Terri Rodriguez-Hong

At Alohathletes, we talk a lot about the skills you cannot always see on a stat sheet. One of the biggest is body language. I was recently watching a fall baseball game and noticed something that happens in almost every sport. An athlete made a mistake. Then another athlete made one. And another. That part was normal. What stood out was what happened immediately afterward. Their bodies told the entire story. Shoulders dropped. Heads went down. Some players looked frustrated before the next...

Becoming a better version of yourself does not happen all at once. It happens slowly. Through experience. Through mistakes. Through hard seasons. Through the moments when things do not go the way you hoped they would. As we grow, we keep learning. And as we learn, we begin to understand ourselves a little better. We learn what matters to us. We learn what we are willing to accept and what we are no longer willing to carry. We learn which habits help us move forward and which ones keep us...

Dear Coach, I came to practice early. Not because anyone asked me to. Because I wanted to get better. While others were talking, I was getting my work in. When practice ended, I helped clean the field. After most people had left, I stayed behind to finish putting things away. No one handed me a trophy. No one announced my name. No one applauded. And that’s okay. Because I wasn’t doing those things to be noticed. I was doing them because that’s the standard I’ve set for myself. One lesson...