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Coaching Team Research Paper

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As an athlete a coach has the most impact on you over any other person. Teammates can leave and not change the makeup of the team, but if a coach decides to no longer coach, then the entire team can fall apart. A folding team is the worst situation for an athlete and that is exactly what happened to me.My coach, who I had known since I was seven, witnessed her proposal, and attended her wedding, finally was pregnant with a baby girl. The newly discovered fetus created an exciting time for her and her family as well as us players. With our head coach of three years finding out she was expecting, our team folded, I had to find a new team to play for, some great athletes left the game for good, and her coaching career ended.
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The new team decided to branch out from a larger organization and were looking for older girls to help the younger players. I thought my softball career was going to put on hold for a year and would affect me playing in college,but I began to play with them in August. My old team had shown me my first college interests. It gave me my first college visit and softball practice. But, this new team gave me the opportunity to play college softball here at Concord. Our coach leaving us without a team did not end our careers, it just forced us to decide if we really wanted to play in college.
A coach’s impact has more of an effect on athletes than most would expect. When our coach decided to leave the team some of my teammates decided to leave the game as well. Our softball team was like a close knit family that spent every weekend together on a softball field. When the news broke that our coach was pregnant some players had the difficult discussion with their parents about leaving the game. Although most of the girls who play travel softball play to go to college some just play because they love the game. Those girls who did not want to play in college thought it would be better and save their family money if they just stopped playing altogether. When our coach decided to leave the team, some girls left the game they loved with her.

The pregnancy of our coach proved difficult for us as players but the road ahead for our

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