Girl drama is happening on your team. Put a proactive system in place to address it before it costs you. For more coaching resources check out the championship program membership → https://champions.elitecompetitor.com/ 

Team tension doesn't fix itself. It gets worse. And most coaches don't find out until the season is already falling apart. 

🙋‍♀️ Hi, I'm Coach Bre, a certified Mental Performance Coach and former collegiate athlete with 14 years of coaching experience, including 4 state championships. I'm also the co-founder of The Elite Competitor and host of the Coach Her Game podcast, where I help coaches strengthen their athlete's mental game so they can perform their best when it matters most.   

👤 My guest is Sheri Gazitt. She founded Teen Wise 15 years ago after 30 years in psychology. Sheri specializes in helping teen girls navigate friendships, team dynamics, and mean girl behavior through private coaching, community presentations, and her Game On webinar for coaches.  

In this episode, Sheri and I discuss drama and how to proactively and successfully navigate it. She gave our athletes 10 responses to mean girl behavior on a recent Level Up call, and coaches, they had SO many questions! 

Here's what you'll learn:
✅ The most common types of drama affecting girl athletes right now
✅ The 4-step conflict conversation framework (with the exact words to teach your players)
✅ The 3 parent traps that accidentally make everything worse
✅ Why gathering the whole team to address bullying backfires
✅ The one proactive tool that prevents most drama before it starts 

This isn't about eliminating conflict. It's about teaching girls how to navigate it, and that skill follows them into every locker room, boardroom, and relationship they'll ever have. 

Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction
05:14 Most Common Types of Drama
07:51 Teaching Conflict Resolution
14:55 Early Warning Signs
16:41 How Parents Should Respond
18:01 The Power of Mindset
19:33 When to Address Bullying
24:49 Helping Excluded Girls
29:30 Top 3 Parenting Mistakes
32:39 Processing Your Own Past
35:46 Guidance for Coaches
38:06 Proactive Team Culture 

💬 Coaches - comment below: What's the hardest part of navigating team drama as a coach? 

📌 Resources & Tools
🔹You can find Sheri at: Teen Wise Website: https://www.teen-wise.com/
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P.S. Here's what the research shows:
⚡️ Girls drop out of sports at twice the rate of boys by age 14, and negative team social dynamics are a leading driver. (Women's Sports Foundation, 2016)
⚡️ 75% of girls who quit sports cite social reasons including peer conflict and feeling excluded from the team. (Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women, University of Minnesota)
⚡️ Relational aggression - exclusion, gossip, and social manipulation - occurs at significantly higher rates in adolescent girls than boys. (Crick & Grotpeter, Developmental Psychology, 1995) 

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