Coaches Box
You will be remembered...
Question, do you remember the name of your kindergarten teacher? Do you remember the name of your 1st grade teacher or 2nd grade, how about every teacher you had in high school or college?
What we have found is some people could maybe tell us the name of one or two of their teachers here and there, but very, very few could tell us the name of each teacher they ever had.
Another question, do you remember the name of your 1st baseball coach? Your 2nd baseball coach? How about could you remember the names of every coach you’ve ever had?
Most people we’ve asked that question to have said yes, they do. If that doesn’t prove to us how important and how big of an impact we have on the players we’re working with I don’t know what will.
As a coach, you will be remembered… the question is, what will you be remembered for?
Are you going to be remembered as the coach that was prepared and always showed up on time? Ran fun, beneficial practices where the players became better every day? Are you going to be remembered as a coach whose players enjoyed coming to practice and knew at the end of the day you cared for them and wanted to see them do well both on the field and off…
Or are you going to be remembered as the “coach” that didn’t know what he or she was doing, would show up late more often than on time or just cancelled practice all together when you didn’t feel like going? Are you going to be remembered as the coach that would put winning at all costs ahead of doing the right thing?
As the “coach” that really was only out there for their own child and everyone else was really just a secondary afterthought? Or best yet, are you going to be remembered as the coach that when things didn’t go as planned would become all negative and start hootin’ and hollarin’ and throwing things around acting like an idiot? We’ve all seen it haven’t we?
We’d suggest if you’re going to coach youth sports to make it important. Put the time in that each of the players on your team deserve. The players look up to us as coaches, at any level, probably most so at the younger youth levels. Make it important! Put the time into it that it deserves. You are in a very rare special position; you have the opportunity to make a POSITIVE impact on someone’s life. That’s one of the greatest joys of coaching. Don’t take that opportunity for granted.
We’d suggest being the coach who teaches players the understanding and value of team work, the importance of character, how to handle adversity, responsibility and how to be a leader, not to mention everything else the life classroom of being part of a team and out on a field create.
How will you be remembered? For a large part how you will be remembered is within your control. So the question is, how will you be remembered…
We wish each Youth Coach out there the best and truly wish success to all of you!