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Personal Narrative: A Career As A Football Coach

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My mind was set to pursue a career in coaching after my undergrad. Leading into my first year as college football coach, I relied mainly on my personal and prior experience during college as a football player. I wanted to provide the players with support and guidance I did not experience having as a player. During my first year as an assistant coach, I managed to influence some players following my main objective in my first year as a coach. Going into my second year, I was promoted with my own position group, running backs (RB), to coach without having to shadow another position coach as an assistant. I was excited, passionate, and overwhelmingly ready to guide this group of young men into a spiritual, motivational direction using my personal experience and my prior knowledge of football to support my coaching goals and objectives. …show more content…

For guidance and support, I visited and met a few upper division college coaches that invited me to learn a bit more about the structure within the position meetings and their coaching styles. In my first year coaching the RB’s I managed to utilize all the information I learned into my position. The problem was I had some well experience senior RB’s capable of playing with the ability to apply my information without any hesitation. In my third year with the loss of the seniors RB’s, I pondered with the question: how will I be able to guide these young returns RB’s with the information I have gathered without losing them in my coaching instruction? This question was surprisingly answered in this spring term, 2016 in this ED626 Instructional Design course. As a young college coach with early exposure to the coaching profession, overloaded with personal, prior, and colleague ways of coaching, I found myself struggling to structure all this information into my own instruction

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