Head coach

participate in athletics. They have practiced hard and studied the plays. Now as a coach, it is their job to lead these athletes and teams down victory lane. It is now the coaches’ responsibility to prepare the athletes to perform to the best of their ability, to teach the athletes how to be role models to the youth, and to make sure a team is as healthy, both mentally and physically. However, coaches cannot coach an athlete whose mind is clouded, coaches cannot teach an athlete to be a role…

Lou Holtz is a NCAA coach and is known to be an amazing leader for his teams. He has lead a team to many championships and bowls. The reason his team was so successful as a coach is because of his intelligence and his leadership skills. He had these characteristic help him become an amazing coach. Holtz was a very aware coach. He knew his players, his budget, his coaching skills, and the expectations from the fans. After his first year as a coach was a flop he decided to re-evaluate his…

First, a mindset of self-development can be facilitated through self-leadership, a requirement to authentically lead a team (Maxwell, 2003). Team members love and admire a coach that can help them go to the next level by empowering them to be successful; however, coaches cannot give what they do not have themselves (Maxwell, 2003). Coaches must first have the ability to lead themselves (e.g., identity, study, experiment, and embrace their own strengths) before leading others. Realizing…

concept to figure out what works and what doesn’t in order to get the most out of their players. Coaches have a core set of principles that they take with them to every program they coach at. The players must learn those rules and stick to them in order to strive within the program. The coaching philosophy that the coach chooses to implement at the beginning of their career will define every way in which the team will function…

Coach Karla in Mesquite is not only an amazing coach, but her fun, outgoing, bubbly personality lights up the gym whenever she is here! Karla has only been with ASI for a little over nine months, and is already a certified coach in Tiny Tots, Kidz Gym, Girls Gymnastics, Birthday Parties, and other Fun Products. Her Favorite to coach would have to be Tiny Tots, Karla is amazing when it comes to working with the babies in the Gym! In her short time of Coaching she has already made an impact in so…

All four years of high school I have been on the dance team. I have played on other sports teams as well but they all have one similarity;every team has a coach. To dance my passion and my teammates are my family, but sometimes coaches are cruel. Sometimes coaches pick favorites. They choose who earns a spot in the front row by who goes to their studio, or whose parents volunteer the most. Not based off of who deserves the spotlight, only who they like. I know all sports have this problem…

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…

In my experience master coaches are exactly how Coyle explains them to be in his book The Talent Code. I remember a hockey coach I once had...Pat MacLeod. He was always a caring mentor, and he also gave specific advice to show me how to improve my basic skills. As Coyle said on page 186, “Most master coaches delivered their information to their students in a series of short, vivid, high-definition bursts.” Mr. MacLeod would skate along with me and watch intently observing everything I did; he…

The person I decided to write my essay on was my basketball coach my senior year, Brian McIntosh. He only coached at my high school for one year, and prior to that he was an assistant coach at Emporia State University. Taking his expertise and leadership skills McIntosh helped take my team who had struggled the previous season and give them a last and successful season. He changed the atmosphere of the program and that year held the best record my school’s girl basketball team had seen in a long…

to reach their personal and professional potentials. Cushion (2006) states that a large part of coaching knowledge and practice is based on experiences, such as working with and observing experienced coaches. This provides a great opportunity for a coach to learn and develop his/her understanding from someone with a greater knowledge and experience (Mitchell, 2013). Over the last eight weeks I’ve had the…