Deliberate Dynamics Jr.: How to Win the Game!: A Guide to Becoming the Best Athlete You Can Be

By Cedric S. Cunningham

Written for young and aspiring athletes, Deliberate Dynamics Jr.: How to Win the Game! presents a quick, ten-step guide to being a great athlete and person. Written by Cedric Cunningham, a fourteen-year-old athlete, this self-improvement book passes on tips to help teens excel at sports and life.

He offers this as a companion book to Deliberate Dynamics: Leading a Game-Changing Life, written by his mother, LaJeanna L. Cunningham. Based on his personal experiences as a student-athlete for the last eight years, Cunningham shares the steps to success:

Know the rules
Know the position
Understand the I is in win (not team)
Practice. Practice. Practice.
Respect your opponent
Watch what you say
Realize mistakes happen
Win gracefully
Find a mentor
Have fun

Deliberate Dynamics Jr.: How to Win the Game! is geared toward kids who are just beginning to play a sport or who want to get better at being a well-rounded athlete. It shows how to handle the ups and downs of being an athleteon and off the court.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491770016

Cedric S. Cunningham

Cedric Cunningham is a fourteen-year-old athlete. Basketball is his first love and favorite sport, but he’s also played football and soccer and plans to run track. In 2013, Cunningham hosted a blog talk radio show called Sports 4 Kids where he spoke about current sports events from the middle-school perspective.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-7002-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-7001-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015909007

iUniverse rev. date: 7/9/2015

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Tip #1: Know the game

Tip #2: Know your position!

Tip #3: Understand the I is in win (not team)

Tip #4: Practice. Practice. Practice!

Tip #5: Respect your opponent!

Tip #6: Watch what you say

Tip #7: Mistakes happen

Tip #8: Win gracefully!

Tip #9: Find a mentor

Tip #10: Have fun!

Bonus Tip: Get your mind right

Resources

Quick Review Guide

References

Dedication

I dedicate this, my first published book, to all the coaches who helped me become a better athlete.

FOREWORD

Coach Adrian Suffren

Owner and Director, Skills Academy Basketball

Famed orator and slave abolitionist Frederick Douglass once said, It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. When I first heard this year ago, I pondered these words and it resonated within me year after year. I vividly remember feeling that subtle conviction as I left my corporate banking job at the end of each day. I would shorten my route home by cutting through an undesirable section of town. My heart grew weary as I saw men of all ages congregating near a small convenience store or wondering up and down the dull, impoverished streets. It was evident that these men were in search of something, but without direction. As years past, the subtle conviction deepened as some of the faces in the improvised community either grew older or disappeared. Often times during my commute home I wondered of their