Plain and simple—sometimes sport coaches can be hard to love. (Or even like.) Spouse, significant other, family, parent, friend, roommate—it doesn’t matter. Sometimes it’s a challenge. And I have heard this quite often about coaches: Sometimes I just don’t know who that person is. The job of coaching can take a coach through huge highs […]
The most important person you will ever coach
Your reflection gives a perspective of how you look. Of how other people will see you. Looking deeper into that mirror you will see the most important person you will ever coach. Yep, it’s you. That’s a foreign concept to some coaches. They are quick to structure a practice. Correct an issue. Devise a strategy. […]
Coaches Like Us
Of course, there are people like us. Other coaches like us. Even coaches who coach the same sport as us. There is an advantage of hanging with people like us. We understand each other. We can help, console, and empathize with each other. People like us know the issues we are dealing with. We can […]
Cowardly Coaching, A Decision
A superhero movie is always playing in our local theater. I grab the kids and go because those movies are fun and exciting. But they’re fiction. I’d like to be a superhero-coach. That coach who is always doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason. Being brave all the time. Well, […]
The year of soulless coaching, and how I stopped
I leaned against the wall. It’d been a terrible season. Nothing helped. Whatever I did made it worse. It wasn’t them. Wasn’t the kids. It was me. Been there? Coaching is hard. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. This time it was wicked hard. Yet as sucky as it was I […]
8 Hells Of Coaching
Welcome to Hell. You don’t want to be here. You don’t deserve to be here. Yet, here you stand — hip deep in Coach-Hell. Welcome to the club. Every so often I visit Coach-Hell. Sometimes it’s my fault, sometimes not. Regardless of how I get there, the trips are always the same: hot, painful, and scary. […]
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