Brigade combat team

didn't go as planned but if you step back and look at the 3 goals that were scored by them first half, they were goals that trinkled in. Its hard to watch but it happens and will continue to happen at this age. Second half the girls out performed the team 2-1 and looked much better. Its still a process and will take time,so be patient. Right now at their age size,strength,speed will trump skills all day long but that playing field eventually evens out and its skills are what will separate them…

enough to cut in the dugout. Hostility was oozing off two of my teammates who were fighting for the same starting spot and, as a leader, it as my responsibility to keep the unity of the team. I was determined to find a solution to their fighting, for their bickering and fighting would often bring down the morale of the team and cast a dark cloud around them in the dugout.…

My first year at Saint Benedict’s Prep was an experience I would never forget because of the things I did during my freshman year. I had to get used to the fact that I started school in July rather than September. While all my other friends were enjoying their vacation, I was in school learning about the traditions of the school. I came into Saint Benedict’s as a kid who didn't care much about school, and just joined because of the soccer program. My first week was an experience that one…

Alexis Charlton and I were partners at a setting drill. We were terribly bad, and the coach helping us just kind of shook his head at us. We thought it was absolutely hilarious. We decided that was the coach we hoped to have. We wanted to make the same team, and we wanted him to be our coach. That is actually what ended up happening! We were so excited. Another time, I was practicing setting at Illini Elite. We were in a group doing work on our setting. The coach would toss us a ball, and we had…

W is for Winning When I first joined a basketball league, our team was one of the worst teams in the league. We were on a losing streak (0-5) and I started to get sick of it. I told my coach if he could improve the team because I was sick of losing. He felt me and started to push the team. We did rigorous drills each practice and each time I came home, my arms or legs were sore. Everyday, my dad worked on my upper strength to increase my shooting range and this really helped. Although the…

with others, that you can’t expect everything to go your way, and that you can’t win all the time. I could use those three lessons in life. Being part of a team sport has taught me to work with other people. In order to play well, everyone has to work together. Even though it’s a team, you still have to pull your own weight. Y’all play as a team and you can’t blame just one person if y’all lose. Everyone is gonna have a bad day, but you just have to encourage them to keep going and…

place where I show the most leadership is the sports field. Of the two sports seasons so far this year I have been on Junior Varsity and Varsity for both of them and during Track in the spring there is only Junior Varsity and Varsity, no Freshman teams. During the final day of volleyball tryouts we had a "conditioning day" where we would rotate through stations with a different exercise routine at each and one station was a coaches meeting. These were my first tryout of high school and they were…

Many studies have been accomplished on the developmental sequence in small groups, one of them is Tuckman's contribution. Tuckman(1965) reviewed fifty-five literature and suggested that the life cycle of a team involves four stages which are forming, storming, norming and performing. The first stage of Tuckman's model is forming. This stage is characterized by dependency, which means group should initially establish a relationship with leaders, other group members and preexisting standard.…

Cohesive Teams According to Bruce Tuckman’s research into group dynamics, he developed ‘Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development’, wherein concluded that there are five stages that teams experience during either the lifespan of the team, if it is a temporary team, or the task, if it is a permanent team. The theory relates to how teams become less formal and more focussed as the team progresses towards goals and members gain focus. These stages are as follows: Forming During this stage the team…

fourth weekend of October, the Emmaus Youth Association, (EYA), entered two U12 travel softball teams into the end of the year softball tournament at Northampton High School to see who would become the Lehigh Valley U12 Softball champion. The two teams were Emmaus Yellow coached by Bill Held, and Emmaus Green coached by Traci Krapf. In this double elimination tournament, a tournament that has a team lose two games instead of the traditional one, the Emmaus Green’s bats went silent as they lost…