Love Of Sports : My Love For My Life

Sports management is a really broad field, therefore I decided to focus on my minor and one of my major interests of this field: coaching. In this paper I will be explaining my personal five building blocks that make up a well-rounded coaching philosophy and coach. Those blocks are; leadership, organization, attitude, respect, and resiliency. Each of these five aspects are equally important and balance each other out. Leadership, the action of leading a group of athletes towards a goal. Organization, being able to organize a team and have a plan in order to help the team achieve goals. Attitude, it is very important for a coach to have a winning and positive attitude that is contagious to the players. Respect, there has to be a good

Sports always make me happy and they have made me a better person. I love playing, watching, and listening to sports. I play basketball during the fall and winter; I play softball during the spring and summer. I am a forward and guard in basketball and I play every position in softball. We won all of our softball games and

Sports have been a huge part of my life ever since I was about five years old. It has impacted my life so much. The biggest challenge that I faced was with my injuries during basketball and soccer season. I recently had to quit soccer and basketball, which was difficult for me.

Many aspects of managing and coaching are passed down and habit forming; changing the status quo within a team is very difficult and typically disregarded in favor of continuing with what is mostly working. The educational portion of this action plan is essential for several reasons: 1. It does not point fingers and blame specific people for actions and instead promotes an overall understanding that the program as a whole must change. 2. With coaches and management gaining the knowledge and techniques on the subjects of burnout and overtraining before athletes, it reinforces their expertise and holds them accountable for the education and implementation for the action plan as a whole. 3. It seeks to further the education of those in management in coaching to better their technique and be at the forefront of pertinent information essential to coaching and

I have always loved sports ever since I was a little kid. Some of my earliest memories are of playing soccer with my friends on a wet, cold spring day or hitting a ball off of a tee and feeling like it went a mile, when in reality it only went about fifty feet. Even to this day I still can never get enough of sports. I get about four weeks off out of the entire year where I’m not technically in a sport, but I’m still always practicing and trying to get better because that’s the only way I know. I love everything about sports: the friendships, the competition, the passion, the atmosphere, the unity. Sports are one of my true loves and they consume my life. It is this strong desire that I have for sports that has driven me to want to pursue a

Research proved that athletes found their coaches training as well as instruction behavior and their style of coaching did have an impact on individual performance. This was important research for me in understanding how those I coach perceive my leadership and whether or not I am effective as their leader. My teams’ outstanding performance or lack of performance can be a direct link to my type of leadership skills in addition to my training. The primary role of any coach or athletic leader is to help their athletes and improve on their individual performance. “Several sport studies exploring the coach-athlete relationship claim that effective coaching includes basic ingredients such as empathic understanding, honesty, support, liking, acceptance, friendliness, cooperation, caring and respect” (Moen, Hoigaard, & Peters, 2014, p. 76). The challenge for me is finding the balance between being supportive and meeting the individual needs of team members while also enhancing their ability and understanding of the sport. Understanding how to lead and coach various personalities within the team is essential to the team’s

Sports are my life and I don’t think I could live without them. I was discouraged for Liam when he struck out in the Little League World Series and his team lost. I can remember that one time we were at a basketball tournament in another town and we were down by 2 with about 5 minutes left to play and I felt the two free throws that I missed was the reason we

Playing sports was the highlight of my childhood (BE12). My friends and I played pretty much every sport there was to play. All the seasons flowed together. The day after football was over, we were all shooting hoops and playing basketball. As we all grew up, some of us are still busy with sports in every season of the year. Others of us chose to stick with one or two sports. Football and basketball, until this year, were the two sports that I chose to stick with (SC11). However, these two sports are very different from one another.

Sports is my way of challenging my body and myself. There is great joy being on a team oriented sport and a more individual sport track. Playing a mix of sports expands my skill set and keeps things interesting.

Sports have always been a necessary component in my life due to all the lessons they have taught me over the

I have critically reviewed both coaches’ A and B comparing them to each other. I will use Gibbs (1988) model to help me reflective critically on the coaching shadowing I had to undertake as part of my Sport Studies degree with the University of Hertfordshire during semester A. The reflection is for both experiences with Coach A and B.

Sports have always been a big part of my life and I will always have the memories of growing up playing, watching, and listening to all types of different games. Some of the greatest times I have had are the countless hours I spent playing NCAA Football and NCAA March Madness on the Play Station 2 with my brothers, often times late into the night. Playing those games, I felt like I was actually a part of a team battling it out against my brother and his team. I looked up and idolized those players that were on the screen. I watched and re-watched their jump shots and touchdown throws, their spin moves and stiff arms, their slam dunks, and touchdown dances.

My role as a coach is to connect with, engage, excite, and empower athletes, regardless of their athletic ability, and I try to embody this in my teaching. Through past experiences teaching diverse students in Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta in Canada, I have developed teaching methods that start with

Taking the time to reflect on why it is someone coaches is beneficial for personal growth, and for creating an awareness of one’s changes in motivation, which affects behavior. Therefore, changes in motivation can be reflected in someone’s behavior and his or her well-being. Those who feel that they are coaching because they want to, will be successful, and feel that coaching allows them to acquire relationships with their players, and display more motivation for coaching. Being aware of why someone coaches their sport is an important part of reflective practice. One person’s

As a textbook, students who are entirely new to the world of coaching can benefit from this textbook if used in conjunction with a course that depends on