Personal Experience: My Experience As A Football Coach

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My internship spends as a football coach has really been an eye-opener for me; especially sacrificing at least 15 hours per week of commitment. Being a football coach showed me that you need to be at nearly every practice, rain or shine, sick or healthy, job or no job. The biggest thing as a high school coach and teaching as well estimate between 30-35 hours a week. For college, as a full-time coach, think somewhere between 60-80 hours a week. I chose this lifestyle because I wanted to work in a field which I’ll love to make progression in. Moreover, coaching sports period gives me thrill to help another student-athlete excel at another level. This internship being an assistant football coach was an offer to help out as an unpaid assistant …show more content…

The expectations as a coach are maintaining a role of being professional and things in a proper perspective. This could be developing and communicating clear and specific goals for the team and individual players throughout tryouts and the season. Next, developing and demonstrating a good knowledge base of best practice specific to their coaching arena. Lastly, promoting and enforcing the student athlete code of conduct. Moreover, there are many more rules that we go by but those are a major three to understand and follow the guidelines of them. This internship was giving to me three years ago with nothing, but being an extra hand to help whenever is needed. Although, my endless effort to learn new things and hard-work showed that I was very reliable. My overall purpose to show the kids that there is way more life than being in a small town selling drugs or getting lock-up because you couldn’t follow the rules. This coaching lifestyle was chosen by because I wanted to do something I love, and sports is something that’ll forever have my heart. I chose football though because I wanted to follow the steps of old high school legend, which name is Barry Bowman. Coach Bowman, taught football on a college level so of course, he has sent over 30+ players division one football. Moreover, his biggest strength to him he said was “I believe that one of my greatest strengths is …show more content…

The word coach in a dictionary means a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. This means, being successful requires a knowledge and understanding of the process as well as the variety of styles, skills, and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place. Next is mentoring, which means off-line help by one person to another in making significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking. Both are very efficient whenever you’re dealing with student-athletes. However, mentoring, particularly in its traditional sense, enables an individual to follow in the path of an older and wiser colleague who can pass on knowledge, experience and open doors to otherwise out-of-reach opportunities. Coaching, on the other hand, is not generally performed on the basis that the coach has direct experience of their client’s formal occupational role unless the coaching is specific and skills focused. Given that shows there are professionals offering their services under the name of mentoring who have no direct experience of their clients’ roles and others offering services under the name of coaching who do. In other words, it is essential to determine what needs are productive, and to ensure that the coach or mentor can supply their student-athletes with the level of service that is required; whatever that service is

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