Personal Narrative: A Career As A Football Player

When I think of coaching I think of practice planning, game planning, scouting strategizing of offense and defense, choosing my starters, little things like that. All of those ideas are valid, but that’s not the whole picture. There is a lot more to coaching than planning for a practice or a game. Many times a person who would like to coach an interschool athletic team has little or no preparation to teach sports skills and techniques. The only qualifications is often the person’s participation on his or her high school, college, or university’s team, coach of a community youth team or even perhaps as a professional player. While all that experience is valuable in one way or another, it does not constitute an adequate preparation for

When coaching I have to not only make sure they are having fun and working skills needed, but having fun and making sure I address an injury properly if necessary. The size of the school is increasing, so I have to make sure that I include all of the students and faculty, and have an open mind for possibilities. Being an officer in many things and participating in extracurricular activities, I have to make sure my grades stay up and I do not forget to do anything. I now know the things that are allowed and not allowed to wear during an interview or presentation for future knowledge. I have the experience and skills of how to take care of little kids and an idea of what to do when things go wrong and how to avoid them from

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

Coaches need to be able to convey passion to their players, to inspire them to get the most out of their performance. A successful coach will possess a positive attitude and enthusiasm for the game

My main objective of being a coach is for the player development. I want to help take these players under my wing with my own knowledge, and to develop them into fundamentally strong players. My second objective is to win. This may not happen right away, but if you can develop a strong fundamental base into these kids, than I believe

My coaching philosophy is centered on development, education, hard work, advancement, and a team first mentality. It is extremely important to me to help those around me develop physically, physiologically and socially. I know the value and excitement an education brings. Challenging athletes to do their best and giving them realistic goals will help them develop their skills. I love to say do everything you can to do the best you can. And by this I simply mean strive to give everything you have to what you are doing, while not putting yourself in harms way by over doing it. The team development as a whole is essential. We must help each other succeed and in doing so help the team succeed. Be courteous to your fellow athletes and an example

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

Around this time, my mom met this guy that lived in Royal Center. While having financial issues at home, he said we can move into his house with him. It was a really nice house and I really liked my mothers boyfriend. At this time, I was a freshmen in highschool and started attending Pioneer. This is when my life started picking up in sports and academics. My Freshmen year in highschool weren’t too special. I thought there were no consequences in my actions of goofing off in class and not attending practices for football and track. I was what you would call the “class clown”. When I was in the classroom, I didn’t think, and eventually that would come back around and effect me in a terrible way. Sports was my love through high school. During freshmen year, I was doing football and track. Football season is when I loved to be outside. Every practice was a blessing, and all that work paid off when I started my first varsity game in the third week of

Perfecting your technique allows you to combine simple disciplines and eventually develop advanced skills that, given practice, you'll perform perfectly every time in a game situation. So what are some of the areas that a good coach can help you with? Ball Control: working on your first touch, cushioning an aerial ball and soccer dribbling skills are some of the aspects of ball control that you should work on. Passing: short passes, long passes and those in between.

Since I have been enrolled in graduate school and taking classes on how to become a better coach. The first step a coach should take to prepare themselves is developing a coaching philosophy. A coaching philosophy will help put ideas and thoughts

Finding a worthy coach is almost as challenging as having the qualities of a pleasant coach. There are numerous essentials necessary to have these attributes. Many people believe that a coach is simply an “athletic trainer or instructor,” as this is the dictionary definition. However, that is false. Although people typically think otherwise, these underrated coaches do more than instruct athletes. A worthy coach cares about the morale of the team over winning and losing. Coaches should be an inspiration to youth. They should motivate teens to keep trying, and teach them never to quit. The best coaches often encourage the team to want to win, rather than pressure them to feel that they must win.

You have to try your best and never give up. You need to play to the whistle. Your coaches are going to be hard on you and you’ve got to work with it. During games you will face challenges and the only way to defeat that challenge is to be tough and never give up. You are going to be pushed and you're going to want to stop, but you can’t stop just because something little gets in your way.

“Yes mom!” exclaimed John. It was the first day of school at George Carter High School. John had gotten in a bad routine of staying up late and not waking up until noon over the summer break.

There are many characteristics that a coach needs to possess. The very best coaches get their athletes to believe in themselves. A player will not be able to succeed if they do not have confidence. The best are able to motivate players to do things they never thought they could. Coaches try to make students to stretch the limits of their beliefs. Pushing people to their limits is a must. Talent is something that is not earned but players earn their skill by putting in effort. With effort and practice comes winning and winning keeps moral high.

In chapter 9 it talks about how you approach the game. It first talks about the different skills that one might run into. Technical skills, tactical skills, and defining skills each one brings its own concept and importance to one's philosophy as well. I feel that a tactical skill is the most important because you have to strategies against the opposing team. Some key points that stood out in what might use in tactical skills, things that you have to remember if the opponents is left handed, or if the opponent dribble with onee hand so switch the defense to make his job a lot harder using tactical skills helps you gain an advantage over your opponent. In addition the book also talks about traditional approach, which we are told to use that type of teaching style. This type of approach is something that we are taught since we were in elementary. You start off by warming up which can include stretching and moving the body parts, basic technical skills