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Why Good Coaches Matter

TDR Editor’s Note ; While this may seem obvious that coaches matter. It can be discussed how great coaching matters and can bring successful wrestling accomplishments. As this author emphasizes it is more important that the coach helps the wrestler to become a better person. That matter most when my coaches helped me in that manner and I hope that I helped wrestlers I coached to become better athletes and better in all that they do.
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By Jon Solomon, editorial director of the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program
There’s a boy I coached a couple seasons ago in U-9 rec soccer. He’s a good kid at heart who shows such beautiful joy in sports. He’s also prone to distraction and occasional disruption because of ADHD. Early in our soccer season, he looked like a defeated kid. He was so used to getting disciplined by teachers at school that when I sat him once for being disruptive at practice, he replied, “I know the drill,” and took a seat without complaining.
Because his parents thoughtfully told me of their son’s challenges, I intentionally focused on how I coached him considering his learning style or needs. There was some discipline at times, but I worked to build him up. By the end of the season, he had demonstrated improvement so much so that I named him a team captain, so he could feel ownership in our team’s success and failure.
I saw the boy’s dad recently at a rec basketball game. The dad was frustrated about his son’s basketball experience.  Rest of the story at
https://www.thepredicament.com/2019/08/why-good-coaches-matter/?mc_cid=cea6ad412f&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

August 16, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized