Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW

Dad, S&C Coach, Lacrosse Coach, Former PE Teacher,
Owner @cosmolacrosse @lrn2move
Former NCAA/NAIA Lacrosse Coach
Lafayette-Roanoke-Chicago-MoTownCO #LG🍊

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@ChrisRosie22 Hold up. Grandson? Me...

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@axios Standby, in 3, 2, 1.....@JimmysSeafood

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@MattDevittWX This is absolutely terrible for kids. Already natural light deficient. No light for many young drivers heading to school with roads more often slick/icy in colder climates too.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@NHL Quality time ✅️
Mobility work ✅️
Stability work ✅️
Power work ✅️
Setting her up for a strong lifetime ✅️

Super dad ✅️

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

This is the definitive rendition of our National Anthem. Whitney Houston didn’t just sing it—she made us feel it. Patriotism. Pride. Purpose.

A moment that reminded us why we love this country.

Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@BR_OpenIce ? = !

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@Canes What a dream job.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Jim Valvano taught us to enjoy life and to cherish every moment.

As we continue this journey, we’re reminded that the Stanley Cup Final is about more than hockey. It’s about people, purpose, sacrifice, and appreciating the moments that bring us together.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@james_hoganv Time and the tranfer portal this summer will be telling.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@TerenceFoy @StagsMensLax @Inside_Lacrosse Me, thinking about Odierna going to the Stags and Lars returning home to Cuse

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@BarstoolGruden You're not allowed to return to coaching, unless of course its running the box and going absolute Chucky on some kid who screws up subbing.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

The swamp in Chicago is maybe thicker than DC. Mayor, Park District - which owns Soldier Field, Alderman, etc... Makes nearly everything impossible to get done. Ran a special event years ago at old Soldier Field and needed to run one (1!) extra extension cord... Would cost me hundreds extra for the "engineer" to take care of it.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@TheLtColUSMC Never doubt a lady in All-Stars.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

✏️ 🧠 💪

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@LacrosseNetwork @JoeSpallina Stat, suit and shades. 😎

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@AdamLeviLAX One handed, sliding, d-pole GB. IYKYK, this is beyond incredible at game speed. Amazing.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@BillKristol Imagine being filled with this type of hate/envy/whatever it is you have. Pray for you.

[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@ORIGINBJJ @grok

Still have to train the AI from time to time.
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[Drew Stevenson, MS, CSCS, USAW @teachcoachtrain]

@spittinchiclets Cannot love this guy enough. Come back to Chicago