Transcript Chapter 2 – Determining Your Coaching Objectives

Chapter 2 – Determining Your
Coaching Objectives
I. Three major objectives of sport:
I•to have a winning team,
•to help young people have fun,
•to help young people develop physically
(sport skills, conditioning, health habits,
avoiding injury), psychologically (control
emotions, develop self-worth), and socially
(cooperation in competition, standards
of behavior)
A. Assessing your objectives: Use
Your Coaching Objectives
questionnaire (p. 19)
B. Society’s objectives
 Society offers sport programs to
help young people develop.
 Society seems to indicate that it
values winning more than
development.
C. Recreational versus competitive
sport programs
1. Recreational sport emphasizes
fun, learning, and participation by
all.
2. Competitive sport emphasizes
winning, performance, and
participation by the best (see figure
2.1, p. 21).
3. Problems arise when there is
incompatibility between program
objectives and coaches’ objectives
(see figure 2.2, p. 21).
4. Administrators’, players’, and
parents’ objectives may be
incompatible with sport program
objectives.
II. A Winning Philosophy
American Sport Education Program
motto: “Athletes First, Winning
Second”
1. The cornerstone of coaching
philosophy
2. Philosophical foundation of the Bill
of Rights for Young Athletes (see
figure 2.3, p. 23)
A.
B. Striving to Win
1. Striving to win should be the
objective of every athlete and
coach.
2. Vince Lombardi stated his
coaching philosophy as “Winning
isn’t everything, but striving to win
is.”
C. Commitment
1.Youth are drawn to sport by the
competition, the striving to win, and the
recognition of excellence achieved.
2.James Coleman cited the importance of
intense commitment and total effort in
achieving success and in humanity’s great
accomplishments.
3.James Michener stated that sport saved
his life by rescuing him from the streets
and a potential life of crime.
D. Ethical Behavior
1. Young people can develop morally
through sport and learn a basic
code of ethics that is transferable to
a moral code for life.
2. Moral decisions are often required
in competitive sport.
III. Keeping winning in perspective
A. Winning or striving to win is never
more important than athletes’ wellbeing.
B. When winning is kept in
perspective, sport programs
produce positive results.
IV. Your personal objectives
A. Identify your personal objectives in
developing your coaching
philosophy.
B. Examine your personal reasons for
coaching (see table 2.1, p. 27).
V. Conclusions
A.
B.
Successful coaches recognize the
differences between objectives for the
contest, objectives for their athletes’
participation, and their own personal
objectives.
Successful coaches find ways to achieve
all three objectives: to have a winning
team; to help young athletes have fun;
and to help them develop physically,
psychologically, and socially.