Coach Leadership Influence

While athletes are the ones who are doing the active duty the role of a coach is to lend advice to the trained athlete to success. Most young players need to have some sort of influence and motivation to become the best at what sport they play. Coaches draw out the athlete’s potential with understanding their players and providing them with leadership. This would develop superb chemistry with not only a coach but with a team and is vital in how much better can athletes become to reach their full potential. In an article “Leadership Preferences of Adolescent Players in Sport: Influence of Coach Gender” by Cruz and Kim explore how coach’s female or male in the sport badminton interact with players and determine if behavior plays a role in the sports leadership of these adolescent athletes. For their experiment, a badminton tournament was held in the Philippines for young athletes that age from 9-18. Badminton is considered a single player sport but for this tournament doubles matches were present and athletes …show more content…
This accounts for the chemistry between coaches and players by improving players. Coaches need to demonstrate good training, knowledge of sport, and positive feedback to achieve the best out of player can perform. With the notion of being bossed around and asserting authority to these young players are not going to break an athletes’ mood. Schools need to note that their coaches for their sports should be aware of athletes’ preferences of how a coach behaves. In the future, these young athletes might have the sport they play as their career and the coaches are the ones who always motivate them. This will also build proper relationship with a coach and athlete. Lastly, this study encourages that players be matched with the right gender coach to provide a positive experience playing a sport they