One thing i have learned coaching high school baseball to inner city kids is humility. Coaching for a program that has low numbers and less talented kids has grown my coaching skills and communication skills tremendously. One thing i would like to stress to coaches is to leave your pride at the door. It took me a while to do this, its so easy to get caught up with wins and losses.
Wins and losses will take care of themselves.
For some coaches , not all, the fact that they have won gives them instant credibility, but there's more to it than that. They have to install in their athletes the value of being taught and the lessons that you learn from playing a sport at a highly competitive level. That's the key to affecting an athletes whole life . The competition and team work stay with you , a long time after your done competing. That's what I'm hopefully passing on to my players. Many coaches don't emphasize that enough. I have seen many of a player focus on making it to the college level, but most them do not make it. They then go on to college and get their degree and become doctors, policeman, fathers and husbands etc. Many have come back to acknowledge what they have learned from playing ball. That's what we want to emphasize because that's the real value in what we are doing. That why i like to consider me a teacher rather than a coach.
Coach Killeen
Camelback HS
Wins and losses will take care of themselves.
For some coaches , not all, the fact that they have won gives them instant credibility, but there's more to it than that. They have to install in their athletes the value of being taught and the lessons that you learn from playing a sport at a highly competitive level. That's the key to affecting an athletes whole life . The competition and team work stay with you , a long time after your done competing. That's what I'm hopefully passing on to my players. Many coaches don't emphasize that enough. I have seen many of a player focus on making it to the college level, but most them do not make it. They then go on to college and get their degree and become doctors, policeman, fathers and husbands etc. Many have come back to acknowledge what they have learned from playing ball. That's what we want to emphasize because that's the real value in what we are doing. That why i like to consider me a teacher rather than a coach.
Coach Killeen
Camelback HS
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