Personal Narrative: My Initial Interaction With An Authoritative Figure

The following practices were disastrous, some of the team did not even bother to show up. Coach quickly got fed up with the no show teammates. When we would scrimmage with the other teams we would always lose. This led to team arguments and lack of teamwork. Coach finally said that he had had enough with the team and stated he had coached our team voluntarily. That day

As Christmas break approached, the team faced what was going to be our biggest challenge of all. Due to his new job, our coach now took the title of “assistant” and we were given a new head coach. The coaches were, and are, good friends, but have totally different coaching styles. The first was laid back and carefree with a great sense of humor, which made him well liked by everyone he coached. The new coach had a reputation for being arrogant, strict, and having a no-tolerance policy when it comes to joking around. Because of this perspective some girls held of our new coach, many were upset with the change. After we attended a tournament over the break, however, the girls realized that they had been wrong about the coach and he was just what we needed to help us achieve our goal.

There are double standards with the treatment of high school football players by fans, coaches, teachers, parents and school administrators, as they tend to look away if it is a

We arrived at Smalls Field not even ten minutes later. York High’s stadium is not in the best of shape, but it still works for the game of football. Once we got there, the guys started warming up. I went to help Gianni set up the camera in order to film, and the bleachers we were on overlooked our opponent’s practice field. Gianni and I kept careful watch over their practice. It was an absolute mess. The kids were all running around yelling, cursing, and everything else without any order. There wasn't even a coach in sight. They were not setting a good example for the image of their team, or their school. We got the camera set up and went back down to the field. Max, Wil, and Gianni sat around with me and Dani since they were injured and we just talked about the season. Surprisingly enough, most of their memories were good, even if they did have a losing record. A lot of what they said was positive even if they were talking about losses and I couldn't help but smile knowing

Sadly, dealing with unreasonable, loud, obnoxious parents can be the most challenging part of coaching. Many coaches just want to make a difference in young lives instead of having to deal with the extra baggage of a high-strung parent. “If a parent does not like what you are doing as a coach, then there is no reason that parent can’t become a coach. One of the most difficult problems in coaching youth sports is dealing with an irate parent, but this problem can be diminished by holding parent meetings before and during the season.” (Put ‘Em In Coach, 33)

The athlete’s parental interference is causing athletic directors and coaches to be bogged down by complaints via email and phone calls (Athletic business, 2015). The parental

During my five years refereeing youth sports, I have seen many examples of negative behavior. This past September, a parent, whom I have known for a few years, approached me after a basketball game her child's team

"If the team is in a championship game and a star player violates a team sportsmanship rule which requires removal from the game, the rule must be enforced." ("Sportsmanship",3) The Youth Sports Institute says to reinforce sportsmanship behaviors and penalize unsportsmanlike behaviors ("Sportsmanship",3). The coaches should have disciplined Boobie when he was angry and threw his shoulder pads against the wall, instead of ignoring him.

We went from Ballinger, to Llano, and finally to Forsan for our last tournament of the season. When tournament season ended, we all knew what was next. We got to fight for our position in the state playoffs. Our district opener was against San Saba. We started off district one and zero after a twenty to four win over San Saba. The first half of district lasted the next two weeks. We had not lost to a team in district play. The newspaper's sports section had the headline "Miles undeafeated halfway through district play!" We began to think that we had already won district. Our coach; Coach Hoffpauir saw our change of mindset and started to change his attitude towards us, but we were all blind to this. He started to have a shorter fuse on everyone but especially Cody and I. As we got closer to our second game against San Saba, tension was built between our team and coach. We started to argue with each other, and were butting heads with Coach Hoff up until

Question 3: I believe the coach was suspended for trying to kick a assistant coach and child off the team for not having the same beliefs as him. I think it was this reason because he does not have the power to remove assistant coaches from the team a child maybe, but even if they don’t believe in the same things as you u should respect it they have rights just like how he would want someone to respect him because of his rights.

could not speak up for themselves. Last year the band directors hired a new coach and we were all excited to meet him and learn about his plans for our season. On the first day of practice, he seemed a little nervous, but the other leaders and I did not think this was a big deal. Within the first week, however, we began to notice some rude comments and odd behaviors. As we discussed how the everything was going, we all decided to let it ride out for a little longer; maybe it was just the stress of the working in a new place. Our assistant coach came to us and asked if we were also noticing his tardiness to after school practices. We informed her of our concerns

Parents: If you notice your kids aren’t getting any playing you have to ask your kids if he/she likes that playing time, if not you need to have a talk to the coach to see if there is a reason why. Maybe he/she might have mad grades or their attitude at

Sports are very intense. If you have ever played sports you know how annoying that one fan is: they yell, scream, stand up, and over all, are just being rude. Most of the time it's another player's parent. For example, young 3rd grader baller Brooke Cesarek was playing a game for her travel team at the cage (a basketball gym). Brooke is a strong player; however, she was having an off day. During the game some of the things which Brooke didn't do well at were missing layups, not hustling, and not getting back on defense. Although Brooke was struggling with these things, she was still passing well, getting fast breaks, and rebounding well. Brooke's dad was the head coach, but he was not at the game. After the game finished, Brooke's team sadly

We had our warmups on the ice which woke most of the players on my team up and then the game started. Since I wasn’t playing this game I ran the penalty box which just meant that I opened the door to the penalty box every time someone on my team got a penalty. The other team scored a goal in the first period so at the end of the first it was 1-0 we were losing. The second period had lots of action, our team got two penalties and the other team got one. They scored another goal on us but then we struck back with two. The goals were scored by Trayce and Gordy, who was the assistant coach's son. Going into the third period we were all awake now and our coach was ready to

On Tuesday May 9 I reported to the weight room after my duty during second lunch. Upon entering the weight room I told the student athletes to get dressed for weight lifting. I checked the training room and was informed by the trainer that some of the athletes would be rehabbing their injuries during 4th period. I also checked with Coach Crutchfield who was in the process of meeting with two college recruiters. When the athletes began lifting I noticed that two of them were not dressed and participating. I told one of the athletes to go and bring the student athletes to me. I asked them why they were not Mr. Smothers and the other athletes told me that they didn’t have shorts so I told them to go into the locker-room and wear their tugs (practice