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    It goes without saying that coaches and many of their student-athletes are highly competitive individuals. I know from my time as a student-athlete, along with eleven years as a coach, that on game days I was a little bit edgy, tunnel-visioned, and ready to compete. Competition, after all, is what makes sports exciting; it keeps the games fun for the players & coaches and exhilarating for the fans. However, there is a balancing act that all coaches and athletes face between having a ferocious will

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    Knowing what exactly makes a coach successful is an important question that all sporting clubs need to ask. The answer however is not an easy one. Many different qualities are needed in order for a coach to become successful. This issue affects all teams from a social level right through to the elite professional teams. In order for a coach to become successful they first need to communicate with their players as to what their needs are. But, how do we define success for a coach? Is it all about winning

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    Discourse Community Analysis: Northwest Varsity Basketball Team It is the first round of the Basketball State playoffs, and with eight seconds left, the talented Northwest team is down by three. The star point guard speed dribbles up the court, the tension on and off the court is immense, the pressure is even greater. Everyone during and prior to this game, had witnessed a season full of promise, and the consensus conclusion for most recognized this team as the best team to have ever come out Northwest

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    respectful athletes (Positive). Children need these positive role models in their lives because kids are easily influenced, and good influencers are key. Even if a child great parents as role models, it is even better to have one outside of the family. A coach can serve as someone that

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    people so into it. Sports can tell a story, and teach great life lessons as well as inspire people. If sports are that important to the people around the world who watch it, just think about how important sports are to the ones who actually play it and coach it. It is their passion, their persona, their life. With the media’s harsh expectations of teams today, unless a team wins a championship, they are deemed unsuccessful. Since expectations are so high,

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    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

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    African-American man who suffers from severe mental retardness and his journey to fame from football in the small South Carolinian town of Anderson. James “Radio” Kennedy is befriended by the T. L. Hanna High School head football coach, Coach Jones, and begins to help as an “assistant coach” of some sort. Eventually, James begins to attend Hanna High as an eleventh grade student due to the persistent efforts of Coach Jones. The movie opens up as James, at this point nameless and unspoken, is walking

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    an integrated football team who helped influence their town to “trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him” says Coach Yoast. The people in Alexandria, Virginia were angry that an African American was taken on to be the Head Hoach. Many of the white players wanted to quit the team and petition to get Coach Boone out, so that Coach Yoast could get his job back. Their plan did not work, however, Boone wanted to keep Yoast as a part of the team, but only as an assistant. Coach Yoast accepted

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    From a young age I have had a passion for sports. Not just a single sport but all sports. The understanding of the sport either it be soccer, baseball, football, or rugby came easy to me and I was always thought of an important player of the team from my coaches. I love being on the team yet still performing individually. Late in my teens another passion developed and it too came easy for me. This passion would be the performing on stage; Acting. The beautiful art of Acting has recently impacted

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    Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches      Throughout my high school basketball career I experienced several different coaches. Every new coach brought a different approach to coaching. The varying techniques of coaching brought about different attitudes and expectations during practices and games. I found that during practice, coaches had either the nice-guy or the drill sergeant approach. They also had different methods of coaching during and after the games

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