Personal Statement On Team Rules

Now that I am on an Elite basketball team, I really have grown and learned to push myself more and more everyday. I really value leadership and teamwork, which basketball has taught me. Once I am out of C.W. Perry I am hoping to make a high school basketball team, and maybe even a College or University basketball team. I know that in order to accomplish my goals I will need to work hard and have lots of dedication. In the end goals are just dreams with deadlines.

My interest in sports management is an ongoing process. Throughout my entire life I have been part of several sports related opportunities, and my love for the game of soccer has only grown over the years. In a perfect scenario my plan would be to be an Athletic Director, Higher Education not only because there is a very broad field in that area but also because according to "Sports management degree" there is a 15% projected to grow from now to 2022, and the salary is at an average of $99,585. Not only will this area guide me to a secure future but I will also be able to form and shape the upcoming youth. The job of a direct is to guide you into learning about discipline, sportsmanship skills, and respect for the sport.

After consulting with my team members and hearing their thoughts, I gained a lot of insight as to how my performance as a team leader was. I asked them to give me their thoughts on my first week of being a team leader and then I asked them again in regards to my second week of being a team leader. The changes they told me about were quite surprising. For starters, my team told me that my first leadership week wasn’t too great. They said I was not vocal or authoritative enough so they didn’t really know what they were supposed to be doing while we were out of class. Also, during my week we were doing the video assignment and they said that during the meeting which we were recording, I was too quiet and wasn’t leading the discussion like a leader should. Overall, they said I did not act or communicate like a leader during my first week. Now, following my second week as team leader, there were some major changes in the group’s feedback. During this week we started working the T6 assignment, and this time the group told me they had a much clearer idea of what their roles were as I assigned everyone a task. For example, Lisa and Kerine were assigned to revise the T2 and T4 assignments and they felt much better about knowing what it was they had to do. In sum, after my second week as a team leader my team members responded saying I was much better with communication and actually leading them.

One day I hope to get the opportunity to work for the National College Athletic Association. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an association made up of 1,261 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals devoted to the administration of intercollegiate athletics (NCAA.org). The purpose of the National College Athletic Association is to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an essential part of the educational program and the athlete as an essential part of the student population. The association’s purpose is to help student athletes maintain a proper balance in life. They enforce the concept of athletes putting school before anything else. Specifically within the NCAA organization, I hope to become an

To be a college coach you have to be very dedicated and love the sport you are coaching. Being a college coach is very time consuming and a very hard job to land in the sports world. The competition that one faces when trying to get into the job field is fierce. This means that the job as a coach in the collegiate athletic career field is limited to a small percentage of the people that end up applying. These people need to be able to fulfill a variety of duties for their universities, and because of this it is important that anyone who is thinking of applying knows the difficulty that comes with the job (Greenwald, 2010).

Recruiting laws in the NCAA are very particular. Every program follows the same set of rules, however the rules vary slightly from sport to sport. First of all, besides monitoring what the coach offers an athlete, the NCAA monitors the amount/content of contact with athletes. Contacts with athletes are monitored by the NCAA heavily. A contact by definition is when a coach has any face to face contact with an athlete or an athlete’s parents on or off a college’s campus and says more than hello. A contact also occurs if a coach has any contact with an athlete or an athlete’s parents at that athlete’s high school or anywhere the athlete is practicing or competing. To give the athlete some space and to organize all contact, the NCAA has a contact period. A contact period is a time period where a college coach may have in-person contact with an athlete and their parents on or off the college's campus. The coach may also watch the athlete play or visit the

I am in Scholastic Scrimmage, which has been one of the most rewarding clubs I have been a part of and I have been captain of Varsity Scholastic Scrimmage during 11th and 12th grades. This year (12th grade) is the first year the team is going to EPC playoffs in over four years.

It is the coaches’ responsibility to teach loyalty, honor, respect, commitment, and work ethic. It is the player’s responsibility to carry these things out and conduct themselves in the appropriate manner. If a player cannot follow the team rules, make the commitment that is expected, or conduct himself properly, then he will be held accountable for his actions.

According to Remillard (2014) academics followed only coaches in importance to the recruit (p. 20). According to an ESPN pole, academics ranked as the most important factor for recruits (Crabtree, 2013). This focus on academics also aligns with the NCAA mission. According to the NCAA website, “the association’s belief in student-athletes as students first is a foundational principle” (“Frequently”, 2015). Although, the NCAA’s claim may be empty, as collegiate coaches, it is important to prioritize academics even if no one else is doing it. It is the responsibility of the athletic director and coaching staff to stress

As a freshman volleyball player, my biggest dream was to get so good at my position that a college would offer me a scholarship to attend college and play for them. Everyone is aware that college is expensive, especially the students who don’t know how exactly they are going to pay for college. That was and is me. I had read about students being signed to different community colleges or universities and sometimes getting a full ride. I wanted so badly to be that student my junior or senior year. If I could play the game I loved and attend college for free or at a discounted price, I was going to be one happy individual.

In the world college basketball, most basketball players come and go. Moreover, these athletes remain in a conundrum. For those unaware, professional sports remains as volatile as a high-risk investment. This remains attributed to the uncertainty pertaining to professional players. With that being said, numerous players get injured and lose their dreams of playing the sport professionally. In spite of all of these risks, several college basketball teams continue to produce desirable talent. Moreover, these athletes would cease to exist without the assistance of a coach. To expound further, college basketball coaches play an integral role in defining an athlete's strength and using these strengths to their advantage. Furthermore, college basketball

I was an incoming freshman, two weeks prior to my first day of high school, and I was terrified. I knew that I loved the sport of football, however I had heard stories from my brother about how tough Stepinac’s freshman football coach was. Everything that I was told was true. One of the coaches great lessons that he taught me was that a hardworking disciplined team is typically more successful than a team that has all of the talent in the world, but is not disciplined and does not work hard. That summer was the hardest that I had ever worked up to that point to start in a football game. The hard work never paid off, and I left at the end of that season defeated. I wasn’t good enough, I wasn’t fast enough, and I wasn’t strong enough. I had only played in two of the games, one, for a snap when

My goal is to one day become a high school football coach in northeast Iowa, but I will have to take certain steps and achieve some things before I will reach my goal. The first step will be finishing off my college career as a successful quarterback for the Upper Iowa football team. This will give me the credibility I need for different high schools to look at me to as a potential coach. I will also need to graduate from college with good grades to show my future employers I’m not just a football player, but also someone who values their studies as well.

Overcoming the fact that one day you will not be able to play your sport is one of the hardest things all athletes must one day go through. It is a fact of the game that one day your eligibility runs out or if you are one of the lucky few who play professionally, your body’s years of health do not last forever. Coaching just to be around the sport and spread the joy that sport gave you for so many years. My coaching philosophy relies extremely heavily on this information. I have always been a person who is passionate about the things I love because I do not believe in not putting your whole heart into something. The most critical component to success in whatever sport you love lies in honoring the game that so many before you loved and excelled at. Excelling and honoring the game means having respect for everyone involved with the sport. Giving respect to your coaches is something I learned from the beginning. Being respectful and having a positive attitude learned at a young age is something completely taken for granted until you have adults who can neither adapt nor be flexible when something does not go their way. Sport is a form of education in that it teaches you similar life lessons that will be useful for far longer than the amount of time that you spend actually playing it.

Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching. Some questions would include: Why did he choose this as a profession? How did he get into coaching? What does one have to do to get a job as a coach? How