Marist College Water Polo Team Case Study

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I play for the Marist College water polo team. I practice five days a week, for about four hours a day (6:45 am to 11:00 am). We are a spring sport and dedicate the entire fall semester to getting ready for spring season. We even cut our winter break down two weeks shorter to get in extra practice. Winter break practice is a lot harder because there are no rules and regulations on the amount of time we are allowed to practice. If the coaches so please, they can keep us in the water the entire time without a break. Now a coach would never do that because they would not be receiving maximum efficiency from us. We would be too exhausted but the point was that there are no rules for them. Our practices start off with a morning lift in …show more content…

For instance, if Stacy was not performing well she would have to be told by another player to change something up to fix what she is doing wrong this will help with team innovation because Stacy will not be the only one told that she needs to fix something. Going off research about the team halo effect, we live in an individualistic society so the team halo effect plays a huge role in how teams measure success and failure. This makes it easier to explain why Marist has lost three years in a row to Wagner. Studies have shown that in a more collectivist society the team halo effect decreases or disappears. For the whole team to be blamed for the failure, there needed to be a team effort instead of having it be an individualistic game. If the team were playing together there would not be a single person to blame for it and the whole team would take the responsibility of the loss. Having the team play together as a collective unit will also increase the teams chases of winning. A way to incorporate the team is to inform the team on how the halo effect works hoping that after explaining it they would rather play as a unit and accept the failure together instead of blaming it on a

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