Personal Narrative: My 3rd Grade Basketball Coach

Throughout my high school career, I have been involved in various clubs and organizations to help me become a leader in my community. At Auburn High School I took on the role of being a Publicist officer for National Technical Honors Society the first two consecutive years that it became a part of our school. I gained a lot of leadership experience through this club. Implementing a new organization is never easy and takes a lot of hard work and dedication from the leaders of the club. By being a part of a very helpful, dedicated and motivated team, we helped affiliate all the eligible members into the club and in turn helped introduce this new club to the school. As publicist my role in helping the club grow was crucial; I helped in publicizing the clubs various projects and involvement.

It all started when i was in fourth grade. It all changed what inspired me came by whole big dream that i wanted to be successful at. I was at school just a normal day, and it was times to go to PE, and my coach got out a circular ball that i had never seen in my life. It was kinda colorful, it had some weird word written on it, but i couldn't see from where i was standing. My coach handed us each one of these balls, and coach called them volleyballs. My coach told us what to do and what not to do, so i was at this net, and just gave the ball a high five because that's what he said to do. Coach came over to me, and kinda directed me through and told me it was called a serve. That day i went home thinking about it, and i decided i want to do

Throughout my high school, I have been able to not only be led but also being a leader myself. I have been a part of high schools drill team for three years and of course every year I have had a group of leaders that help us throughout the year with our personal goals and struggles. This was my one of my first experiences with having a leader and it truly became what inspired me to become a leader myself. I joined the Latino Student Union my junior year and became the secretary/representative officer my senior year. Within these involvements, I have learned what it takes to be the best leader you can be and which ones I value the most.

The person that had the biggest impact on turning me into who i am today was my middle school coach.

Yeah, Mr. Jack you’re right I’m late, not only by 5 minutes but 6 minutes. As you can see I’m sweating bullets since I just ran here. I was in the gym with Coach Travis, I was shooting on the gun taking it all in, the sparkling of the hardwood floor, the brightness of the lights, and the sound of the gun shooting the ball back to me. I was just doing my thing when all of a sudden I heard Coach Travis say something, “I would sauce you” are the exact words he said. As we all know Coach Travis is pretty good and it would be tough game, but I wasn’t going to just play it off like I didn’t hear it. I said Coach “You may be able to sauce with your Steph Curry handles, but I’ll drain threes in your eye.” I guess I really didn’t know what I was getting

My basketball team and I were going head to head against Lamar Bruni Middle School for the second time that season. The parents loved to cheer us on and capture so many pictures of us, they were our cheerleaders all season long. We were 5-0 at the time and losing that game was not an option for any of my teammates nor the coaches. Unfortunately, I was not able to give it my all in that game due to me twisting my ankle in the third quarter.

Leadership was a word I was not familiar with when I started playing high school softball as a freshman. As the season started I wasn’t even aware that I had a role until the assistant coach said every player has a specific role that will impact the whole team as it progresses. This opened up my mind and made me realize that although I was just a young player who still needs experience in high school games. I was still being relied on by my teammates and coaches on my specific job on the field and the classroom. Although I was frightened with the role I had, I was supported by my family

My basketball team had just finished traveling Connecticut winning game after game to end up finally making it to the state championships, coming in second place by a small margin. I was energized and felt insurmountable. This attitude quickly changed however, as a result of undertaking a new sport in the fall season of my freshman year: cross country.

My coach once told me “take a challenge, take a risk because in order to improve you’ve gotta mess up in the process”. He told me to be able to be confident and that I can and will succeed. This gave me the boost of self confidence I needed on and off the court.

A person that I could not stand, was my high school coach Ms. Burns, she had an awful personality, was unfair, and condescending. One reason why she had an awful personality was because she was arrogant and stuck up. When I would raise my hand in class or call out her name she would ignore me and act like I wasn’t there. Every time I would smile at her, she would look at me with a mean face instead, and if she did respond back to me she would talk to me in a rude way. Another reason why she was unbearable, is because she was unfair and careless, In class she would have everyone do pushups and planks, those were exercises I could not do because of an accident I had which broke my back and my elbow, every time I’d do the exercises my elbow would

It was a typical day in the McClain household. Everybody was woken up at exactly 7.00 am. Mom said the prayer and then everybody went to school. Little did they know, a massacre was going to occur that night.

From the earliest exposure to algebra and basic equations, students are taught that subtracting something from only one side of the equation unbalances it, until one adds an equivalent expression to that side. I never realized that this could have an application outside of purchasing large quantities of fruit until my basketball career came crashing down. My coach told me before my sophomore season, “Zack, you will be in the rotation.” I later learned that he meant the water boy rotation until one game, where I experienced the thrill of playing for twenty four seconds. For twelve years I equated winter with basketball, but with my realization that my time as a basketball player was over, I suddenly had an equation where winter equaled zero.

Have you ever had someone tell you that you were not good enough or that you will not accomplish anything in life? Well hearing those things can be the hardest to hear; especially when they come from your high school football coach. My coach was someone who was not respected by much of the team due to his attitude, personality, and coaching method. He was someone that I would not talk to often because it usually ended with him telling me that I suck or that I will be working at McDonalds my whole life because I will not go far. From these words that he said to me I was affected both positively and negatively. From the words that he said to me, I was able to learn that I could not let other people’s negative attitudes affect

In my career I plan on taking my talents into being a coach. Sports coaches help people participate in sports to work towards achieving their full potential. They work with them closely to improve performance. Whatever the context, coaching involves developing the participant’s physical and psychological fitness and providing the best possible practical conditions in order to maximize their performance. Coaches must also be aware of their ethical and legal obligations to their clients. Many coaches combine coaching with others, often full-time jobs, many sports coaches work part-time and unpaid, offering their coaching services on a purely voluntary

Although I coach and train in my current position as a Human Resource Manager, the majority of my coaching and training experience occurred while I was a food Divisional manager (1997 through 2001) and Store Sales Director (2001 through 2010). As a Divisional manager I would coach, teach and train a diverse group of associates at all levels within the food Division (this includes all employees that work in grocery, meat, seafood, produce, bakery, service deli, natural foods and health and beauty aids). Whether a newly hired employee or a veteran employee, I was responsible for identifying training needs and implementing training solutions to achieve continual improvement of my team.