Coach

Phil Jackson "One thing I’ve learned as a coach is that you can’t force your will on people. If you want them act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves." And that is exactly what Phil Jackson did during his 21 year coaching career. Phil Jackson was abnormal compared to your run of the mill coach. He opened his players minds to a new approach of the game of basketball. He challenged them to be less selfish and he encouraged team basketball. Over the twenty one years of…

“New Coach Heads Titan Football” While two high school are coming together as one, a problem arose. Coach Bill Yoast who was formally the head coach of Hammond High had been recently knocked down to assistant coach with the head coach position being taken by Herman Boone. Some of the community is shocked while others are glad for some change. Boone is described as a coach who respects all players and teaches them to work hard. The season will have to show us how good he really is.…

Three years ago Kent State redshirt sophomore Jimmy Hall was sitting inside of a jail cell in New York. Three years ago Hall’s basketball, and possibly his future, was over. Hall had been arrested and charged with burglary. That was the moment in Hall life when for the first time in his life when he realized that there were serious consequences for his mistakes. “We were just kids who weren’t doing the right thing,” Hall said of the situation. “We got caught up in something we weren’t…

Parenting today is different than parenting in the past, therefore kids of today are different from kids of the past. With parents and kids being different, it changes the coaching style of coaches today. Women’s basketball coaches across the country have had recent discussion about the difference in coaching styles from the days of Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt, C. Vivian Stringer (in her early years), and Andy Landers to today’s coaching styles. It’s believed that some of these coaches, if not all…

person’s life, but how that person’s decisions can affect the people around them. The title “Swagger” comes from a quote from Jonas Dolan’s coach, which he stated “get a little swagger in your game, and other teams will back off.…

Beaming, her coach handed her a Ring Pop. They’re giving those out tonight? Those are even better than the chocolate coins! I exclaimed in my head. I sat through similar tales of gentleness and sportsmanship, chewing my lip in anxiety. I wonder who won for the Green Division. I let a goal through, so it can’t be me… I was jolted back to the present as I saw my coach standing up, reaching for the mic. Okay. There are 10 other people on…

self-reflection sheet Respond to these questions with your feelings and thoughts about coaching. What was your initial reaction to the coaching exercise? Reaction time itself is an inherent ability, but overall response time can be improved by practice. Coach and athletes need to analyse the type of skill and the requirements of their sport and decide where overall response gains can be made. Consider the following: • Detecting the cue - in a sprint start, focusing on the starter's voice and…

when trying to become a teacher and coach, you must have a philosophy or guidelines that should followed. A coach’s philosophy should have many factors that accommodate student and the task assigned to them. These following requirements are essential to succeed as a teacher, and as well as a coach. A teacher/coach should have a great work ethic. They need to be willing to do whatever it takes to succeed in hard times and can perform it the correct way. A teacher/coach needs to have a…

The counseling technique of coaching comes in various ways and types to the counseling field. Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches’ help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they…

various techniques in doing so, such as showing practical wisdom, value, and disinterest. Amaechi uses practical wisdom by explaining his personal experience in sports bullying. When he was playing sports at University, “[Amaechi] had an assistant coach who would engineer drills to maximize the chance of fighting or…