Personal Narrative: A Career In The Field Of Coaching

To me, being a coach is providing my kids with a role model and steady figure in their lives to count on no matter what. I make sure I am there for the girls that I committed to, and give them an outlet for their day to day stresses. I always take time to ask them how they are doing- no matter what. A few of the girls will ask for help with their homework since no one at home can. I stress the importance to try their hardest in every aspect of their lives.

To be a coach you need a certain set of skills. For example a coach needs to have good people skills. A coach has to talk to his team and other people from around the area who want to meet him and talk to him. Another Thing a Coach needs to be arrogant to an extent he needs to be very confident in his ability’s to lead his team to a winning season and he needs to be confident in players that they can execute what he has taught them to do so they can get a win every week. (acient)

Coaches are not just coaching us how to play a game, they are giving us real life lessons, developing us for success in the real world. I am highly grateful

I am Nick Drew, senior football player at Campbell University looking to one day become a Division 1 Football Head Coach. What I want in life is for my family and I to be happy and successful. I think those are two of the biggest, yet simplest things about life. If I’m happy and successful then I believe that everything else will fall into place. Along with my family being happy and successful I also want my players that I coach to be happy and successful. I believe those are two of the main things that I’d build my coaching philosophy around, making sure the players are happy and successful within the sport as well as in life. “Our philosophies determine the way we view objects and experiences in our lives as well as the way we view people

If I have to choose a favorite sport it would have to be football. Football is physical hard-hitting contact sport that is full of excitement rooting for my home team the New York Jets. Back in 1997 is where I developed a full interest; watching and playing football at a young age. I have played fullback and linebacker both positions took a lot of hard work, conditioning, and practice to execute my performance on the field.

Coaching has been a big part of our history, throughout history there have been some great coaches/leader and there also have been some very bad/ coaches. An example of a great leader in history is Franklin D Roosevelt. An example of a bad leader in history is Adolf Hitler because of what he did. In history, what does it take to be a good coach and what does it take to be a bad coach.

Coaching is a useful way of developing people skills and abilities, and of coarse boosting performance. It can also help deal with

I think one of the things I learned/realized the most the crazy hours that are put in by upper-level coaches. It would not be crazy for a football coach to put in over 100 hours in a week during the prime of football season. That is insane! However, if it’s what you love then you expect that.

A coach should work hard to improve their players’ athletic abilities but be willing to take the time to stress the importance of being a good person. A coach has such a unique opportunity to reach kids through sports and should use their platform to prepare and develop kids for lives outside of sports. Coaches can do this by expecting certain ethical behaviors and by relating the sport to life. There are many metaphors that relate sports to life and they should be used to help athletes understand how they can use the valuable lessons from the sport they play to be better people. My baseball coach would often compare how baseball relates to life.

(2007) states that this is true with many great coaches today, who have admitted that they would not have been as successful if they did not have a good coach to help mentor and develop them. Coaching is not an easy term to define. American College of Sports Medicine maintains the following

You decided to become a coach because you are driven to serve. You want to help people achieve their goals and dreams. You want to live a life of passion and purpose. You want the freedom of being paid to do what you love to do.

There are two to four million coaches throughout the United States. Less than 20% of these coaches have received any type of training (Anderson, 2012). Most youth sports coaches around America have parents as the coach of the team. This can be a problem due to the favoring of playing time and a lack of training as well. Athletes need to be trained and coached by individuals who are going to make them better both on and off the court.

SOAR Essay “ A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has to see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you always known you could be.” Tom Landry, one of the greatest football coaches of all time, said this is what it takes to be a coach. A research done on Australian coaches shows that “Coaching has the potential to play a significant role in shaping an individual and community’s identity, culture, and knowledge.” Coaches play a very effective role not only on kids but on adults as well. You can go to coaching for anything you need help with in life.

A coach is an educator and administrator who must apply their teaching skills, wisdom and leadership skills. The coach has a big role to play here in preparing the athletes physically, mentally and socially through team talks, physical exercise sessions and different ways of boosting the confidence and motivation of players. The coach is not just a sports trainer but also a manager and teacher must assist the upcoming young athletes to discover their talents and improve on their own personal skills. Many coaches on every level may have more then one job for example a lot of them are teachers or professors as well.

Besides a coach an athletic trainer is the right hand man to an athlete. As an athletic trainer there are many tasks that keep us going. One is the athletes themselves and all of the requests they come in and demand. From recovering from an injury to preventing a life long injury from reoccurring trainers are always on the move. Prioritizing, viewing a wide variety of injuries, and differing work fields are just a few of the benefits that you get when you are a trainer.