"We had a special team. We played together, played to win, and everyone knew their roles." Often in life one moment in time can change a person's life forever. That's what happened to me when I met Scott Kerstetter. Scott Kerstetter was officially my basketball coach from 8th through 12th grade, but in reality he was so much more. Coach Kerstetter taught me responsibility, solidarity, and perseverance through his coaching style, and the examples he set in the way he lived his life. One thing he has taught me through the years of coaching is responsibility. Coach Kerstetter is not just a high school basketball coach, but also an adult probation officer. Every day he deals with people who did not make the right decisions and believe they are not responsible for their own actions. He would tell us stories about the bad decisions they made to use them as examples of what not to do. Recently, I got into trouble with the law, and he was the first person I turned to talk too. He told me I need to take responsibility for what I did and change my life around before I end up like the people he has to watch. Talking to him made me change my aspect on responsibility. He made me think that I am not just responsible for my life but I am also responsible for how people see me. Another thing he has taught me is solidarity. When Coach first started coaching I was in eighth grade. At that age I didn't really know what a real team was. In middle school you just shoot the ball around and hopefully it will make it in. The game was more into how the individual was doing rather looking at the game and seeing how well the team worked together. When we got into high school and started out as freshman we had to learn real quick about what team... ... middle of paper ... ...ying but we would look at coach and he stood there smiling. He was so proud of us and was happy with what we did in the year. He taught us the confidence we needed to go as far as we did. We made it to the final game in districts but got second, we made it to the state game but lost in the second round, but we got first team defense two years in a row. Coach Kerstetter is the type of guy that will not take credit for anything. We would always tell him he was a great coach, but he would say we made him into the great coach that he is. He made us into the team we were and always will be. We knew we were good but he made us think we were the best. Coach Kerstetter was awarded with coach of the year and he well deserved it. He teaches players the game and most importantly teaches us about life. I will always use what he has taught me and will be eternally grateful.
Valvano gave a speech at the 1993 ESPY awards in which he depicted his ideas of leadership. He stated that leaders need a vision. He said that in one practice every year he would have the players practice on how they would act when they win. He did not say if they win, he said when they win. Valvano was giving his players a vision. They had something to believe in and play for. They were not playing just to look good and move on to the professional level. They were playing to win a national championship. Valvano envisioned an idea for his team and his team bought into that vision. He also taught that leaders need to connect with their followers. Valvano stated that he often would randomly call his players into his office just to chat with them. He wanted them to feel comfortable with him. They did not just talk about basketball, they could talk about anything. Valvano’s followers, in this case his players, were comfortable with him and they trusted him. They had no doubt when it came to their leader. Valvano fully understood the value of connection. He also taught that leaders learn from their followers. In Valvano’s final speech he talked about the four things that the 1983 national championship team taught him. They taught him hope, dreaming, persistence, and love. These four things came from the connection that Valvano had with his players. The 1983 national championship team
Finally, Coach K will continue to teach about life and leadership. He believes that your personal signature should be on everything you do; that you should be proud of your performance. People love winners and they love a good Cinderella story. Like Cinderella the results came from being committed, discipline, honest, and respectful. This is Coach K’s winning philosophy.
The 1980?s rolled around and the ?Cameron Crazies? (Duke Basketball fans) felt as if there were no hope for their Blue Devils basketball program, but that?s where they were wrong. Along came what is arguably the greatest coach to step foot on a basketball court, Coach Mike Krzyzewski. Coach K has had unprecedented success at Duke, winning three national championships, and making Duke the powerhouse basketball school that they are today.
The first day we got there we had started off so wrong by arguing. We weren’t doing well and we argued most of the time. Us as a team, we honestly made ourselves look bad in front of the coordinators and other teams that were watching us. The coaches had given us a real big pep talking about sticking together as a team to make us better. Although we didn’t think we needed it, it actually
In the book, "They Call Me Coach" by John Wooden, he talks about the importance of a teacher and coach as a role model for kids. He talks about his successes he had in coaching, the lessons he has learned, and the ones he has taught. In the book, you will get to walk through his life from when he was a little kid and first fell in love with basketball to when he retired from active coaching at UCLA in 1975. He also talks about his "Pyramid of Success" and the traits that every player should have.
By the time he finished his story he had all of us in tears. We had never felt so close to a coach and we were glad we was going to consider us as family. Practices were really fun after that every one worked hard but still had fun. The games went really well we only lost one game and won districts so now we get to go to
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Our coach was truly incredible in his flexibility and knowing where to put certain players. He even changed our offense to adjust with our play style. Our team was a 3 point shooting team and he ran some plays in order for us to get good looks. We ended up winning a tournament in the spring season. I constantly wonder every day whether if our AAU coach was my high school coach whether we would 've won the state playoffs. This goes along with the banking theory because my high school coach would tell us that there is one way to play the game, and if we didn 't play it the way he wanted us to, then we would be scolded and get benched. This turned me into a robot in a way where I would be doing things a set way otherwise I wouldn 't be able to even have a chance. While my coach taught me many lessons about life, I believed that he was a better person coach then a basketball coach. He did incorporate life lessons into the game and him and our team were very close and did a lot of things
... Kilmore coach them, and winning the game without a coach. He was on the inside, he saw the affect that the game was having on his friends and wanted to do something right to fix it. That took a lot of guts for him to do that. Although I think being involved in a sport is a positive thing, but in this situation it was not.
“A coach’s role is not to judge or disapprove of the way the coachee treats other people, or indeed how they live their life.” (Starr, J. (2011) p.33.)
A proper coaching philosophy contains principles which improve character development, teach step by step tactical and technical skills, form proper progressive physical training regimens, and carefully utilize team management to handle and control problems with administrative issues. A coach with a sound philosophy should mold a team with strong cohesion, and he should treat players not only as teammates, but as family and friends who are encouraged to develop communication and lifelong learning of skills through positive support and role modeling from the coach (Mergelsberg, 14-15). The philosophy should also contain written documents of implemented strategies and techniques, so that the coach will know what to improve upon season by season
He is a very young coach, always making jokes with us and goofing around with us too despite his serious attitude that he can sometimes give us. He teaches us lessons through the stories that he shares with us and he has shown us the importance of teamwork and leadership. He trained us really hard and teaching us discipline, building a family not a team. Even after season ended we could always rely on him to be there for us, and he kept his promise, he even gets online to play some fifa or some fortnite with us. Truth be told, he was more of a dad to the family of the soccer team, he would take care of us and always wished the best for us even if he didn’t say it
Later in the season, my coach came to talk to mabout helping my team change our work ethic. I was timid about this, but something needed to change. He
All my life I have met many people who have left an impact on my life whether it be in sports, work, extracurriculars, or even just meeting someone you don’t know.
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