Personal Narrative: My First Football Coach

Improved Essays
Through the 10 years of me playing football I’ve had and met multiple coaches that I’ve liked of disliked, but at the end of the day you have to deal with them and play the sport you love. The first coach I ever had as soon as I started playing football was David Price and he was the best coach anyone could ask for. He was a tough coach meaning you had to work for your position but at the end of the day you could sit down and talk to him. Every year we played we had a winning season and never backed down from anyone. The practices would be awesome we would do drills to work our technique like: run drills, tackling drills, and in the end play a tackling game or play tug of war.
The best times of my life were playing with my little league team
…show more content…
It was a coach from another school that went to state two years before that and he brought his dad in that was 82 years old and he changed my way of thinking about myself and the others on the team from hating my coach to loving all of them and respecting them more than I have respected anyone in my entire life. Every day he would tell me that I was the leader of the team and that if I wasn’t showing that I wanted to be here and have the spirit to practice then that would change the entire teams’ effort of the practice. He is in the hall of fame for high school football because he was always positive and never put anyone of the players down like the coach before him. That made me want to play as hard as I could because at the end of the game I knew that he would be proud of me no matter the outcome of the game. The last game of the season was the hardest game not because we lost or that I got hurt it was because I knew that it was my last time playing for my coach that had built a strong connection and I will always have the most respect for him no matter what. The bond that he built with every player he has ever met was amazing on his birthday he told us how many people said happy birthday to him was almost all football players that he had coached and that have told him that he was the one that got them places because of the way he

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Do you want to know how I grew up from a small town in Iowa to the best football player and coach? When I was about 8 I started playing football. I was the best linebacker in high school and college football. I was the 1st, 1st round pick in the NFL draft. Retired and became the best football coach in history.…

    • 676 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hoosiers Research Paper

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Coach Dale, head coach of the Indian Huskies, on the movie Hoosiers is a strong asset to the team’s success. He is a coach who boost self esteem instead of lowering it. Most coaches only want to win, but Dale wants to see the best of his players which you can see when he says “to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what scoreboard says at the end of game, in my book we’re gonna be winners.” The job of a coach cannot be an easy one, they have to fully give themselves to the team. Coaches are on the road two or three nights of the week, especially basketball coaches.…

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During my high school years of football, our team had to learn how to deal with adversity. In my four years of playing football at Forest City I played for six different football coaches. It is nearly unheard of to have that many coaches in a four year span of life, nearly all high school athletes can make it through high school with all the same coaches without them leaving. While playing under one of the many I had, he took us to the move When the Game Stands Tall. This movie is about one of the most storied programs in high school sports throughout the entire United States.…

    • 765 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I angrily paced around my bedroom as even thinking about the coach made my pulse raise and blood boil. I always tell myself I should say something, tell the coach how I really feel. But every time one of my fellow team members tries to say something to the coach he shuts them down and walks away. He never listens, not even to the parents. Every single time someone’s mom or dad mentions or suggests something to the coach he always blames the player and punishes him.…

    • 886 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bleachers Looking back on my high school career, one person had a major impact on my life was Eddie Rake. He was my coach and leader on and off the football field. Rake was my football coach from sixth grade to my senior year he always pushed me to do better. I didn’t like him at all but I respected him as a person and a coach.…

    • 266 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    A coach does many things for a team, prepare them for the games, motivate them when they are down, and win Championships. What else makes a great coach?. Therefore they are a great influence on the team. The three greatest NFL Coaches of the last half of the 20th Century Vince Lombardi, Mike Ditka, and Don Shula. These three men all have something in common, a coach has to have good stats,influence on the game, and public image.…

    • 78 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Coach Olson Essay

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages

    A Coach or an Inspiration? Even though my track and cross-country coach, Mr. Olson, may not have realized it, he has made me a better person throughout my high school career. His consistent positive attitude and the way he believes in people has changed how I see things. Sadly, I only have one more track season left with his direction.…

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Coach That Started It All Jeff wagner coach, father, family man. My first year of football he showed me the ropes. He worked with me knowing i was out of shape and had never played before. He dealt with me having breakdowns and being uncoachable and attitudes and everything else that i put him through. Jeff was there for me and he is there for me now…

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Personal Narrative-A-Team

    • 824 Words
    • 4 Pages

    It was October 16, 2012. I was in seventh grade, just a boy to become someone or something. We were loading the bus with our two coaches, Coach Voss and Coach Larh. Coach Voss the offensive coach who liked to make us run, and coach larh, our Defensive coach who taught me everything I known about the defensive side of the ball. This was a big game for me and my fellow teammates this game was going to set the tone for the rest of the season to show that we can be successful.…

    • 824 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Football game It was the third game of the season. We were playing Zeeland on the varsity football field. We warmed up on the 45 yard line. My team started with stretches then moved on to sprints,bearcrwals, all the warmups. Sawyer, Preston, and I were chosen to be in the coin toss.…

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    It was the end of my sophomore soccer season on Junior Varsity. We didn't win a single game and got blown out by large margins game after game. It hurt me to leave the field on our last game with so little success in the entire season. I was deeply disappointed and wanted deep down to have more success . I knew next year was different I was going to pour my heart and soul and make the Varsity and move on from this year.…

    • 646 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To learn I needed a coach. This coach is someone very special to me, my dad. There is so much praise for how my dad has taught me all about sports. Ever since I was born, he wanted me to be an athlete. This is similar to Two Kinds where the mother wants her daughter to become a genius, but I prefer to play sports over the majority of activities in the world.…

    • 436 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My sunburn lines between my shorts and socks symbolized the restless, tiring hours spent out on the field. Every Tuesday and Thursday, for two and a half hours, the sun scorched my body while my legs would scrape into the ground. The cluster consisted of the seniors’ looming bodies that would go shoulder to shoulder against my own freshman self as our feet would battle for control. While this exhaustion enthralled and encouraged my game, the sprints, planks, runs, and more caused me to dread going to that grassy field every week. The humidity produced heavy, useless pants from my lungs as my throat would feel as if it was closing in from a claustrophobic nightmare.…

    • 660 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The coach that had the most impact on me was Coach Dave. He was my coach in middle school for the local YMCA team and the lessons he taught me then stuck with me through high school and still to this day. The relationship that we had a “master and apprentice” feel to it. As a child in middle school I was stubborn and hated when people told me what to do. He was almost certainly one of the first people to make such a huge impact on me that I actually listened to what he said.…

    • 513 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than themselves.” That almost perfectly described my baseball coach. Joe Henning. The only thing off about this quote that's different from my “hombre” (he sometimes calls me) is that “gives his or her life.” He at least gets a 2 month break!! When baseball season comes around his plan is go to work, baseball practice then go to bed.…

    • 809 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays