Impact of Quality Coaching on Youth Athletes

Youth Coaches are essential to the world of sports. A coaches job is to lead a group of individuals to perform well and improve athletes both physically and mentally. A good coach promotes positive experiences for athletes, helps athletes foster love for the sport, mentor player, cultivate team chemistry, and make sure individual athletes represent the team in a good manner off the court. On the contrary, a bad coach makes athletes feel stressed, makes players dislike the game, increases chances of injury, and negatively impacts a player’s overall experience. To ensure participants receive a positive experience when participating in team sports, all coaches should receive complete training to ensure coaches can not only coach but understand the

Because your coach was untrained you don't enjoy practice, the team performed at a low level, and the sport you used to enjoy Isn't fun anymore. What would you? Would you quit? "In 2007, according to SFIA, 34.7% of children ages 6-12 were active three times a week in any sports activity, organized or unstructured; by 2014, that number had dropped to 26.9% (among 13-17-year-olds, it fell from 44.7% to 39.8%)." Additionally, the Aspen Project Play website mentions that 81.5% of parents in America have major concerns over their child's coaching. As a youth athlete, I also experienced concerns with some of my coaches. I spent twelve years of my life in Texas, most of which I played in numerous sports to include; track, basketball, football, and baseball. I participated in many sports because the culture in Texas was sports-centric. Children started participating in sports at a young age and were that winning is everything. Some youth athletes would talk about how they were going to become the next basketball star like LeBron James. Athletes like them and the success they achieved was the big appeal to kids like us. So, we would ask our parents to play sports just to be like the superstar athletes that we saw on the