Tuesday, June 18, 2024

How Does It Feel to Be Coached by Me?

Coaching is collaboration. Coaches feel positively about every player on the team as a person, not just as "cogs" in a machine.

Just as coaches work to add value for every player on the team, players should work to add value for every teammate.

A young player who is a freshman or sophomore has to learn a lot:

  • Professionalism - being on time, prepared, never a distraction
  • Fundamantals - individual skills like platform, runup, armswing
  • Collaboration - positioning and communication
  • Coverages - where you belong at any given moment
  • Teamwork - the capacity to put the team above yourself
  • Coachability - learning to take instruction and criticism
  • Humility - "star in your role" even when that's low playing time
  • Respect - for teammates, coaches, opponents, officials
  • Practice - playing hard on the 'stay ready group' improves the starters and impacts winning
  • Attitude - "get over yourself" by making others better

Lagniappe. Learn MUDITA, "your joy is my joy." When you learn to feel happiness for another's success, you grow your joy. 

 

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