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The Reality of Participation Awards Suppose you are seven years old and involved in a sport. You, along with your teammates, worked extremely hard all season and won the championship. At the end of the season, your team, as well as the other teams, are given participation awards for simply being involved with the activity. How would the participation award make you feel? Participation trophies cause a lot of controversy with people. Do participation trophies have a positive impact, or are…

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. There is a strong belief throughout the locker room that the Huskies are going to come out with a win, but the extra push from Coach Dale might send them into the “big headed” mindset. This is why Dale announces “there's a…

The amount of control we have in what happens in our lives is often heavily debated. Do we have full power over what happens, or are there some things that just have to occur? This question can be answered using the nonfiction books The Sports Gene by David Epstein, and Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Both stories revolve around expertise in a certain hobby, and whether or not our choices determine our expertise in that hobby. In Outliers, Gladwell supports that we do have…

Glory road 1.Glory Road is a story about a small Texas college basketball team. Texas Western it's coach, Don Haskins, and how it became the first college to use an all African American starting line and win the 1966 NCAA Championship for Division 1 schools. Based on true events, this movie is a rollercoaster of emotions for both the viewers and the characters. The African american majority of the team was recruited by Don Haskins from all over America. Throughout the movie, the team, the coach…

Basketball Nerd “If only I could beat Tommy in basketball,” I though. Everyone would laugh at him and I could prove that I am good at sports. I have recently moved in because of getting bullied in other schools. I have gotten pushed into lockers, punched in the face and even locked in the teacher’s lounge. My parents are sick of me getting bullied. They are hoping for no bullies to be in this school and if so they will just homeschool me. I get bullied because of my ways of dressing to…

Leading with the Heart Review by Matthew Schneider Concordia University Irvine MCAA 573 April 29, 2017 Professor Ken Ammann In the book Leading with the Heart by Coach Krzyzewski has great insight on coaching and how to be a better coach. He has great insight on how to be a leader of a team. Coach Krzyzewski has great advice on how to deal with coaches, players, and everyone around the team. The book gives background information on Coach Krzyzewski and how his early life…

among athletes are in the head”, as Farrey provides us with in the book. A good example of a great performer who was a subpar athlete was Bill Walton, a UCLA basketball standout. Walton didn’t become an outstanding basketball player because of his genes, but rather he wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of his dream of becoming a basketball player. 2. The California Cyrobank case is one of the strangest cases I have ever heard. To me, it shows how important the role of sports in…

Why Be On a Fitness Team? I am often asked, “why be on a fitness team, when this is an individual sport?”. I agree, this is an individual sport! When it comes down to show time, it is you, and you alone that is standing on that stage in 6 inch heels wearing the tiniest swimsuit decently possible. You are up there putting yourself, and your body on the line. You have trained, dieted, and sacrificed for weeks on end and now stand waiting for 5-6 other people to “judge” you and tell you just…

The Incredible Action Packed True Story of Hunter Johnson-Duquette The Broken Collarbone I was playing hockey in Negaunee. My team and I were playing against a team from Houghton and it was my first time playing against this team. This is my second year playing bantam meaning I was used to hitting and being hit so hitting the boards was not a big deal. We were winning 4-3 and I had a chance to move my way up the ice with the puck. I play on Defense meaning I am not usually the one who skates…

people and that is one of the reasons why I chose to be a point guard in basketball.The point guard's job is to tell his teammates what to do on the court.I have also helped other people by teaching them how to play basketball, for example I taught my friend how to shoot a basketball more efficiently.I thought him this by watching videos and learning from them.My friend believed his way was right because every coach and even NBA players have taught kids how to shoot like that.But,after watching…