Through reading other's risk management plans I have began to think about how much a coach has to worry about. I know that before I tried out for each of my three sports in high school I as the player had a meeting with the head coach. I explained to the coach my ailments. I did this to ensure the coach knew my limitations and what I could or couldn't do. I also did this when my diabetic sister and I were in high school together. My mother or I would go in and have a meeting with the coach who would be running tryouts. We would explain what level her blood sugar had to be at to compete and what the warning signs for high or low blood sugar were.  Read more »

My general outlook at being a coach is to help guide athletes not only in athletics, but academically as well. To me being a great coach is not measured in wins or losses, but in how you made an impact on your students life. As a coach at the high schoool level, I believe it's important to press the importance of academics, and encourage them to continue into college using both these skills. Being a leader is not measured by how many times you can blow a whistle, but how you conduct yourself on and off the field. Many kids look up to coaches as role models, so you always have to remember how your actions look to them.

I wanted to see what all you guys thought about this certain subject.  Do you agree or disagree or what is your standpoint on this?

When i was raised, I was not allowed to go skiing or snowboarding or anything like that during sports.  I do not remember my coaches having any rules on it, but now in college sports, there are more so regulations as to not do those things.  As a coach, will you allow your athletes to do these extracurricular activities during season?  Will you have rules that they can't do these?  Just really want to know if any of you will make it a rule at the beginning of the season or what your outlooks are on this subject.

Thanks, can't wait to hear back.

Coaching Football Successfully

By: Bob Reade

            Recently, I was handed a book from a long time coach here at the high school in which I coach. It is titled Coaching Football Successfully and was written by Bob Reade. Bob is somewhat of a local hero here in Illinois and holds the NCAA Division III record for consecutive wins. He coached Augustana College to five National Championships, four of which were consecutive. He won sixty games in a row between 1983 – 1987, and was his conference’s Coach of the Year nine times.   Read more »

If you have any remaining work and discussions you would like to present, please do so this week. I will likely be doing some grading next weekend, and if you have all of your work done and your certification complete, then you will be done with the class. Most of you have presented some outstanding work this term. I was impressed with the quality of projects that were presented. I'm confident you will be great coaches. Read more »

I was doing a little looking around online tonight about different philosophys on coaching to get some different insights and came across this from the coach from Grinnell college named Coach Hollibaugh and really could feel what he was wanting to teach his players.  Here is the link to his web page: http://www.grinnell.edu/athletics/baseball/missionphilosophy/.  Hope this might help some of you to zero in on what you all want to instill in your players.

Why do we coach? Is it because we want to give our younger generation direction in life and something to strive for? Do we do it for self gratification, so we can feel as if we are accomplishing something? Do we do it because we are good at it and can make good money doing it? Is it competition that we constantantly strive for and when we can no longer play athletics ourselves we feel we can turn to coaching to keep that competitive edge? Do we have to coach because no one else will or we feel that the other person is incompetent?  Will we coach because we feel like we can make a difference in the lives of the worlds youth? Will coaching make us a better person because we are giving back to the sports that have helped us. Read more »

Sorry it only pasted half of that application so here is the other half ;)

Sumner School District

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Sumner, WA 98390

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 I recently read a very interesting article titled- Psychological  Characteristics of younger and older coaches.   Authors-Dimec,T and Kajtna T. It can be found on Sports Discs, Kinesiology 41(2009) 2:172-180.  The article discusses how coaching is a very stressful job, requiring hard work and dedication. The article looks at the differences between new coaches and older  more experienced coaches.  The newer coaches were more agreeable and better at handling their emotions. Read more »