Coaching Track Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a successful track coach and coach your protégés to a successful season? Through job shadowing, personal experience, and research, I have found out just how much hard work goes into coaching. Of the more than twenty million Americans who are running today, most who start do so for the wrong reasons, with the wrong attitude, and tend to lose interest after a few weeks or months. Many quit. This is usually because they become concerned with superficial goals such as time and distance and never discover the more profound mental benefits that running offers. (Lilliefors 15) To be a successful coach, the first thing a coach has to do is become well acquainted with the athlete. The coach should get to know the athlete’s life outside of track. If the coach does not know the person as an individual then he would not be able to coach them. According to a collegiate track athlete, “a track coach should not only improve your running, but he should improve your way of life” (Jones). I believe that statement is true. A coach needs to have that close personal connection with their athletes. Like a teacher would have a connection to a student. With out that teacher, student connection the athlete will not enjoy learning nor will the coach be able to teach the athlete. In fact, a coach is a teacher, and the athlete is a student. That should be true for all coaches, not just a track coach. The second thing a coach has to do is assess the athlete. Then they need to find out what type of runner the athlete is. That way they can design a workout program that will prove to be the most effective with that person. Every athlete i... ... middle of paper ... ...dcaster for track. If you are a good coach, your former players will want to come back to visit and stay in touch. They will feel very comfortable around your current players. Honesty is the centerpiece of a coach/player relationship. Bibliography: Clark, Josh. Road Rhythms. Online Internet. Dec. 2000 Available:*http://kicksports.com/good/cycle.shtml* Connelly, Pat. Coaching Evelyn. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Jones, Cedric. Personal Interview, Nov. 2000 Lilliefors, Jim. Total Running/ All About the Mental and Spiritual Side of Running. New York: William Morrow and Company, INC, 1997 Robinson, Charles, Personal Interview. June 1999. Spurrier, Steve. Getting Player to Play the Best They Can. .Online Internet. Nov. 2000. Available 1999 *http://www.y-coach.com/CD/coaching.htm* Washington, James, Personal Interview, Nov. 2000
They race against themselves: to conquer their wills, to transcend their weaknesses, to beat back their nightmares" (603). This quotation shows that running is not always competition, but it helps runners overcome their
Coaching is an integral part of helping achieve one’s maximum abilities. Dr. Gawande (2013) explains that, “Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy” (p. 3). It is difficult to say what is the exact function of a coach, however, they help bring forth another point of view different from our own and they also help bring about the right mindset in order to subdue a weakness.
This is Jad Mulgrew’s 5th year of working in the Sedalia School District. He has also been coaching mid-distance and long sprints in Track and Field for 5 years as well. Originally, Coach Mulgrew is from Palm Springs, California. Because he loved the sport, Coach Mulgrew wanted to coach Track from when he was at college. He believed it was a good way to share the love of his sport.
...ified by hundreds of principals, superintendents, and school board members. There are many concerns about the safety, training, organization, philosophy, communications, and general management in coaching. According to the California High School Coaching Education and Training Program as stated in the Coaching Education Legislature Assembly Bill No. 2741, “It is a conservative estimate that at least 25,000 coaches annually need training and an orientation just to meet current coaching regulations contained in Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, including basic safety and CPR requirements.” That is why course techniques of coaching specific sports are necessary for a persons not trained and certified as a physical education teachers because they need to understand the basic philosophy and principles of athletics in education, know the health related aspects of athletics, and the techniques used to coach a specific sport. With every coach there are the little pieces of the game…strategy of offense and defense, practice/game planning, or scouting, but to get the whole picture they need to know the basic philosophy and principles, health aspects, and the obvious techniques.
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will”. Being a football coach requires someone who can be a great communicator. This person needs to understand communication on both sides an individual can not just demand that it's a one way street where you talk and athletes listen. The career of coaching requires history of the game knowledge of the game, extensive education, and positive and negatives aspects of the game.
There are many challenges being a coach or any type of leader. If you are in either of these positions a big challenge would be how to make your organization better than others. Coaches need to come up with a game plan to outperform other teams. This is extremely hard when there are tons of other coaches also trying to do the same thing. The second challenge is implementing the plan you do create. A coach needs to not only be an expert at how to be better than other teams, but also be a proficient teacher. An amazing master plan means nothing if you can’t get your players to execute the plan. The most challenging thing about being a coach is keeping your players motivated. If your players don’t care and just stop trying then it doesn’t matter how good your plan
Whitmore, J. (2009) Coaching for Performance: Growing Human Potential and Purpose. (4th Edition) London: Nicholas Brealey.
Coaching is one vital service to the community because you can help individuals transform negative thoughts to positive actions to succeed. More so, coaches help companies and individuals realize their potentials and see opportunities for advancement and success. However, it is not that easy to succeed in this business venture because there is tough competition in the market and there are several fields of specialization to consider.
Coaching adolescents in a talent development environment, I have selected this group as I have always wanted to coach in a talent development environment as I feel coaching and finding the next great athlete in any given sport and turning their gift into recognised talent would give me a greater sense of achievement over any winners medal you could possibly get. The skills and qualities I will concentrate on within this group are; relative age effect as this is a serious flaw in the talent development system to date, I will also look at how within a talent development scheme it is not always about winning as this is not the most effective way of producing senior success. Another quality of coaching in a talent development I will look at is
As the expectations of professional sports coaches get higher, the lack of true athleticism in young athletes means there is a problem in recruiting for these sports.. Throughout America, there are thousands of coaches that do private lessons with athletes. Despite the plethora of coaches, there is a severe lack of them that teach actual athleticism. This gap in the market provides an excellent opportunity to cause a disruption in the market, allowing a new niche to be taken advantage of. Since this market is largely untapped, most players go through their career, unaware of their lack of athleticism, keeping them from their full potential.
Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching.
Up until the end of eighth grade, I hated running. Just the thought of it was beyond me. It wasn’t until my cousin, Zoe, told me to go out for the cross country team that I considered giving it another shot. Zoe had told me that there were a great group of people on the team and that I would have a lot of fun. Fun? Well, turns out she wasn’t wrong. The practices were after school, so we had a chance to free our minds in between classes and homework. Because of this break, I was able to do a better job concentrating on my homework, and, most importantly, I felt healthy and good about myself.
In my narrative paper, I wrote in detail about my last track season of my high school career. In this essay I discussed the process of practicing and working towards achieving my goals at the end of the season. I talked about my relationship with my coach and how important it was to me, as well as my determination and perseverance during the track season. I also discussed how I finally achieved my goal of breaking twelve minutes in the 3200 meter run and how much it meant to me as a runner. Writing this essay about my personal experience with running sparked my interest in learning all of the health benefits that come with running on a regular basis. In conducting my research, I found that running is not only a great way to maintain a healthy weight, but it is also great for your heart, mind and mood, bones and joints, and other body systems.
Jensen, C.R. & Overman, S.J. (2003). Administration and Management of Physical Education and Athletic Programs. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
In today’s society being a coach can be extremely complicated especially compared to earlier years. Coaching requires not only many technical and personal skills but also has to include positive psychology that will affect all athletes regardless of gender, age, and race. After reading various articles this leads me to the question, what is a coach? How do coaches differ from one another? In addition are we forgetting the importance of not only coaching but the sports psychology aspect of coaching overall? Regardless of what you may have read or heard I believe not only do all coaches have their own coaching style but every coaching technique and style is different. Coaching styles and positive psychology are two techniques that can provide