Personal Narrative: The Coach Who Changed My Life

When a passion dies, it is the most heartbreaking thing there is. A coach who has killed my passion has their favorites, makes me feel worthless, and only cares about the girls who she thinks are the best. No matter how hard I worked in practice, it would never be good enough for them.

Did you know that 2 years ago I played in my school championship game ? We were at Chichester high school . We came out as nervous team shaking legs were non-stop on the bench the starters were even scared. We have not even started Kick return and the team was sweating I got to be honest my self I was scared myself ! I wasn't that scared though only thing i was worried about was Coach Ryan and his son Ishaad Maultsby. They came out all excited and they were coming out so flashy, Ishaad was treated like Cam Newton at the super bowl game !

If i had this job would try to get in the best shape, and learn as

Winning our first softball tournament was one of my favorite memories. My coach was a huge factor in our success, and I loved all of my teammates. One of my good friends smashed her first home run that weekend, which made it even more exciting. It was our last tournament of the season, and I am delighted that it ended in our first win.

I found a group of passionate, like-minded individuals and founded an Esports club. All of us had a strong sense of competitive spirit and a thirst to prove ourselves. We had no precedent, no knowledge or mentor. We derived a structure, incorporating roles and responsibilities similar to traditional sports.

Although I received unsatisfactory results from both questionnaires for coaching, I specifically chose to develop this skill because I want to tackle my fear of disappointing others. Being the child from an immigrant family, I have struggled with an internal battle between my desires and the expectations of others, in regards to my academics and career. With every accomplishment that I made, I was placed on a higher pedestal and grew a fear of its height. Consequently, I have sacrificed many opportunities to aid others achieve their own success because of the overpowering expectations that I would have to assume. For instance, during group projects, my peers would approach me in hopes to receive help on improving their portion of the presentation and I would often give them unspecific advice that would not cater to their learning abilities. After completing these questionnaires, I have realized how much of my conscious and unconscious attention is focused on satisfying other people. This overwhelming sentiment that has grown inside of me has sabotaged my chances of achieving the greatness that I was born to do.

I had played football since 3rd grade and it had become one of my favorite sports. I was like most 6th graders hoping to play for Oregon or some big school. I would spend days outside playing pass and trying to imitate Odell Beckham or Antonio Brown. But when I was on my 2nd season of little guy football I faced a challenge of apologizing to my coach.

I like to think as a soccer coach I have lead those children to understand that sports are to be fun and are good healthy activiiety. I recived many compliments from parents about my coaching. Seeing the results is great as children don’t give up on sport or activities even if it is no longer soccer. This goal for me has come true many times. My hope is that those kids keep that attitude as they get older and keep moving towards a goal.

Sports have been what my life revolves around for as long as I can remember. I spent all my younger years watching my siblings play different sports in different cities. Our family vacations were wherever my brother and sisters had tournaments. It’s the bond that unites us and gives us a sense of identity. I don’t know who we would be if we weren’t supporting each other at games or having family gatherings to watch some big game.

It all started this summer in the gym when I decided volleyball was the sport I loved. Once I realized how much I loved volleyball it made me want to work extremely hard. Working in the off-season was the most important thing to do if I wanted a chance to be the best I could be. Even though I wanted to sleep in every day during summer vacation, I knew that I was going to have to sacrifice a few days out of my week to practice. Every practice or open gym, I could see myself growing as a player. During the winter I joined a club volleyball team. We practiced one time a week and had a tournament every few weekends. Club volleyball was a huge part of what got me to be the player I am. It helped me with not only just playing volleyball, but it got me to understand the game. One thing I loved about club volleyball was that I didn’t know one person on the team. That got me to make new friends and learn to play with people that I'm not comfortable with.

At the conclusion of my junior year of high school, I immediately began preparations for my final cross country season. By that point in my life, the only time I actually thought about baseball was when the New York Yankees were playing on television. Otherwise, I spent every day that summer either out running or thinking about running. I also spent a lot of time researching and reading about the history of running, different training methods, and ideas put forth by other coaches from around the world. During that summer, if someone had asked me what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, the answer would've been simple. I wanted to coach.

The changes I am going to do this year is keep grinding, no matter what and put in work this year. A change I really wanna do is not talk so much and get away from friends that are not doing good things and stick with friends that are in the same path as me. Another change is paying, more attention in class and when I need help go after school and get it. The one I really want to change is not to be so mean to people and just be helpful to other. Not to get mad, I so easy. I have to control my anger. The other new change is not to be so lazy and start doing what i gotta do and stop overthinking stuff. I also want to the way I play football because I want to play better and just be the best player out there. How am I going to do this, i’m going

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.

In my life, I find it easy to pick a person who I feel, I can look up to and really confide in. For the case of this essay, I really dug deep and was looking for someone who I really can talk a lot about why I look up to and admire them. After much thought and consideration, I realised someone who I looked up to, was not part of my family. They are one of my many ColorGuard Couches. All of the couches in this program are amazing, but one coach who really sticks out to me is our Head Coach Emma Osle. Even though this is my first year in her guard, I have really seen and experienced many way she is helping us and being a good role model. Emmas Ability juggle school, work, and running the guard, her ability to motivate us even at our worst,

I first started playing volleyball at a very young age. I was in the seventh grade when my volleyball career started. My sister started playing in the seventh grade and I just wanted to follow her footsteps. My seventh grade year was ok because I had just started out and really didn’t know the game. There was A team and a B team, where A team was better than the B team. I tried my best to be on the A-team, but guess where I ended up, on the B team.