This is the
makeup of the coaches coaching our Olympic teams in Beijing – 22 are foreign
born and 26 are US born. Nothing against foreign born coaches, but does this signify
a crisis in coaching in the US? I think it does? Where are our coaches being trained?
Where are they coming from? What is the career path to become a coach? We had better
start training coaches and PE teachers or we will be in a bigger crisis than we
are now, four and eight years from now. Just because you played a sport does
not mean you can be a coach. You must be trained in the principles of coaching,
sports science, practice organization and planning. Where in the US can someone
who aspires to be a coach learn this? There are not many places anymore where
you can learn to be a teacher or a coach. Online courses do not make it, last
time I checked coaching is high touch with a lot of personal interaction. I am
so thankful for the courses I had in college and the instructors that I had
that drilled us on the basics. Dr Harabedian’s PE 30A and 30 B course at Fresno
State in the spring of 1965 is an essential for everyone who thinks they want
to coach. Not available anymore. We better start thinking where the next
generation of coaches is coming from.
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sul
Go to a local youth sporting event and you will find 10-30 coaches sitting on the sidelines coaching, (to many chiefs and not enough indians). I see some great coaches that are average teachers of the game. And I see some great teachers that have little insight on how to coach athletes.
To say everybody is an athlete I find true, but not every mind is an athlete.
I have to go we are have an earth quake here in LA WOW!!
mike
I found this on Wayne Goldsmith’s website-
http://www.sportcoachingbrain.com
“Every sport in every nation is trying to figure out how to develop world class coaches. Some nations are spending millions of dollars / pounds / rubles trying to fast track the development of the next generation of high performance coaches……..and in general………everyone is failing.
Why?
Because in general most coach education programs are based on sports science. And as much as I personally love sports science, it represents about 2% of the day to day life of a world class coach.
Because in general, coach education programs and systems in most countries are designed by, driven by and managed by people who have not been world class coaches or understand the real needs of world class coaches.
Because in general, the coach education programs and systems in most countries are trying to find a formula for something that has no formula: to define something that is impossible to define: uniqueness.”
The complete article http://www.sportscoachingbrain.com/how-to-develop-world-class-coaches/#more-126
This is definitely the wavelength to be on. Now to convince the administrators…
Sympathy
There is not much incentive for ex athletes to go coaching in America
St patrick
Should a professional coaching school be developed to develop this talent.