{"id":5369,"date":"2011-12-14T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T21:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2011-12-14T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T21:56:40","slug":"what-every-high-school-athlete-wants-from-a-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/what-every-high-school-athlete-wants-from-a-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"What Every High School Athlete Wants from a Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Way Coaches Treat Players Has a Long-term, Meaningful Impact<\/div>\n

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Coaching is more than W's and L's. It's about teaching young athletes to become responsible people and to love what they do.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lessons can be learned by adults, too.\u00a0 And in athletics sometimes coaches forget that they are dealing with youngsters who are committing themselves to the team and the coach.\u00a0 Every coach should at times step back and consider how he or she is developing athletes, not just the W’s and L’s, because in the long run, a team’s record matters little compared to the type of experience athletes have and\u00a0what they take away in life lessons.\u00a0 Hard work, dedication and\u00a0the willingness to sacrifice oneself for the betterment of the team are characteristics, to some degree, which every athlete offers a coach.\u00a0 It’s how a coach recognizes those efforts which can often mean a world of difference to\u00a0athletes as they move on to their next stage of life and try their best to carry on that\u00a0coach’s legacy of teaching, instructing and competing.\u00a0 Here, then, are the bare basics\u00a0all athletes want, and need, from their coaches:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fairness:<\/strong>\u00a0 No player wants to be passed over because another, less talented athlete is given preferential treatment or the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 Athletes want to be evaluated and earn playing time based on skill and results, not on favoritism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A chance to prove themselves:\u00a0<\/strong> Size really should not matter when it comes to high school, club and travel organization athletics, especially when a smaller athlete can do the job as well, if not better, than a teammate who is put at the top of the depth chart because of size.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Clear direction and honest feedback:\u00a0<\/strong> Athletes want details and they want to know where they stand with a coach.\u00a0 Giving athletes a clear path and then timely, unfettered input on their efforts allow athletes to adjust and work harder toward reaching the coach’s expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where the line is drawn:\u00a0<\/strong> Behavioral goals regarding practice, the classroom, games or away from the team provide athletes with the boundaries they need to become responsible.\u00a0 Without these laid out in exact terms, young athletes can go beyond their perceived limits and cause damage to themselves and their team.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Appreciation:<\/strong>\u00a0 Winning is important, but so is giving everything of oneself for the coach and team.\u00a0 A coach that recognizes one hundred percent effort is the coach who will get it time and again, regardless of the contest’s outcome.<\/p>\n

Encouragement:<\/strong>\u00a0 Few things motivate athletes like getting a pat on the back or a coach telling the team what an athlete brings to them.\u00a0 Athletes want to be pushed while constantly being told that they have it within themselves to go the extra mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 The Way Coaches Treat Players Has a Long-term, Meaningful Impact \u00a0 Lessons can be learned by adults, too.\u00a0 And in athletics sometimes coaches forget that they are dealing with youngsters who are committing themselves to the team and the coach.\u00a0 Every coach should at times step back and consider how he or she … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}