2008 Woodie Awards
Influences of coaches can spoil the team experience for long time players
Amy Stephan
Issue date: 3/23/06 Section: Sports
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Sometimes playing a sport feels like your whole life, but when do you stop?
The pressure increases with each incident.
In life most people revolve their daily schedules around work, school, and family. Whatever time you have left you usually put that towards your extra curricular activities.
Well, imagine reversing that to where you're basing everything else in your life around your extra curricular activity.
The game begins to take over.
Athletes spend a huge amount of time training hard and dedicating their lives to certain sports.
But are they doing it for themselves or for their coaches?
Pushing, striving, and competing to be the best are all some things coaches have in common.
They all want to win.
Winning makes them look good right?
Athletes are a reflection on how great their coaches are. Without good techniques you can't be the best.
So, how far do you push them?
Is it too extreme to make a college player play a game of soccer on a tore ACL, or to shun someone out because they were too sick to get out of bed? Some could agree with me and say yes.
For many years this has been a great ordeal. The topic has been very controversial. I know what side I stand on but I wanted to find out how other MJC athletes felt about this and whether it is happening on our own campus.
"I think that coaches are into themselves and they don't really care about the players. They're way into politics." Anonymous MJC athlete says.
Coaches are huge influences on students, they teach them not just about the sport but other characteristics that these students will take and apply to other aspects of their lives. Coaches can be inspirations but they also have the power to push you away from it.
A coach can ruin the fun of the game for some. They may even push them to go as far as quitting and may never play again. That is a waste of talent.
"I loved softball, I've been playing since I was six years old I dedicated my life to it until two weeks ago. My coach had an influence on my decision." Holly Keenom a freshman at MJC said.
Athletes have a right to stand up to their coaches. Maybe the coaches don't realize that they are being too tough on their players but the players know when their coaches are being too hard on them.