Coach Develops Program to Uncover Hidden Behavioral Issues in Pro and Scholastic Student Athletes
Garret Kramer evaluates behavioral characteristics that lead to success on and off the field of play and predicts potential pitfalls.
inner-sports.com - December 03, 2008
(PRNewsChannel) / Parsippany, New Jersey / Athletes in trouble have become an epidemic: Star wide receiver Plaxico Burress is just the latest star athlete providing embarrassing headlines.
Is there a way to predict that these players would end up in trouble?
Garret Kramer, a New Jersey –based life and high school hockey coach and former collegiate athlete, says yes.
Kramer has perfected the practice of evaluating athletes’ behavioral characteristics on and off the field that lead to success or predict trouble. And his evaluative tools have worked with scholastic athletes and with pro players alike.
“The need for character development through athletics has never been more essential than it is today,” says Kramer, managing partner of Inner-Sports LLC, and head hockey coach at the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, N.J. “We have developed a process to evaluate athletes and their propensity for these types of deviant behaviors as well as a method to address these behaviors before they become a serious issue.
Pro teams could save millions of dollars by predicting and then preventing the deviant behavior. Players and parents of scholastic athletes could use the predictive information as a possible red flag for behavioral weaknesses that could prepare them better for the future.
Kramer is in the process of working with professional players in the New York Metropolitan area and has scores of high school and collegiate players, across a variety of sports, as clients. He evaluates them to expose the potential for bad or troubling behavior and then works with the athletes and sometimes their families to address it.
“The lack of focus on the character side of sports, particularly in youth and high school sports, leads to a whole host of potential incidents that are in fact all over the news each week,” says Kramer.
Kramer says it’s about addressing the problems and working toward a solution.
“Parents think they know their kids and most coaches believe that they possess the aptitude to understand their athletes,” says Kramer. “The truth is both have limited capabilities in this area.”
About Garret Kramer: Garret Kramer is a life coach for athletes and the managing partner in Inner-Sports LLC. He is also the head ice hockey coach at The Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. Inner-Sports LLC is the innovator in athletic character evaluation and life coaching. Its diagnostic provides predictive information on the behavioral characteristics of athletes and its coaching program targets the red flags discovered leading to greater success on and off the field and in the future.
Contact:
Garret M. Kramer
Inner-Sports, LLC
Office: 973-401-9097
Mobile: 201-978-0186
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Web site: www.Inner-Sports.com
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