Having a strong coaching philosophy helps build trust and respect between you and your student-athletes. As a coach, you must know what your principles, core values, and beliefs are. Then, as a coach, you must actively show those traits. The team will generally mimic how the coach acts and how they conduct themselves. That is also relative to the respective age group that you are involved with. So for a coach to know where he/she stands and portray those traits actively to his/her player's shows he believes in what he is coaching. In my experience, if a coach does not have the respect of his athletes, they are not willing to follow him/her. I also belief that a coach who truly believes in his own coaching philosophy; cares more and gets
