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Playbook Podcast for Parents
Life Skills, Leadership, Mental Performance, Nutrition, Parenting
The Playbook podcast for parents features bite-sized coach-led sessions on topics like nutrition, mental performance, and more. Gain insights from expert coaches from IMG Academy as they provide practical strategies to help you support your child's journey in sports and life.
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Fueling Picky Eaters
6 min
September 18, 2025 | Jeanne Hendricks | Nutrition, Parenting
In this session, Coach Jeanne explores how to fuel picky teen athletes. Learn why picky eating peaks in adolescence, what nutrients support performance, and simple ways to build balanced meals from foods they enjoy. Plus, Coach shares when picky eating might signal a deeper issue and how to know when it’s time to seek professional support.
Cultivating A Growth Mindset
5 min
September 18, 2025 | Dr. Derek Marr | Parenting, Mental Performance
In this session, Coach Derek explains how parents can cultivating a growth mindset in student-athletes. He defines growth vs. fixed mindsets, offers strategies like modeling, praising effort over results, reframing setbacks as learning opportunities, and creating a safe space for mistakes to foster resilience and confidence.
Raising Resilient Athletes
6 min
September 18, 2025 | Dr. Derek Marr | Parenting, Mental Performance
In this session, Coach Derek discusses building resilience in young athletes, emphasizing that it's a learnable skill. He provides practical advice for parents, including modeling calm responses, normalizing struggle, and praising effort. Tools such as Post-Event Reflection and positive self-talk are also covered.
Why Sleep Matters
6 min
September 18, 2025 | Dr. Derek Marr | Parenting
In this session, coach Derek explains why sleep is the ultimate performance booster for youth athletes. It repairs muscles, sharpens focus, improves mood, and reduces the risk of injury. Strong bodies start with rested minds. Listen to find out how you can make sleep part of your athlete’s training plan.
What is Performance Nutrition?
4 min
September 18, 2025 | Max Dadswell | Parenting, Nutrition
In this session, Coach Max defines performance nutrition for student-athletes, differentiating it from general healthy eating practices. He’ll cover how to fuel for training, recovery, and competition, debunk common myths, and offer simple tips for parents to support their athletes at home.
What Your Words Tell Your Athlete
7 min
September 18, 2025 | Dr. Peter Paciorek | Parenting
Dr. Pete Paciorek and Coach Richard Thompson explore how parental reactions after games shape young athletes' relationship with sports, discussing the invisible scoreboard running in every child's mind and how to respond with purpose.
The Playbook podcast for parents features bite-sized coach-led sessions on topics like nutrition, mental performance, and more. Gain insights from expert coaches from IMG Academy as they provide practical strategies to help you support your child's journey in sports and life.
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Learn more about the coaches in this series
Jeanne Hendricks
Performance Dietitian
Jeanne is an IMG Academy Performance Dietitian who started her nutrition journey as a Division I student-athlete at Towson University. There, she experienced firsthand the transformative impact of nutrition on optimizing athletic performance and supporting overall well-being. She then worked as a health teacher in Carroll County, Maryland, and later as an assistant softball coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She has dedicated herself to providing athlete-centered nutrition education for high-school and collegiate athletes in individual and group settings. She is passionate about empowering athletes to optimize their health, wellness, and performance through science-based, realistic, and sustainable strategies.
Dr. Derek Marr
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and the University of Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles. He's passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.
Dr. Derek Marr
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and the University of Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles. He's passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.
Dr. Derek Marr
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and the University of Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles. He's passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.
Max Dadswell
Performance Dietitian
Max Dadswell is a performance dietitian from Hershey, Pennsylvania, with a strong academic foundation built at Penn State University, where he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nutritional Sciences. His professional journey includes experience with elite athletic organizations such as Penn State Football, the Kansas City Royals, and Orlando City Soccer Club. Since January 2025, Max has been based on campus at IMG Academy, where he has supported the nutrition needs of student-athletes across multiple sports, including boys and girls soccer, volleyball, baseball, and football.
Dr. Peter Paciorek
Leadership Coach
Dr. Pete Paciorek, Ed.D., is the Head of Leadership & Character Development at IMG Academy, the world leader in sports education. He is passionate about supporting students, athletes, educators, coaches, and parents in effective long-term pedagogy to cultivate positive youth development. At IMG Academy, Dr. Paciorek is responsible for designing and leading character development programs that help students form well-rounded identities, overcome challenges, uplift one another and their communities, and achieve success both on and off the field. He works closely with all middle-school and high-school students at the academy, as well as with students in every grade during IMG Academy’s sports training camps, and with other coaches and educators in the development of IMG Academy pedagogy.
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Performance Dietitian
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Dr. Derek Marr
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and the University of Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles. He's passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.
Dr. Derek Marr
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and the University of Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles. He's passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.
Dr. Derek Marr
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and the University of Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles. He's passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.
Max Dadswell
Performance Dietitian
Max Dadswell is a performance dietitian from Hershey, Pennsylvania, with a strong academic foundation built at Penn State University, where he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nutritional Sciences. His professional journey includes experience with elite athletic organizations such as Penn State Football, the Kansas City Royals, and Orlando City Soccer Club. Since January 2025, Max has been based on campus at IMG Academy, where he has supported the nutrition needs of student-athletes across multiple sports, including boys and girls soccer, volleyball, baseball, and football.
Dr. Peter Paciorek
Leadership Coach
Dr. Pete Paciorek, Ed.D., is the Head of Leadership & Character Development at IMG Academy, the world leader in sports education. He is passionate about supporting students, athletes, educators, coaches, and parents in effective long-term pedagogy to cultivate positive youth development. At IMG Academy, Dr. Paciorek is responsible for designing and leading character development programs that help students form well-rounded identities, overcome challenges, uplift one another and their communities, and achieve success both on and off the field. He works closely with all middle-school and high-school students at the academy, as well as with students in every grade during IMG Academy’s sports training camps, and with other coaches and educators in the development of IMG Academy pedagogy.
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Your Coach
IMG Academy+ Coaches
Coaching Team
A Parent's Guide to Performance Nutrition
Performance Fuel for Picky Eaters
Post-Competition Fueling for Recovery
The Parenting Collection
Conquering Pre-Competition Anxiety
Building a Growth Mindset in Your Athlete
Creating a Resilient Athlete
Parenting For Good In Sports And Life
The Nutrition Collection