Personal Narrative: Mr. Barrington

He is the kind of person that pushes you hard to make you better but knows your limits. During practices, he challenges us because he knows what we are capable of, and he believes in us. He has taught us to always do our best even when we are tired because in the end the reward will be worth it. He has given me so much advice that not only applies to

There is not a single coach out there who cares about his sailors more than Tuck. I have been on many teams in the past, and not one coach dedicates as much time or care into the team as Tuck does. In the three years that he has been our coach so far, we have greatly increased our team building activities off the water, which has ultimately made the team stronger than ever in its overall chemistry, disregarding just our skills and knowledge of the sport. Tuck also knows each of the team members very well individually, which allows him to pick the best team pairings and also teach us based on our individual personalities, goals, and weaknesses. He wants each one of us to succeed more than anyone I know, and is willing to do everything he possibly can in order to help us on our own personal paths to success in sailing, academics, or more. I have no doubt that Tuck knows each of his students just as well in the classroom as he does on our team, allowing him to interact with both his students and us much more easily than other teachers. His ability to unite all of the team members enables our success overall to have reached our current achievements and hopefully even more in the future.

Joe Ehrmann describes how he has developed his philosophy of coaching by relating the story of his life in his youth, high school and in college describing two different types of coaches he had played for. The first are coaches who were impersonal, authoritarian, and sometimes abusive which he calls transactional coaches; this is in contrast to the humane coaches he calls transformative coaches. Coaches must face this responsibility because we all remember our coaches. “This is the awesome power and responsibility of coaching: You give your players memories, for better or for worse that stay with them until the day they die” (Ehrmann, 2011 p 46-47). Joe Erhmann goes on to ask, “What is the moral and ethical composition of their program?

One of the nice side benefits of being involved in running and coaching is the contact list of people that you develop over time. On my list happens to be a coach at Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut by the name of Jeff Billing, who just so happens to be Amby’s (“favorite”) nephew.

I want to thank you all for your support of Booster Club Coaches Apperciation Dinner. Apart from my service to the BC, I also serve the program as a chaplain. One of the most important aspects of my job is to be sensitive to all aspects of our coaches lives. The first being the aspect of their home life. As a former college/pro-football player, I have personally witnessed the tremendous sacrifice and strain that the season places on coach’s marriages and families. I have watch coaches leave the game they love, in hope of saving their love ones (marriages and families).

It was a great overall learning experience to listen to a great coach and athletic director Joe Sanchez. He brings experience and perfection to every district that he teaches in the mission area, from how he tends to carry himself as a athletic director. First of all I like that he explains to us how you persisted have to be in order to have a great coaching plan. He also stated that each one of us should have our own philosophy on how we should teach, because having a philosophy is a foundation to your coaching style and is a blue print of what you follow. He was so kind to hand us his philosophy that he goes by and it gives us a lot of feedback on what we can add to our philosophy. In addition to that, he also said that it is very important

When I went to Pike High School I participated in an activity called color guard for four years. Color guard is a performing arts activity that incorporates dance while using flags, rifles, and sabers. When I began this activity I barely understood what I was getting myself into. Our team got abandoned by our coach for most of the winter season my freshman year, so our show was pretty awful. We went to competitions with expectations of losing and embarrassment among our peers. At this point everyone was discouraged about how our winter season ended. It was not far to the seniors who gave their whole high school years for this activity. Something had to be changed to in order for our team to progress in the future. Second semester our guard Director, Mr. Emmert, hired Nick Bledsoe as our new coach. Though he was a skinny short white guy with blond hair something about him was intimidating. He walked into the guard room like he owned the place. He sat up with such a great posture that I straightened up from my usual slouch. The seniors did not like Nick too much, but their only wish for him was to not give up on us. From that day forward Nick dedicated his work towards our team regardless of how challenging it was to manage. My guard coach Nick was amazing because of how passionate he was about his profession at my high school.

My mother’s last conversation with Richard Hart was on October 28, 2015. He was asking her where my volleyball game was and if he could come to cheer me on, as he did every week. Three few weeks ago I glanced into the stands at a game and saw him. Mr. Hart was there sitting three rows from the top. My heart surged with pride and love for my old fifth grade teacher. Focused on the game, he never noticed me smile and wave to him. Opening the gym doors, he left during the second half to pick up his 9 year daughter from soccer practice before I was able to thank him. That was the last time I saw Richard

This man was a World War 2 vet at the age of 91 he has dedicated over 10,000 hours to community service and dedicate his time and his money to those less fortunate than himself and has donated money to local Boston hospitals and hospitals of the surrounding Boston area. And because all of these Celtics fans stood up to honor this heroic, brave man that touched me a lot that there are people in this world that dedicate their lives to helping others and are so selfless that they put others before

Being an understanding person is what Chetta is known for. Being understanding helps him build relationships. Not just with strangers, but with his players. Building a healthy relationship with your players is key to coaching. It helps encourage them to do better, and relieves heavy amounts of stress off of them. Being understanding helps players know that he is available to help at anytime; on and off the field. He was a father figure to all of us. Making sure we are on top of our schoolwork. We were not allowed to make below a B. If that were to happen, he would suspend us until it is brought up. He always wanted the best for everyone. His characteristics made him successful. Having everything a person looks for in a person, helped him win coach of the

The sycophant named Tyler was extremely annoying today in class. He kept on doing favors for Mr. Schuit, our history teacher. Mr. Schuit is a chauvinist, always talking about how men are superior to women. He kept on discussing how the wealth gap amongst male and females is fair. Anyways, today he asked Tyler to go buy him some things from the grocery store. I was surprised Tyler did it knowing of his agoraphobia. The bell finally rang to go to fourth period, and I found myself meandering, taking my time to go to my next class, statistics. My statistics teacher, Ms. B, is a virago. I saw some details I didn’t want to see through her diaphanous dress. Ms. B always yells at us when we don’t understand the math problem. She always teaches it

Coach Shepherd is a big influence in my life. Without him I would not of met as many people as I know today. I also would not have as much stamina as I do. He also taught me the values of hard work and family. Coach Shepherd is like a father to me, but a father I never had. He was also a religious individual so we used to pray before soccer games and whenever , and we would go to Quiktrip or we went to a McDonalds.

I am thankful for that coach, because that coach taught me how to prove people wrong and work hard for

With the right influence, communication and skill development is the key to a valuable coach. Without my two outstanding high school coaches, I wouldn’t have the love for basketball and track the way I do today. They have taught me everything I needed to know for the present, along with tips for the future. Coach Lewis and Coach Kohler have done more for me than what I’ve ever deserved and I will never be able to pay them back for all their help and encouragement. But I hope they have understanding of how much of a change they can make on someone's life, someone's life like my

How many youth and high school coaches serve as a father figure to their players? How many mothers look to the coaches of their son’s football team as the last best hope to show their son what it means to become a man – a real man? More than we’ll ever know. Coaches teach us boys the lessons of life that very often they learn from no one else. Coaches have the kind of influence in our schools,