The person underneath the player.
I’m Jeremy Green, an Athlete Development Coach. More than twenty years working with athletes — coaching, training, mentoring, parenting, listening and teaching.
They don't only need more information.
Today I work with Self Aware Athlete, coaching developing athletes navigating the mental and everyday demands that come with ambitious goals.
They need help learning to apply what they already know, consistently. How to manage themselves, use their time, build standards, prepare, deal with distraction, and honestly evaluate themselves without destroying themselves when they fall short.
And eventually, how to become their own best coach.
I left a lot on the table.
I had lots of talent, tons of potential and big goals — but zero understanding of how to connect the dots. I didn’t know how to turn a dream into a plan, or a plan into daily behaviour. It took me years to come to peace with that.
I can’t guarantee anybody the NHL, the NBA, a scholarship or a professional career. Nobody honestly can. But I can teach athletes tools and ways of thinking that give them a better opportunity to maximize what they already have.
Give everything you can to the journey. Leave nothing in the tank. No regrets.
Personal long before it was professional.
For years I’ve had a front-row seat to the development of my own son, Mazen Green, including his path to being drafted 45th overall in the WHL.
I would never claim that I created Mazen as an athlete. He’s had coaches, trainers, teammates, mentors, and his own talent and work ethic.
What I’ve had is the chance to help him build and experiment with many of the habits I now teach — and to live the other side of it with him. Frustration. Setbacks. Periods where results didn’t match the work.
Development isn’t one breakthrough. It’s thousands of ordinary decisions compounded over years.
Coaching the space between practices.
Athletes already have coaches teaching their sport. Strength coaches develop their bodies. Teams provide practices and competition.
But there is another enormous part of development: the other hours of the week. How the athlete uses them. How they prepare. What they pay attention to. How they speak to themselves. Whether their daily behaviour actually matches their ambitions.
That’s the space I work in.
- Not replacing your skills coach
- Not replacing your strength coach
- Not replacing your team
- Helping you get more from all of them
The short version.
- Most athletes train their sport. Very few train themselves.
- Your goals have a price.
- Confidence is built through preparation.
- Attention is one of an athlete’s most valuable assets.
- You can’t improve what you aren’t willing to see.
- You don’t become a professional on draft day.
- Belief without accountability is empty encouragement.
- Accountability without belief becomes criticism.
- Leave nothing in the tank. No regrets.
I root for every kid.
Reach out and let's talk about where your athlete is, and where they're trying to go.