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
High school coaches been sworn at called names and physically threatened by parents before,during, and after the games. Playing time is often at the root of the problem though sometimes a parent is outraged that their son or daughter isn’t being played at what the parent thinks is their child’s best position (Nolan). In addition, equal playing time is important because it developed every player skills.(Nicole). Take, for instance, the case of a young player who has never played for a club before. He’s 11 and charges around the place without being able to control the ball or kick. Many of his teammates didn’t think he should play for their team but the coach has been working with him and one day he wanted to let him play and believe it or not he did very well for his first game that he even made a goal for the team (David). The best thing to do whenever you’re in a sport is that the coaches
In a growing trend that reaches to all corners of the athletic world, coaches are being forced to cope with the added stress of disgruntled parents. More and more they are required to defend personal coaching styles and philosophies, uphold team decisions and go head to head with angry, and sometimes violent parents. The pressure has gotten to the point where coaches all over the country are quitting or being forced out of their jobs by groups of parents. High school athletics should be about learning and having fun, and when parents cross the line between cheerleader and ringleader everyone suffers.
As a kid, I was born and raised to love the great game of baseball. Many young kids have had dreams to become professional athletes, and achieve prestigious awards/ titles. Like many kids I’ve always dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player. As a younger kid with my head in the clouds, I never really knew what it was like to put my actual blood, sweat, and tears into something I loved, until my worst season I had ever played. This whole story starts in the beginning of my ninth grade baseball season. It started out different from every other year because, of course I was a freshman. This was the first year I had ever practiced with the varsity squad, it was much more difficult, but I still figured I was going to do great. After weeks
As I have asserted, coaching is far more than winning or losing. A coach is an essential cog in shaping qualities such as sportsmanship, competitiveness, self discipline, and work ethic. A quality coach can build a player up while a bad coach can tear them down. My goal as a coach was to always leave the player striving to be the best they could be. A good coach
As a coach you do fail sometimes and that's what is difficult but Michael Jordan once said, “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeeded.” I believe that this goes for coaching as well because you are going to fail over and over again and you will soon see that those failures are actually your accomplishments. No one said life was easy but coaching can be easy and it’s a way to connect with players and others and bring out the best in people and show that people can work together and accomplish many things no matter how difficult or hard it is and it can be fun and thrilling at the same
From most of the questions I asked, they were a few of the basic things I would need in order to be a great coach. One of the main questions was taking criticism from fans. The fans are always just fans. Which means they know nothing about the amount of work your team puts in or know anything about what the team may be going through so just let them be. The most hurdle one will have to overcome is to telling a player he/she is not good enough for the
In 2014 I was determined to make the high school soccer team. Every day at 8 am at the beginning of a dreadfully hot August morning, I would get to the turf fields for 4 hours and participate in “hell week”. After a long week, I made the JV team. I was never put into the game and felt like my hard work was put to no use. My sophomore year rolled around and I tried extra hard to impress the coaches. Anything and everything was a competition to make it to the top. By the end of the week, we all gathered around the paper that had names of the players who made it. I didn’t make the team. After tears and telling myself to move on, I went to the field hockey tryouts. I knew nothing about the sport and was terrified that soccer wasn’t my go-to
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...
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.
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will”. Being a football coach requires someone who can be a great communicator. This person needs to understand communication on both sides an individual can not just demand that it's a one way street where you talk and athletes listen. The career of coaching requires history of the game knowledge of the game, extensive education, and positive and negatives aspects of the game.
My love for baseball will always be something that I carry with me for the rest of my life and I think that being happy with my career choice is more important than an annual salary or lengthy requirements that go along with becoming a coach. I hope that one day I can coach and teach children at the high school level and be a person that they look up to with respect. I want to set examples of leadership and show younger people and children how to have positive and courageous qualities just as I will hope to have as I work towards my dreams of being a coach. Baseball may just be one diamond, four plates, nine players, a sweaty uniform, cleats, a bat, and a ball to you, but to me it’s a lifestyle and career choice that I want to live and work towards for the rest of my years to
Over the past few years I have volunteered as an usher at my church, as a food vender at the PGA Honda Classic, helping my best friends mom in her classroom, working a food stand at a local softball tournament, as an assistant coach to a 10U travel softball team, and as a camp counselor at a softball camp. Personally, I think that being an assistant coach for a 10U travel softball team helped shape me a lot. Helping coach the younger travel team felt great to give back to the community, and it made me think of where my own softball journey began. I absolutely loved coaching the younger girls because I am now much more experienced in the game and can help them a lot more and get them stronger so that they can excel more in the game. I want them to love the sport just as much as I did when I was younger so that their love for the game will grow even more just as mine did. Coaching these girls was one of the best things I could’ve ever done. Talking to the girls about when I started softball, what my favorite part of the game is, going to college to play the game I love, how much they love the game now, and how they’ll all be in my shoes in a matter of years had me grinning from ear to ear. I loved every minute of it, I loved hitting to the girls, working on their fielding, pushing them to be their best, making sure they put 110% effort into everything they did, and
Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching.
When I turned six years old I was old enough to play on a Little League team, and my father volunteered to be the coach. He worked long hours but always found enough time to dedicate to the team. At first our team was not very good, but that would soon change. My father practiced us hard every week and by the end of the season we made the playoffs. Even though we did not win the Championship that year, our team had reason to be proud. We won a few games, and we had a lot of fun, thanks to my dad. I played baseball for a total of ten years, and he was my coach for at least half of them.
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?