Summary Of The Movie Mcfarland, U. A.

McFarland, U.S.A. Sports serve as a way to create community and togetherness amongst players and coaches on various sports teams. Providing pride for other team members and a willingness for to players perform to the best of their abilities. People who complete on teams together form relationships between other team members and coaches all with the same goal of winning and competing. Long hours practicing and encouraging team members to push themselves to become better players and form lifelong friendships that continue outside the sport. The movie McFarland, U.S.A. demonstrates sports communications through two main themes: The relationship of player and coach, and how teams play a vital role for sports to succeed. McFarland, U.S.A. illustrates how proper coaching leads to improvement of players and builds stronger bonds to strengthen both coaches and players abilities and relationships. When

The authors found sports and coaching to be related to development in youths in the following areas: personal and social skills, cognitive skills, goal setting, and initiative (Cronin & Allen 2015). Focusing on the area presented by Cronin & Allen, McFarland, U.S.A. provides examples of these area of development within the team members and within Jim himself. Jim White provided the link to help the cross-country team grow closer and form a community in the team and outside the team. When Thomas, a boy on the cross-country team, expressed to Jim that he will never be better than a farm hand who pick fruits and vegetables and will never be able to leave McFarland. Jim provides a goal for Thomas that if he keeps running he will be able to receive a college scholarship and become a better athlete and person. The cross-country team’s members are given an outlet to become better people and students through cross-country with the help of Jim