help your athletes know who they are (Martens, 2012). Knowing and understanding your personal values is an important consideration when beginning the process of developing a coaching philosophy (Hammermeister, 2010). Understanding values and beliefs comes from the self-awareness discovery and many of times this comes from experiencing positives and negatives as a coach. The values and beliefs learned through experience shape a coach and their philosophy, which sets the path for athletes understand who the coach is and why a coach makes their decisions. The experiences of coaching allows a coach to explore ethical choices, gamesmanship, diversity issues, and considers an athlete-centered approach. All these are important to examine when understanding
