Ethical Coaching Today

Parenting today is different than parenting in the past, therefore kids of today are different from kids of the past. With parents and kids being different, it changes the coaching style of coaches today. Women’s basketball coaches across the country have had recent discussion about the difference in coaching styles from the days of Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt, C. Vivian Stringer (in her early years), and Andy Landers to today’s coaching styles. It’s believed that some of these coaches, if not all of the coaches listed above, would be fired in today’s society for the way they coached. These differences have brought about the question “what is ethical coaching?” Referring back to Hanson & Savage’s article, they discuss what ethical coaching entails. According to Hanson & Savage (2015): …show more content…
This requires a tremendous amount of compassion and understanding.”
While some players can handle coaches tearing them down and then have the ability to use it as inspiration and motivation, a lot of players today can’t do that. They need coaches to act more as cheerleaders and build them up after mistakes, rather than tear them down; and in some cases, coaches have to use a combination of the two styles. Regardless of the style of coaching used, it’s important not to be too lenient with kids. Because kids are extremely impressionable, coaches still want to be stern with them, in order to instill proper discipline, character, and