I have coached 4 teams in my life, a high school summer baseball team, 10-12 years old football team and 2 little league baseball teams. All of them had very successful seasons making playoffs in all and winning the championship in 2. This was all done while still in high school and here is where my love for coaching was born. How it all started is a long story. I was in a college program in high school where I would eventually get my associates degree before even getting my high school diploma. Of course I had to finish my workload but another requirement to get my degree was to have 16 hours of community service and I wanted to do something I would enjoy. I eat, breathe, dream and sleep in the world of sports. It is my life and I love …show more content…
The hardest part of being a coach at 17 years old and getting the parents and kids to buy into your philosophy. We were blessed to be able to use our high school’s baseball field and equipment because me and wade were on the baseball team. We had some good practices but at the end of the day our goal was to make sure these kids learn the fundamentals of baseball and have a blast doing it. The first game was a scrimmage that we ended up on the losing end and this is where the pressure of being a young coach came. Parents did not think we knew what we were doing, other coaches thought we were a free one, players started seeing us more as one of them instead of adults but me and Wade knew exactly what needed to be fixed. We won our first 5 games outscoring our opponents 63-7 before losing our first and only loss of the season 4-3. The skill was there, the coaching was there, the support from the parents were there but the biggest thing we focused on as a coaching staff was having fun and learning the basics of the game. We went on to win the championship that season and during our party after the season, I was approached by one of …show more content…
This team had 15 kids on the roster who have never played baseball in their life. The first few practices were rough but slowly and slowly we could see things falling into place. Finally the season started and it wasn’t very pretty. We would the first game but ended up losing the next 4 making our record 1-4 with only 4 games left and needing to win-out to make playoffs. The big problems we faced as a coaching staff were that the kids didn’t see us as coaches, they saw us as older kids and the same could be said about the parents. Practices started having only 5-7 kids at a time and we couldn’t get anything done. When I got home one day I typed up an email to all the parents. “Dear Parents, it starts with you!” The email went on and talked about their kids not being able to get better because you don’t bring them to practice and it shows on game day. If you do not bring them they are not going to start and it all starts with you as a parent. Luckily for us games kept getting rained out and it gave us more and more chances to practice, this time with all 15 players. Finally the first game came sent the email was sent and we won 17-1. After the game me and the coaching staff just had one quick thing to say to everyone. “It starts with you parents. You buy into what I am doing as a coach and we will get results like this every game.” We ended up winning
By knowing your sport, you are on the path to gaining your players and parents trust. As a youth coach I have vast experience: 1 season coaching basketball, 2 seasons coaching softball, and 10 years coaching soccer.
I want to be a high school varsity baseball coach and later move on to college or the major leagues. Not only do I just want to be a coach, but I want to be one of the best coaches that ever coached a game of baseball. In order to do that I’m going to have to have courage, dignity within myself, and also be honest with myself in order for the players to be comfortable playing on my team. Growing up as a kid I always had a strong love for baseball and as I grew older I received a brotherhood from baseball, a place of peace, and also a comfort stage that helped me perform in front of people. My main goal as a coach is to reach out to the kids and minister to them. I wish to show them an alternative route from selling drugs and robbing.
My sophomore year eager to begin baseball season, I've have so much detonation and disappointment from the prior year. The team and i had been preparing our butts off this off season. We were determined to break the curse of the baseball team. Out of the past teams no one never made it passed the fourth round and we were willing to do anything to change that. This was the year that we told our self's that were we going to make it the distance and nothing was going stand before us. We needed to be the team to recall as the ones who broke the condemnation and made it to state.
Four years ago during the summer before my first year of high school, I started volunteering as coach of a fourth grade cheer squad with three of my friends. We needed to teach twenty-eight girls a one-minute dance and a hello cheer before their first game. I went into that first practice very naive, believing the girls would listen and do as I say. That practice turned out to be a complete mess. The kids jumped all over me, would not pay attention for more than three motions, and repeatedly asked me random questions about the things I liked. That two hour practice was one of the most hectic and frustrating moments I have experienced, but, at the same time, it was new, exciting, and entertaining. The past years of coaching have allowed me to form strong relationships with these girls to the point where I see them as my little sisters. Being their coach involves more than just teaching them cheers and dances, sometimes I have to settle their differences, comfort them, and let them have fun. When the girls reached sixth grade, the team started to go through drama. One practice, two girls
... like you’re on the team but on the whole different level. Most importantly, it makes you feel like this is your purpose in life because it’s all you ever do – which can be a good or bad thing. Cons of being The Coach – nobody wants to watch the game with you. They think you’re annoying and take it way too seriously. Sadly, you’re 100 percent dedicated to sports and don’t really do anything else. Your peers get sick of hearing about sports because of you. Your obsession could kill your social life.
My team, Brookfield, encountered many hard times to win this spot in the finals, and we ended up losing in overtime. We were down two to zero in the first half. Everyone was working vigorously. At half time, my coach gave us an encouraging pep talk. It hyped us up and gave us hope. Then in the second half, my team scored two goals to tie the score up. This made the game go into overtime. During the overtime period, which was two five minute halves, Waukesha scored another two goals. At the end of regulation, my team was devastated by the loss. We were defeated four to two. On the other hand though, we were delighted we got this far and took second. Weather
On my senior project I recorded myself actually coaching a team and showing them how being a coach is easy and fun but it is also very difficult and tough. I coached my senior class as they faced the teachers at the teacher versus senior game. They had fun as well as I did but it is still difficult in that situation when you’re losing and there is only five minutes left on the clock and you as the coach have
These are the years were you begin to gain a sense of who you are and what kind of person you are going to be later in life. Thankfully for me, I had the game of baseball to show me the way. It showed me the right path, and it is a path that I continue to follow even now. 3 years ago, I was offered the opportunity to coach a high school baseball team, and I jumped all over the chance to be around the game again. Looking back, my first year coaching was actually a very important part and time in my life. Coaching has helped me build skills that include, training and development, change integration, and relationship management. Through this opportunity I have also gained a great deal of patience. Sometimes its hard to teach the game to players who have never played it before, but with patience I have been able to ultimately adapting interpersonal communication styles in order to engaging and motivating my players. In our first year as a baseball program we were able to win a playoff game, which was huge achieve and goal that we had set out at the beginning of the season. It’s has been a ton of fun for me to be around the game and teach it to a young core of player that also truly enjoy the game. My players have taught me a lot about myself, and the kind of person I am outside of just
Some of the local little league moms have set out to uncover the effects that negative coaching has on players. The leading cause of this investigation is simple, moms are tired of coaches that bully! Baseball used to be fun for kids, but today many coaches take the game a little too far and many kids do not want to play anymore. This article attempts to expose the interpersonal conflicts cause for kids dropping out of baseball for a local organization
As a general rule, parents are much more critical than they lead you to believe. Parents want to have a successful team where their child plays 100% of the game and is coached by the most knowledgeable coach in the league. Winning parents over can be difficult; hence, they can become a coaches biggest ally or worst nightmare. Just such a situation occurred when I drafted my first softball team. Sitting at the table with all the other coaches, I was encouraged to select a particular player acknowledged as an excellent pitcher with irascible parents. I needed a pitcher so I took her and after our first workout I found out just how bad-tempered they were. Fortunately, I was prepared and had a solution that would keep me in their good graces and allow me the room I needed to develop the team. I created a position on the field that they enjoyed, which kept them occupied, and that benefited me as a coach. My problematic parent’s became the team statisticians recording all data for games and practices. With a little ingenuity, I averted a potentially disastrous scenario; however, the best advice for preserving a positive group of parents is for them to see an enthusiastic leader. Even in the face of defeat your sportsmanship and attitude should be one that is admired by parents and players
These youth coaches are more influential on a child’s perception of a leader than Teachers, Principals of Schools and in some cases even more than their parents. A youth sports coach is influencing and teaching our children to become leaders, and in most cases they are teaching them to be a poor leader. Usually a youth sports coach will coach a child in two sports, covering nine months of the year, for six to eight years. A teacher is usually only in the child’s life for eight months. As President of Cherry Creek Youth Sports over the last five years, I have seen many leaders or coaches that are a positive influence on the kids. Sadly, that is not the majority. When a child is going to play a sport, they should play to have fun, to bond with their friends and improve (Silverman, 2010). Most youth coaches are coaching to...
Coaches train athletes to compete as a team or individually. Coaches working in high schools are responsible for coaching one or more of the school’s sports team. In larger schools one may coach one sport. These sports may be football, basketball, baseball, hockey, skiing, wrestling, soccer, and swimming depending on the school’s sports programs. High school coaches are part of the teaching staff. The head coach often has to locate assistant coaches. The head coach is responsible for supervising the team and other coaches. A team’s coach is responsible for getting the entire team ready to play and compete in games, tournaments, and championships, but first must teach them the fundamentals of the sport. A Coach does not only teach athletes skill, but also about good sportsmanship and teamwork. The all-time goal for a head coach is to win a state championship. He or she is responsible for putting together the team with the best athletes in the school. The head coach is also responsible for putting together schedules. Coaches sometime host tryouts at the beginning of the year depending on the sport and size of the school. Coaches are always under a ton of pressure. They have the whole community depending on them to win at that sport. Fans will always talk bad when the team is losing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects employment of coaches to increase much faster than the average for all occupations through 2022.
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.
“Class,” I announced, “today I will teach you a simpler method to find the greatest common factor and the least common multiple of a set of numbers.” In fifth grade, my teacher asked if anyone had any other methods to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. I volunteered, and soon the entire class, and teacher, was using my method to solve problems. Teaching my class as a fifth grader inspired me to teach others how important math and science is. These days, I enjoy helping my friends with their math homework, knowing that I am helping them understand the concept and improve their grades.
Being a parent is one of the most rewarding, yet difficult jobs in the world. We want our children to grow up to be well-rounded adults and to succeed in everything they do. As role models, we give direction to our children, motivate and inspire them to reach a goal, and encourage them to do the right thing. We are molding them to be the next generation of successful leaders. We want to teach them life lessons, be high performers, and most of all, we want them to be happy. Parents want school and sports to be positive experiences in their children’s life, however, what if a parent’s leadership creates a negative experience? What if parents push their children too hard? What if parents create such negativity regarding sports, that it results in emotional, physical, and even health related problems?