Athletic Leadership

Sport’s are an aspect of life that affect societies across the globe. Athletics affect everyone's life, whether that be playing the sport, watching games, or hearing about a sporting event. There is a big difference between playing an individual sport and players relying on their own athletic abilities versus a team sport when members of the team rely on their teammates to complete each individual's specific responsibility to reach the team's goal. Team sports bring people together in countless ways, and they teach many life skills for the athletes that participate in them. Some of these skills include communication, teamwork, discipline, work ethic, dedication, leadership, and numerous more that will help them in their personal and work

Playing sports is a great way to develop leadership skills. I’ve played softball since I could walk. It has been my passion ever since I started. Being the captain of my team for 2 years has taught me how to be a great problem solver, to be confident in myself, and to be a very hard worker. Leaders should be the first person you think of to go to for advice on a problem you’re having. Being a leader I have to do the right thing all the time not only when it is convenient because everyone is watching me. No matter what the situation people turn to me to help guide the team as a whole, on and off the field. If I make an error everyone sees how I react and they use that as an example for how they should act and have good sportsmanship. I have

This study had five main variables. First, the “inclusion climate,” or how unified the students felt their team was. This was measured by three questions on a 1 to 6 scale. Next was “willingness to cheat,” or the perceived readiness of fellow teammates to be dishonest, which was measured by a 1 to 5 scale question. Also measured was the “college choice satisfaction,” or how content the students felt about their choice of college. This was measured by three questions on a 1 to 7 scale. Next was “ethical leadership,” or whether the student felt that the coach was running the team with positive morals. It was measured by six questions on a 1 to 5 scale. Last was “abusive coaching behavior,” or how the students felt about their coach’s amount of abuse or lack thereof. This was assessed with three questions on a 1 to 5 scale. The perceived ethical climate of the school (measured via three 1 to 5 scale items), as well as the gender of the team, how much media attention the team

Athletic directors typically appreciate working with coaches and athletes to improve teams by helping them reach their full potential by being responsible, working well with people, speaking well in front of a large crowd, and most importantly being a strong leader. Oftentimes athletic directors get overlooked, and won’t get the recognition they deserve, because all the glory and praise usually goes to the outstanding coaches who get the job done for their teams. Many people will totally forget about the tactical side of being in an athletic office. Seeing the vision long term, being persistent, and diligent is most definitely key to being a responsible leader of athletics in that particular school. Athletic directors should usually like being

The first concern with being a coach is where to start with training the players. The coach is to measure skill levels of the individuals, their mentality of the sport, and also, how they interact with each other is key to being a coach. Secondly, the most important role of a coach is to be the role model for his/her players and to be able to have patients and be forthright more often then not. A great place to start coaching is by understanding the dynamics of the team. This is the process of figuring out how team members relate to one another (Understand Team Dynamics). Forming positive relationships with the players and also, the parents to acquire trust and assure the players a comfortable environment would help with understanding dynamics. Gaining positive attitudes from everyone involved will show a growth in skill relationship between the teammates, also the positive attitude will make practices, games, and constructive criticism easier to come by. Having patients with the less skilled is something that every coach needs to have. Individual athletes look to coaches for leadership and encouragement beyond the sports environment, and this also carries over to athletic performance. According to Athletic Insight, the relationship between a coach and a student-athlete determines overall motivation and stress levels (Leadership and Individual Performance). From personal experience, when I had gotten along with a coach, and they were easy to talk to, the practices were more fun to go to, the games were easier and all the players played as one unit. Getting constructive criticism was easy to take and I became very coachable. The coach has more responsibilities than just holding a practice, game, having a plan to the game or practice, but also bringing a friendly and easy environment to be involved in. Coaches can push the psychological, emotional, and physical limits of their players to the point of harm, create

There were a total of 30 people interviewed throughout this research. There were fifteen men and fifteen women, all of which are in a profession that is related the field of sport leadership. The subjects were randomly selected. There were 5 athletic directors, 10 athletes, 3 sportscasters, 7 athletic administrators, and 8 were a part of the academia side of athletics. The subject pool consisted of fourteen African Americans, ten Caucasians, and six Latin Americans. Each race was divided into equal parts: male and female. The age range for the subjects ranged from 22 years old to 50 years old. Interviews are a form of qualitative research, and was deemed the best way for the researchers to gather information on the topic. There was much brainstorming associated with building the questionnaire for this research. The researchers had to come up with a way to answer each aspect of the topic. The researchers were able to divide the topic being examined into five parts: leadership, coaching, equal pay, presentation, and team sports. Each section was different, but each other related in some way back to the presentation of females in team sport leadership. Three pilot studies took place to ensure validity of the questionnaire, and then edited by the researchers to better suit the study. See Appendix I. The questions were randomly selected by the researchers to gather information on people’s views about females in sport leadership roles. The process of selecting questions for each

Coaches are involved in every sport, whether someone is playing football or even chess team. Each coach own his/her own special style of coaching intrigued me. I pondered about how each coaching style can affect the player’s performances, and how player’s personalities can connect better with some coaches than others. Some coaches even venture to cross over and coach multiple sports, propelling themselves into an entirely different atmosphere, where they must adjust their coaching specifically to the sport.

The study describes the several positives outcomes associated with leadership in athletic trainers. The positive outcomes include: leadership in others, credibility, new or strengthened relationships, consensus, motivation, higher morale, dedication of followers, learning, mutual respect, empowerment, critical thinking, positive change, innovation, creativity, a sense of direction and hope for the future, stronger sense of community, personal growth, and satisfaction and contentment (Kutz, 2010). Leadership is an important skill for athletic trainers to have and can be used within different fields of sports medicine including concussion

Have you ever wondered why an athlete doesn't perform well? The coaching job could be the answer. Across the world, athletes are performing daily with success and with failure. The coach is potentially the one to blame when things don’t go well. The way a coach teaches can affect the athletes in many ways. They can be detrimental or they can be positive; either way they have lifelong impact on the athlete.

Research indicates that only 5-10% of youth sport coaches have not received any relevant training. Formal coaching education programs are a primary tool for transferring such information to new and developing coaches, while also ensuring that practicing coaches acquire and maintain the critical knowledge and skills standards set by their respective organization’s leadership ( NCACE. Quality Coaching Education.,

Communication is a vital component of any sporting activity. It envelops two key components: having the capacity to converse with individuals and having the capacity to tune in to individuals. It is basic that a pioneer has the capacity to get his or her point crosswise over to the group or even to every player exclusively. Research also suggests that an athlete’s perception of the coach’s behavior can be a determinant of possible outcomes or results. A coach’s behavior can have indirect impact on athletes’ perceptions, interpretation, and evaluation of those behaviors, which influences the athlete’s self-perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes().

As a coach of any sport it is important to structure situations to meet the needs of your players.A coach must understand what motivates his athletes because the tactics used to motivate one athlete may be very different from the tactics used to motivate the other teammates. For an example, in basketball one player may perform well

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT- any issues that arise can be resolved and conflict can be managed successfully; OPENNESS- the good coach promotes open lines of communication which helps with conflict management. The athlete can approach the coach easily ; MOTIVATION – athletes want to be part of a successful relationship ; PREVENTATIVE – coach can predict problems that may arise, they discuss ‘what if’ scenarios and expectations ; ASSURANCE – the coach assures the athlete that they are committed and makes personal sacrifices as proof ; SUPPORT- coaches help the athlete

Chapter One lays the groundwork for understanding what researchers have found and are continuing to search for in coach-athlete relationships, as well as explores its importance and effect on those involved in relationship. As authors Sophia Jowett and Artur Pocwardowski progress through the chapter, they unveil the aspects of the coach-athlete relationship that can make them succeed or fail, how they can benefit or harm the individuals involved, as well as how the progress or regress. All these qualities are examined under different lights by four researchers that have created their own conceptual models of how the coach-athlete relationship is built and explains how the relationship is important to the participants by applying different

Leadership has an impactful presence on the participation of sport. Various leadership styles and tendencies are displayed by coaches and administrators and we look to examine how these dimensions of leadership correlate with participant responsiveness, satisfaction, and motivation. In addition to the effects of leadership on participation, the effectiveness of multi-dimensional leaders will be discussed as well as the examination of leadership behaviors that yield the most satisfactory results among participants. It is important to note that there are many leadership behaviors; however we will look closely at the behaviors of the Leadership Scale for Sports developed by Chelladurai and Saleh (1980), which includes one task orientation: training and instruction behaviors, two styles of leaderships: democratic behaviors and autocratic behaviors, and two motivation factors: social support behaviors, and rewarding behaviors (Loughead and Hardy, 2005).