; next a coach; then a father and now Papa to hundreds of young players who love basketball and LIFEBALL!
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Coach Crowell on April to November Basketball
Key Statement: School ball season is ALL about the team. The player sacrifices for the team. Off-season is all about the player; not the team. In-season selfishness is team poison.
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True Grit
“People can see the size of your body but no one can see the size of your heart.” March madness is the time for basketball.
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Basketball – Madness
“The game I love can be so cruel” -F. Crowell Basketball became the love of my life in fourth grade. Anacortes, Washington, a small town on Fidalgo Island was a hotbed for good basketball.
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Attention Must Be Paid
“The price tag to get noticed is; good behavior, bad behavior, illness, or getting injured.” – F. Crowell Other people’s attention is as strong a human need as oxygen, food, and water.
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Shadows in This Life
“Mr. E, something evil walks our streets. It is a shadow.” – Lydia, elderly Yupik Woman The Words of Hope, “Suicide Is like a Ghost Killer” brought me as much attention from my readers as any HOPES I…
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National Treasures
The United States of America’s most valuable and most neglected resources. American’s treasure is youth. Adults deplore looking old. New and young are the trophies of today. Heaven forbid growing old.
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So Hard, to So Easy
Hard work pays off 14 plus years ago in the birthing room at Sacred Heart Hospital, the doctors went into emergency mode hoping to save Ariana Alexis Crowell / Ferch’s new life.
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NO!!! no, no, no.
At the Crowell’s there is a big difference between NO! and no, no, no. Early in my teaching and coaching career, the following story impacted me.
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The Dumbing Down of America
“You either rise up and cross the bar, or you lower the bar to cross it.” Essentially, there are two ways in life to have success: 1. You get better, you compete and you excel. 2.
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So Easy
So easy has become the favorite expression after a shot is made among our amazing 15 year old Chinese boys Basketball team in Jiaozuo, China. An elegant question: When does so hard become so easy ?
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Paper Boy Story
Every boy has a dream, every boy is a miracle, every boy has failures, every boy deserves a real chance to make their dream come true.
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TIME TO BRAG – Time to be quiet
Until you become a grandparent you cannot understand the urge to brag to the point of ad nauseum about your grand children. No wonder we call them Grand .
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Love Kids Love Kids
“Come to me as a little child.” – Jesus My days are filled with wonder and joy, because I’m living in the world of kids. Kids who want to become men and women.
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Crowell Basketball System
CROWELL BASKETBALL SYSTEM IF EXPECTATIONS DO NOT EXCEED OUTCOME, UNHAPPINESS IS THE RESULT. This is the reason a high majority of high school basketball players rate their experience as unhappy. Crowell has a solution!
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Life Ball
Hello All, Each day I dedicate myself to my meaning and purpose for living. Love God Love Life Love People July 20 to 23 at Skagit Valley College I have the profound privilege to coach/teach/inspire, encourage as many…
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Meet Wallace Ungwiluk, the Stephen Curry of the Bering Sea
Wallace attended NBC Camps all star and College Prep Camp (Crowell Intensity Camp) which NBC’s premier basketball experience featuring excellent players from all over the world.
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Food for Thought
Basketball has two seasons: school ball; off season ball. In each season there are two options. The focus is either on building a great team, or working on individual skills to improve.
