I Heart Coaching!

“Coaching is a process where an experienced person, or coach, helps a client or learner achieve a specific goal through guidance and training. The goal of coaching is to help a person improve their performance and develop their skills. Coaching can be used in a professional or personal context.”  – Google

Coaching is so much more than that.  From all the different levels to youth sports to professional sports, a coach not only leads kids or adults in their sports, but also leads them in life. As a coach when you hold your athletes accountable for their actions during practices and games you are also holding them accountable in their personal life.  Not letting athletes give up on a difficult challenge whether at practice or competition, helping them figure out that perseverance means more than the points on a scoreboard is the essence of coaching.  

When life throws you challenges both within and out of sports, you can either push yourself to keep working hard in order to overcome the trial or give up.  With a good coach, giving up should never be an option. Ideally, coaches are there to not only push you but guide you through those challenges! 

A coach may not always be the most liked person on a team, but at the end of the day the success not only in sport but also in life is the measurement of a good coach.  Coaches ought to make sure their athletes goals take priority, because in the end coaches are here to serve! 

As a coach I have the best job in the world and I’m so thankful I get to do what I love!