IUPUI Women's Basketball Team

Coach Steve Rocker is one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in Kentucky’s history. Coach Rocker was very successful in previous years. Strangely, this year was very different for him. For the first time in his professional life, he is falling short of his expectations, the community expectations, and the team’s expectations. His team lost a lot of games, but most importantly the boys had no motivation or desire to bring the team out of the rut they found themselves. His players have lost their will to win, their love for their teammates, and their passion to play. Coach Rocker’s motivational methods that have always worked before and resulted in success are now failing, and he doesn’t know why. He argues that his players have become selfish and bored with winning because they have been so successful in previous years. “And there’s no question that my guys have lost their drive to win because they’ve won so much in the past. Now all they want is individual ‘wins’…which just doesn’t cut it on a team” (Gongwer, 2010, p. 17).

At this stage, the group begins to realize the more positive points of individuals within the group, which promotes the development of trust and respect which begins to build group cohesion. The next stage is the performing stage, which is typical of high-performing teams that are able to function as a group and figure out various options to get the job done smoothly and effectively without supervision. The final stage is the adjourning phase, which is the final step in completing tasks and breaking up the team.

Unfortunately we still had tension among players. It even got as far as one player taking the ball from another on the field in the middle of the game. As the season progressed, this problem practically solved itself as we bonded at practices, pre-game get-togethers, and voluntarily spending time together on weekends. We grew from barely tolerating each other to being such a tight-knit group that even schoolmates noticed.

Forming is the stage when a group initially need to come together and get to know each other, then the team sets a goal. This is when the

I attended the NIU Women’s Basketball game against Ball State. This game was part of the Play 4kay cancer organization game. Kay Yow was created on honor for Coach Yow, who had a “vision to unite a nation of coaches, players, and the women’s basketball community to do something for the greater good that far exceeds wins and losses on the court.”(Womack). During this game everyone had pink on from the players to the coaches. NIU’s full uniform was pick while the opponents had pink shoes, their dancer had multiple pink outfits that they changed into. During the time outs and half times they had a lot of activates, golf putting, kids shooting free throw for money donations, cancer survivors acknowledgements, and the NIU dancer performances.

Mastery Charter North’s high school basketball team made it to the finals of the Pennsylvania state tournament last year and are looking to improve this year. This paper will discuss how they plan on being successful again. They will depend on their group traits to keep them bonded together. Also they have some players stepping up and taking leadership roles, after the leaders from last year left.

Dribble! Pass! Take! Swish! Swoosh! Yes that is Kentucky, the best college basketball team to play for or just to watch. They have a good team put together. Those boys work hard and play smart together. Because they work together, I think it has gotten them very far.

Dedication. Teamwork. Leadership. Success. Those are four traits the U.S. and the 1992 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team, also known as The Dream Team, have in common. Without question, The Dream Team was the best team to ever be assembled in the history of sports and it was created after a devastating third place in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Ready to come back winning, the U.S. compiled eleven all-star NBA players (Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, etc.) and one college player (Christian Laettner) who is known as the best college basketball player ever.

From their friendships came trust. They became open to the constructive criticism of each other. “As they began to see traces of tension and nervousness in one another, they began instinctively to draw closer together. They took to huddling on the float before and after workouts, talking about what, precisely, they could do to make each other row better than the one before, looking one another in the eye, speaking earnestly” (Brown 326) As a team, they came to an understanding that their strength as a group was their endurance. Each teammate never gave up because he did not want to let his teammates down. Working together in class and in sports at Belmont Hill builds friendship and trust. From my first day in school, I was welcomed by my classmates and I felt like I became part of something. I expect that eventually I will develop friendships and bonds of trust with my classmates. My classmates represent a diverse collection of talents and abilities. I feel that I can learn something from each one of them, and hopefully they can learn something from

At Hargrave, however, I never felt any real team spirit I found tightly knit team bonds. Teams are seen as brothers and the chemistry between one another is impossible to achieve at any other school. We acknowledge the hardships we struggle against day after day and it strengthens our bond and chemistry as a team. When faced against even more advanced teams, because of our tightly knit bond, we can beat highly skilled opponents. This chemistry and bond between one another truly improved my athletic ability and my capability as an

This stage sees group members begin to confront each other as they begin to vie for roles within the group that will help them to belong and to feel valued. Thus as members begin to assert their individual personalities, the comfort of the forming stage begins to come under siege. Members experience personal, intra and inter group conflicts. Aggression and resentment may manifest in this stage and thus if strong personalities emerge and leadership is unresponsive to group and individual needs, the situation may become destructive to the

The uconn Huskies are the most successful women's basketball team in the nation. They have won 11 NCAA Division 1 national championships. They have won 107 games in a row and haven't lost a game since November 17, 2014. The last game they played they won by 56. Also the last game they played Katie Lou scored 40 points and made all of her threes she ended up with 10 threes after the game. They defiantly are not going to lose this season. If they did lose than a lot of people wold be upset cause their winning streak would end. Their coach is Geno Auriemma. The closest game they have played this season they only won by 8. But uconn is defiantly the best women's basketball team in the

Unfortunately, after that last State Championship, and because of the loss of so many veteran performers, a new team leader never emerged and with it, arose a team of individuals that, despite my urging in various ways, accepted a work ethic that was nowhere near what it had been over the past few years. Even though it took me awhile to recognize it, it appeared to me that this new team’s view and mindset was something like: “I’m working harder than I ever have in my life now, what more do you want?”, and I really couldn’t disagree with their assessment.

One rainy night in November, I arrived to the church gym for my first basketball practice of the season. As I walked in the doors creaked and you could smell the gym floor. As I already heard the basketballs hitting the ground, bouncing up and down. My friends Brittany and Destiny walked in right behind me through the door. That was when we realized we were the only girls surrounded by all guys. As practice came to a start we began to run, it felt like we were never going to stop. Up and down the court as we ran suicides, you could hear the squeaking of shoes as we went from the next line back and then on to the next. Before we started scrimmaging, the two captains were boys. Brittany, Destiny, and I stood in amazement as we were the last three standing there. You could see by their expressions they didn’t want any of us on either team.

Team accomplishes goals; Maybe difficult to move on because of close working relationships and comfort. I think our team have been through all of them. For the forming part, we have 1hr and half to introduce ourself to other team member in the class.