coaches yelling: positive or negative

[1stbasecoach]

I feel there is a time and place for yelling, and it depends on the way you yell. Yelling does not mean berating. Some kids will not react to yelling and some will. Our girls think nothing of it and when I asked my daughter, who gets yelled at more than most of the girls, she says she doesn't think we coaches yell all that much. I watch a lot of college coaches that yell at their girls, in a couple different sports, and those girls are so used to it they think nothing of it. Even when on national tv and in front of huge crowds, they act like it is no big deal. It also depends on the relationship a coach has with the player, it is about trust. A coach that spends a couple hours a week with a player probably doesn't have the same relationship/credibility as a coach that is with a player for years and many hours a week. The game has a lot of emotion in it, good, bad, and ugly and yelling is part of it. I think the girls can feed off that emotion when a coach is yelling.

 

[Elspizo]

Anyone who has to yell AT the girls is a crap coach because if he/she actually taught them what to do, how to play he/she would just have to remind them.

Now, if you mean speaking in a voice loud enough to be heard, I get that. Sometimes raising your volume is the only way they hear you over everything that’s distracting them. Especially as a base coach during play, I get that.

The difference between “yelling”and “speaking loudly” is respect. There is no substitute for respect and there is no room in softball for coaches who don’t respect their players.