Personal Narrative: My Interview With A Cross Country Coach

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Cross Country Coach I have always loved sports and the competitiveness that comes along with them. In so doing, I have decided to eventually become either a high school or college coach at some point in my life. Subsequently, I decided to interview the Vilonia High School Cross Country Coach, Coach Sisson. As I walked into her office, I instantly noticed all of the trophies and team photos from all of the past years of coaching. She is also the school nurse so her office has first aid equipment intermingled into the trophies and team pictures. While I set up my notes and questions for the interview on one of the desks in her office, she was finishing up a diagnosis of one of the high school students who felt sick. After her patient left, I quickly started the interview in order to waste no time. She began with how she got involved in coaching. The Vilonia School District expressed their interest to her as being the next cross country coach several years ago. She was widely known for her passion for running and she gratefully accepted the position and has been a coach for numerous years now. The interview quickly moved on to the requirements for being a High School …show more content…

They have the ability to discover random and cool things about the human body that the average human would not normally know. She explained that the hours a coach can put in, are strictly optional. A coach who is devoted to the kids and the team will put in hundreds of extra hours in, but, a coach who is only there temporarily or who is not as devoted will put in not near as many as devoted coaches. When I asked her specifically how many she put in this summer she quickly remarked, “A bunch! How do you figure that?” She tried going into the numbers and came up with about 700 plus hours of scouting, planning workouts, meal plans, or just fun activities for the

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