Having played softball for nine years, I have been through five coaches. I know what makes a good coach, and I know what doesn’t make a good coach. Your coach can be one of the most influential people in your life. You spend everyday after school and most weekends with your coach. Over the course of the season you form some sort of relationship with your coach. As a coach, it is their job to encourage you, support you, help you improve your skills, and push you to be a better athlete. When they fail to do so, the athlete has the right to do something about it. The JV coach for East Kentwoods softball team is not a good coach. An athlete deserves a good coach who will be an asset to their athletic career. It is with much thought and patience that I am separating
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She would say things such as “why are they even on this team” or “can’t they do anything right?” She was flat out rude to the team and showed us no respect.
One of the biggest things she wouldn’t to is that she never encouraged us. That is one of the most important things that a coach. Obviously, you need your coach to be hard on you and always push you to try harder, but at the same time you need encouragement to want to work harder.
My softball coach had a bad attitude all the time. She made going to practice miserable, and made being apart of the team a terrible thing. She never gave us confidence that we would win. She would remind us of the sprints we would have for strikeouts and outs given during an inning before every game. We had lost the game before we even started. Half of the team was just waiting for the season to end so we would be done. After being on EK’s JV team, I grew to hate the sport that I had loved since I was six years old.
Those ten things are things that do not make a good coach. She failed at being a coach, and does not deserve this coaching position at East
She would say things such as “why are they even on this team” or “can’t they do anything right?” She was flat out rude to the team and showed us no respect.
One of the biggest things she wouldn’t to is that she never encouraged us. That is one of the most important things that a coach. Obviously, you need your coach to be hard on you and always push you to try harder, but at the same time you need encouragement to want to work harder.
My softball coach had a bad attitude all the time. She made going to practice miserable, and made being apart of the team a terrible thing. She never gave us confidence that we would win. She would remind us of the sprints we would have for strikeouts and outs given during an inning before every game. We had lost the game before we even started. Half of the team was just waiting for the season to end so we would be done. After being on EK’s JV team, I grew to hate the sport that I had loved since I was six years old.
Those ten things are things that do not make a good coach. She failed at being a coach, and does not deserve this coaching position at East