Team management

acceptable level. In life you must also learn the basics. You must establish what life is, what it means to you and want you from it. Basketball is a team sport, which means it requires contribution and cooperation from every member in order to play well and win. Everyone must focus, work together and fulfill their individual roles for the common good of the team. Not only was basketball teaching me how to act after a game, but teaching me life lessons. I believe that life isn’t fair, and I…

Sometimes friends become similar to a family. One of the best things I have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. What I didn't know at the time was how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. To start, I was really excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer but I was a little nervous. I thought about what the other kids would think about me. Would they think…

Porterville High School frosh-off basketball team. I wasn't the best one on the team, but I did my part. I was always intimidated by all the other girls on the team, this intimidation was controlling me, and it wasn't allowing me to be the person, and player I truly was. I was never loud, rough, nor did I ever play dirty so it came as a big surprise when I got into a fight with another player. It was against our rivals the Moanche High School girls basketball team, so the game was already…

the first and second rounds of playoffs, we knocked out a first seeded team (whom we had lost to during our regular season) and a fifth seeded team. For both of these teams, we had a desire to win. We knew we could, we just had to execute it. And we did. We won both of those games, and we went on to the Southern Final. At the Southern Final game, we knew what we had to do to win. We had to work as a unit, outrun the other team, and out work them. Unfortunately, we didn’t. We didn’t work as a…

competitive. In middle school, we had tryouts, which I wasn’t use to before. Then we were split into two teams: A Team and B Team. When you look at the teams and think, A Team has to stand for the best players, while B Team is the bad players. No, that is not what that means at all. It just means that the players on the A Team had a greater skill level of basketball than the players on the B Team. Therefore, as I entered high school, I knew I wanted to…

When I was 14, I struggled on my soccer team, so I got private sessions with another coach twice a week. I would go out and practice and work over and over again. These trainings were painfully boring, but my coach would simply ask me to do drills over, pointing out mistakes I made as I went. I nearly quit. Towards the end of the season, the C team coach, someone who I didn't know at all, came up and asked me to try playing with him for a game or two. During the games, I started out feeling…

between two teams is always a big deal. The stakes are even higher when this rivalry comes between a city. Rochester Hills is home to two very different colleges, Oakland University and Rochester College. When the two meet it is much like the U of M versus MSU during football season. The RC versus OU hockey matches, known as the Battle of the Jug, is one of the biggest hockey series of the season. The Battle for the Jug is one of the few series of games that the city divides and one team comes…

When it comes to working in teams there are many dynamics that effect how every one works together. In evaluating a team, you must pay attention to specific characteristics that makes a group effective. An effective group is one that achieves high levels of task performance, member satisfaction, and team viability. Task performance in an effective group achieves its performance goals in the standard sense of quantity, quality, and timeliness of work results. For member satisfaction, in an…

filling the air at the football game. Looking up into the stands, I can see the support from all the student section fans and how proud they are of the team they are supporting. I see a loud, obnoxious yelling fool, he obviously thinks he is the coach. There is also the guy that is sitting down not cheering but patiently watching to see if the team is going to come through or not. Differences surround the football field, and that is what makes up the crowd. The student section fans are the…

Paying Student Athletes Success isn’t given. It's earned. On the track, on the field, in the gym. With blood, sweat, and the occasional tear. Most every athlete loves the game, and is willing to work their butt off, from being on the B team going to the A team, from jv to varsity, from high school to college. They all dream of that college scholarship that they may or not receive. What happens when they get there? They no longer have their mommies and daddies paying for every little thing.…