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chance to become a coach for the disabled teams, work in the leagues and generally get involved in whatever way possible. In terms of anyone who has a disability, there are leagues you can enter and more than 700 affiliated teams to join (Association, 2015). UK sports and other organisations were supporting the development of the UKCC in different sports to create a standard of coaching in UK. By creating UKCC, any organisation such as schools and clubs that want to hire a coach can be assured…

let’s hold our heads high throughout the entire game.” ➢ We ran onto the field motivated and inspired. Our head coach announced the starting line-up. Part of me could not help but feel a little disappointed when I did not hear my name. ➢ I grabbed a yellow pinnie, and stood besides my fellow teammates. We prepared ourselves to watch the game from the sidelines in the…

currently a 3rd tier coach. If you take a closer look at the rankings he is actually next to last among coaches that were retained from the 2017 season; only beating Hue Jackson from the Browns (and 7 other newly hired head coaches who are unranked). Names like Todd Bowels, Vance Joseph, and Jay Gruden are supposedly better coaches than Koetter. While Koetter’s second year out of the gate left much to be desired, designating him to effectively only out rank a lowly Browns coach should make…

needs. Besides refining individual skills, the coach is also responsible for instilling good sportsmanship and team spirit, which are crucial during a game. Many high school…

The article Collegiate Coaches: An Examination of Motivational Style and Its Relationship to Decision Making and Personality includes a case study about what motivates coaches to continue coaching. 84 men and 53 women coaches took part in the investigation. The coaches were classified in four different categories: low intrinsic - low extrinsic, low intrinsic - high extrinsic, high intrinsic - low intrinsic, and high intrinsic - high extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation would be described one’s…

As a coach in the sport of basketball, my role into instructing technical, tactical, physiological, and mental skills are very straightforward. Firstly, in basketball, 3 specific technical skills I coach are discrete skills, serial skills, and continuous skills. For Example, as a discrete skill in basketball, I would teach a player how to rotate the basketball off of his hand. Also, and example of how I would teach serial skills in basketball would be a sequence of standard ball handling…

+Relationship: My client in this scenario is the Coach Jim Pitts, a middle school English teacher and boy’s football head coach. My primary focus is Coach Pitts. He is the client with a signed informed consent and he is responsible the financial piece of our professional relationship. Due to confidentiality, I cannot work directly with any of the athletes or parents. However, our agreement allows me to provide mental skills training to both the athletes and the parents as well as the use of…

people tend to undermine the importance of a basketball coach. Without a basketball coach, many of these athletes would not make it into the NBA. Moreover, many of these athletes would fail to develop their skills. Furthermore, college basketball determines who will make it in the professional league, or not. Also, it takes hard work and dedication. In addition, these athletes have to make numerous sacrifices. Moreover, a basketball coach channels an athlete's natural ability into something more…

George Karl has been a coach for NBA for almost 27 years. He collected 1,175 wins in 1,999 games (58.8%) for six teams he has coached throughout his career. Now that he seems to be retired to coaching, he wrote a book criticizing his former Denver Nuggets players Carmelo Anthony, Kenyon Martin and J.R. Smith. Karl began coaching the Nuggets in 2004 where Anthony was just a sophomore during that time. Having coached four teams before he took the helm to be a Nuggets coach, many believed that he…

the term ‘coaching philosophy’ and outline why it is important to reflect on your personal philosophy when working as a coach. “A coaching philosophy is a personal statement that is based on the values and beliefs that direct one’s coaching” (Kidman and Hanrahan 1997: 32) Coaching philosophy is having your attitude and your own persona that acts as a guideline in how you coach and how your session is presented. This is key and central in how that coach’s team performs in practice or…