Personal Statement Though not initially obvious, there are many parallels between the court and the clinic. As a college basketball player, I learned that being an effective leader did not mean that I had to be a constant bundle of energy. Rather, I realized over time it is more important to understand your teammates and what makes them tick, and to translate that knowledge into separate leadership styles to match each individual. This is crucial when working with an extremely diverse group of attitudes, personalities, and mindsets. I believe people would describe my style as steady, positive, and upbeat – opposite of my head coach in many ways. Countless times I would pull a teammate aside who had been berated and explain in a constructive …show more content…
In 2015, I was chosen to be part of the USA Team Delegation to attend the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea, as a Medical Intern. There, I was struck by the varied approaches to performance enhancement and the more holistic approach to medicine in general, exemplified through different stretching methods and ways to harness an individual athlete’s chi, or energy. In the Athlete’s Village, I experienced acupuncture from a smiling Korean doctor as he explained how they try to use less prescription medicine for their …show more content…
Patients who refused to visit the practice, patients who declined to admit that their high blood pressure was secondary to their refusal to take their losartan. Luckily, my provider had been seeing these people for many years, and knew the techniques that would yield in the greatest cooperation. As I watched and listened, I obtained a deep understanding of the value of a relationship between the patient and the provider. Where one might have struggled to gain patient compliance, my provider knew when to implement a stern tone, and when to dial it back and become more comforting. Teamwork, patience, leadership, problem solving, and overcoming adversity refined and perfected my college athlete experience and I am excited to apply these themes to my potential next chapter in the medical profession! Doctors and athletes deal with many of the same day to day obstacles and both need to “read the defense” to decide on the best response. One must be able to deal with the heartbreak of a failure, whether that is a missed last second shot or an unsuccessful surgery, and still wake up the next day with the confidence to know that next time you will
The Head Coach of the JV Football team has given me the honor of being his Special Teams Coach. This job requires me to train his kickers, punters, long snappers, and holders. Starting August 1st I began working with a kicker for 2 hours per day and he has shown major improvement over the past month and a half. In the beginning, though he was very pessimistic about his success and it took a lot of motivation on my part for him to not quit. When I began training him we had to begin from the ground up because he had never kicked a football before in his entire life which was a major barrier to his success we had to get over. The head coach thought that I did such a good job with the first kicker that now I am training 3 kickers. My job includes
It took me ten years to beat my friend in the game of tennis, who gave me his tennis racquet after the game. While I might not be the most talented person in sports, I knew that if I wanted to raise to the next competitive level, I would have to build on my fundamentals, work hard with persistence and constantly keep up to date with the latest advancement of the tennis world. I share similar passion in medicine and multiple aspects of my life. Passion and persistence were part of the major reasons for me to receive straight A's in my clinical rotations during the 3rd and 4th years of medical study in the US.
College is a time for young people to develop and grow not only in their education, but social aspects as well. One of the biggest social scenes found around college campuses are athletic events, but where would these college sports be without their dedicated athletes? Student athletes get a lot of praise for their achievements on the field, but tend to disregard the work they accomplish in the classroom. Living in a college environment as a student athlete has a great deal of advantages as well as disadvantages that affect education and anti-intellectualism.
Imagine being in a working environment where your flaws are never at the fore front. Imagine being a part of a team that values the strengths of each person, and practices the know how to move quickly from storming to norming in the teamwork cycle. Is this a reality that will produce results for all involved? Is there every such a style? To answer these questions, it is important to look at what leadership theory currently causing success in the professional world. One theory is called Strengths Based Leadership, or positive psychology. This concept is gaining a following; starting with the father of positive leadership, Donald Clifton. Still questions linger if this concept of using person strengths improves their leadership
A defining moment in my life was when I decided that I wanted to be an athletic trainer when I grow up. I knew I wanted to be athletic trainer because I want to stay in the athletic field once I finish my athletic career. For me there is no better job than one that I can interact with athletes on a daily basis and help them prevent injuries. Knowing my career path early helped me lay out my academic goals, this also brought up some challenges.
The sport that I enjoy the most is basketball. For some reason I just enjoy dunks, threes, the hype of the game, people watching the player run back and forth and playing that their max stamina to be the greatest team or player. For this assignment I will demonstrate some examples on how I will apply specificity and overload within my workout for getting ready for games or scrimmage games with other players or by myself. For example, the start of my workouts would be agility workouts back and forth up and down the court to get my heart racing 30 times and exercise with squats to finish up my warm up. The reason for the warm is to increase my power in my legs. An alternative workout would be a rebounding drill to also improve power in the legs.
The exercises endorsed by physician in china are not typical aerobic workout. The daily exercises practice locating the chi within one’s and learning how to control it. Tai Chi is a commonly practiced form of martial arts throughout China. Every morning, as the sun rises, parks are flooded with people practicing their skills. Motions exercised are not vigorous or rushed; they are slow and often correspond to the nature around the person practicing. The doctors in this type of medical practice are the teachers of the patient. The goal of the doctor is to teach their patient to control their inner chi and to find the imbalance of chi within the body. Mastery of tai chi required a lot of dedication and mental training. True masters are able to project their chi from their body to the outside world. Chi can become a physical presence in the world. Masters are able to ward of attacks by manipulated the chi of their opponent and using nothing more than the touch of a
Growing up I was extremely blessed having an incredible coach at every level of sport I participated in. From those experiences I know how much a coach can make a difference in your life. For that reason my dream job is coaching college basketball at any division. It does not matter to me what level, because kids at the D-3 level need just as much guidance and help as student athletes at the D-1 level. During my coaching career I hope to blend two leadership styles in particular together in order to make my athletes better men, but also to keep the game they love fun to play. I feel by taking the Charismatic Leadership style’s enthusiasm and loyalty and mixing it with a Transformational Leaders innovation and emphasis on change, I can be an extremely effective and power leader for my student athletes.
Basketball was my favorite hobby when I was a child. My high school coach stressed the importance of teamwork and my favorite part of the sport was bonding with my teammates after my we made an amazing play. Winning games with everyone contributing was extremely gratifying, especially when it was our only win of the year. Teamwork is arguably the most important aspect in practicing medicine. Physicians must always get the input of other doctors for various treatments and diagnoses. They must always keep good contacts with doctors in varying fields for certain information or for help with laboratory testing. The nurses, the paramedics, the administrators, the volunteers, the patients, the families, the janitors, etc. must all act as one cohesive unit for a hospital to run smoothly. Every successful treatment of a patient is a win for the entire team, not just for the physician and the patient.
Have you ever felt like you were born to do something? Or have you ever been doing something for so long that it has become your life? When I was born, I was given a stuffed basketball toy that I carried everywhere with me, and I slept with it in my crib at night. I had a Little Tike Easy Score Basketball Set, and once I was able to start roaming around, I shot hoops whenever I could with the new rubber basketball that came with the set. As I continued to mature, I would always be playing basketball either at the park, at my friends house, at my house, or at any of our family gatherings.
Richard L. evans said “don’t let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” this quote inspired me to chase after my dreams no matter small they are. My three dream accomplishments are to become a professional skater. Growing up to play in the nba, or being a swat team member. I chose these dreams because these three careers can provide for a family.
Growing up, I have never been as talented at sports as some of my other peers. I was always the person who preferred to sit down in front of the television and watch the sports instead of actually playing the sports. Despite this, there were several times in which I played sports just to have fun. However, there was one specific recreational activity that I experienced. This moment taught me a valuable lesson not only about the benefits of recreation, but also about life in general.
If leadership is abused or not taken advantage of in a positive way, players will either be led astray or will not follow a coach’s leadership any longer; a team with a good leader tends to be unified (Dorfman, 2003). A coach should never manipulate his players, only encourage them (Dorfman, 2003). Coach K leads through the captains of his
I will want to be a professional basketball player. I want to be a basketball player because you make a lot of money and you get to have fun while playing and making people happy and having fans means a lot having people to support you getting cheered off. What I like best about NBA is you get to meet new people make friends I also like to make my family happy by playing in the NBA doing a fun sport and making money.
Leadership is conveyed throughout each team and I believe that no team can succeed if each player aims to perform better than their teammates and not the opponent, if a player is selfishly carrying the ball, and if there is no leader to maintain the team’s focus. Furthermore, I teach my philosophy to my teammates to enhance their understanding of the game and to allow our team to work as a