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EPISODE · Apr 29, 2026 · 33 MIN

Derek Bingham: The Hard Part of Coaching Other People’s Kids While Raising Your Own

from Surviving Youth Sports · host Surviving Youth Sports

Derek Bingham joins Surviving Youth Sports for a personal conversation about what it really looks like to coach, parent, and stay present in the middle of a busy sports life. As the longtime head baseball coach at Lake Washington High School, Derek has spent more than two decades helping other people’s kids grow through sports.But this episode goes deeper than wins, titles, or coaching experience...Rhett and Derek talk honestly about the sacrifices coaches make, the pressure placed on coaches’ kids, the challenge of watching your own child from the stands, and why family moments can’t always be recreated later.For parents, coaches, and athletes, this conversation is a reminder that youth sports are filled with tension: commitment and exhaustion, pride and pressure, development and expectations, winning and perspective.

Derek Bingham joins Surviving Youth Sports for a personal conversation about what it really looks like to coach, parent, and stay present in the middle of a busy sports life. As the longtime head baseball coach at Lake Washington High School, Derek has spent more than two decades helping other people’s kids grow through sports.But this episode goes deeper than wins, titles, or coaching experience...Rhett and Derek talk honestly about the sacrifices coaches make, the pressure placed on coaches’ kids, the challenge of watching your own child from the stands, and why family moments can’t always be recreated later.For parents, coaches, and athletes, this conversation is a reminder that youth sports are filled with tension: commitment and exhaustion, pride and pressure, development and expectations, winning and perspective.

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