Why do you Coaches want too be a coach

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Parents and other coaches want to know why you want that job as a head coach!

What drives a coach (Female or Male) to take on such pressures and issue that go with coaching as well as taking on the head coach job as well? Lets hear it coaches!!!
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I played many years in baseball and softball and then started coaching got married 1st time, and stopped coaching cold turkey. Many years there don't ask how many!
Got remmarried had a daughter and she was old enough to start playing and then boom it hit me, I had to help when seeing things are not being done right.
My daughter no longer plays but I still keep on going for the love of the sport and the chance to help a player become skilled and move up towards college. Fastpitch softball has action and great people with the same love for the sport! I do it for the players smiles win or lose! My free time goes to the kids and parents with no more regrets!

I am so sorry that I turned down the chances to help others in the past years and for the early days of walking away from coaching when the players wanted me to continue for them.

I thank god for the skills God gave me and a second chances in life as well the chance to help at something that makes a differeence in others. We all need wakeup calls!!!

NOTE: If you coach and really love it and you know it helps kids out......dont ever quit! You will regret the lost years of not coaching! Give the opportunity to a kid and family that might not have it without you!

Life is good and fastpitch people are family on both sides of the line!

 

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You know I love coaching, I feel like I'm meant to do it. I held this past week 2 tryout/Workouts. I texted 4 people letting them know I was bringing my oldest DD and my middle DD to field to workout. Over 30 kids came out, just to workout. I had age ranges from 7 years old to 14 years old. 2 days later my workout turned into a private tryout for 2 coaches from 2 different age brackets again I had 30+ kids on 4 fields. One kid who is coming out has accepted a spot on another team from another organization. Everyone of these kids I have either coached or have worked 1 on 1 with, they also know once I'm their coach I'm always their coach. A player of mine can decide to go a different route or play for a different organization but I've tried to get across I will still be there for them when or if they need me. The texts of gratitude I got last night from parents and kids made my year...I also took them all out for DQ which is probably the real reason they came out haha, but to see my former players help my current players and my current players help my future players run my drills was a thing of beauty. That's why I coach the game I love!

 

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I coach because I can give back. I can relate to the girls, and I love to see them take my "style" and turn it into success. We have fun the way I wanted to as a player. Ultimately for me, seeing them succeed is what gets me going and I'm lucky enough to have the patience to let it all develop and ultimately that's why I do it. Fun and love for this game caught me so off guard. I've actually quit coaching basketball which I "thought" I loved... girls fastpitch is where it's at. I've met the best people ever along the way and wouldn't trade it for the world!!!!!!

 

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So my kid can start?(thats sarcasm)

 

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Because....a long time ago i was given the chance to play a game I love. Today, because i can still name every coach I ever had and what she/he taught me about the game. Period.

 

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lets see no money, no fame, no glory, my dd would start in that spot without me, so well why do i coach? lol i think every coach has to believe they bring something to the table something that helps girls become better

 

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I love the game and coaching allows me to not only teach it to the girls, who I love working with so much, but it let's me continue to be a part of the game. The smiles on their faces when they succeed is worth all the time, money, problems, stress, and headaches. Plus I get a killer tan standing out there coaching the bases.

 

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Parents and other coaches want to know why you want that job as a head coach!

What drives a coach (Female or Male) to take on such pressures and issue that go with coaching as well as taking on the head coach job as well? Lets hear it coaches!!!
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I played many years in baseball and softball and then started coaching got married 1st time, and stopped coaching cold turkey. Many years there don't ask how many!
Got remmarried had a daughter and she was old enough to start playing and then boom it hit me, I had to help when seeing things are not being done right.
My daughter no longer plays but I still keep on going for the love of the sport and the chance to help a player become skilled and move up towards college. Fastpitch softball has action and great people with the same love for the sport! I do it for the players smiles win or lose! My free time goes to the kids and parents with no more regrets!

I am so sorry that I turned down the chances to help others in the past years and for the early days of walking away from coaching when the players wanted me to continue for them.

I thank god for the skills God gave me and a second chances in life as well the chance to help at something that makes a differeence in others. We all need wakeup calls!!!

NOTE: If you coach and really love it and you know it helps kids out......dont ever quit! You will regret the lost years of not coaching! Give the opportunity to a kid and family that might not have it without you!

Life is good and fastpitch people are family on both sides of the line!

Your thread give me hope that if we keep looking hard we will find a good coach that puts the girls first and not their DD's. We had a horrific experience last year,this parent weaseled her way into a coaching position three weeks into the season then her DD got a choice position on the infield,batting order,and became 2nd pitcher over night. She was playing outfield before! This is why there are many so-so team out there,the DD's of these so called coaches can not earn a spot on the teams without them. It's ashame when these coach claim they are here to mould these young ladies for college with character and they have no character themselves. How they manipulate 10-12yrs. to keep them happy so they don't ask to play their DD's position, it's beyond comprehension. " Got to get my DD her playing time screw the rest" makes me want to puke! For the head of this organz. to let this happen, let's put it this way their coaching ethics were one in the same,so many lies at the end of season they could not cover them up. This coach was like a cancer that spread over this team and by the end it was in disarray. Finding this thread inspires me to keep looking for a coach a lot more like yourself, with morals that put all the girls first not just the chosen one.Thank You

 

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Masochism

 

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Kidding. I love working with kids and "paying it forward".

 

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Your thread give me hope that if we keep looking hard we will find a good coach that puts the girls first and not their DD's. We had a horrific experience last year,this parent weaseled her way into a coaching position three weeks into the season then her DD got a choice position on the infield,batting order,and became 2nd pitcher over night. She was playing outfield before! This is why there are many so-so team out there,the DD's of these so called coaches can not earn a spot on the teams without them. It's ashame when these coach claim they are here to mould these young ladies for college with character and they have no character themselves. How they manipulate 10-12yrs. to keep them happy so they don't ask to play their DD's position, it's beyond comprehension. " Got to get my DD her playing time screw the rest" makes me want to puke! For the head of this organz. to let this happen, let's put it this way their coaching ethics were one in the same,so many lies at the end of season they could not cover them up. This coach was like a cancer that spread over this team and by the end it was in disarray. Finding this thread inspires me to keep looking for a coach a lot more like yourself, with morals that put all the girls first not just the chosen one.Thank You

Remember, just because you had a bad experience with a coach who had a dd on the team doesn't make all parent coaches bad coaches. They are usually the most committed because they do have a dd on the team and are therefore invested. I've had many non-parent assistants who hardly showed up to anything and always left us hanging. Research the coach before you join the team.

 

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I always loved the "aha moment" when they did that thing they were always trying to do and you helped them get there.

 

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First and foremost, coaching is a chance to give something back ... to help kids learn more about the game, sportsmanship, class and, maybe if I'm lucky, something more important about life. Secondary reasons are that I just plain love the game and the competition.

 

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First-I am not a head coach...simply an assistant. I have head coached other teams in other sports (both rec & select). The best way to explain is that my biggest "hero" growing up coached. My father. He coached me from age 5 all the way up, and was an assistant on the high school team as well. I remember seeing the frustration with schedule, parents, players, etc...But now watching women that have children of their own see my dad, and gush about him teaching them so much more than a sport is awesome. He had players that had rotten upbringings and was a great father figure.
I love the sport. No doubt about that, it is a long term addiction. I may not be able to bring the vast knowledge that our head coach brings, but I can bring the factor that as a mom, there are times to be nurturing, times to be tough, and times to be just that...a mom.

 

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Simply Put : Love Kids And Love The Game! Plus its much better than fantasy football with co-workers. They belly-ache more than parents.

 

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I started coaching in self defense. Most of the coaches my kids (boy and 2 girls) were exposed to at a young age had no idea how to teach these skills or relate to the kids. These were typically guys that had some skill as players but lousy role models for coaches. A lot of yelling seemed to predominate their practices and games. I read a lot of books, went to clinics and finally found some outstanding coaches and learned how to coach these young female athletes.

I have invested over a decade and now feel that since my dd's have moved on that I should continue teaching. I am firmly convinced that the least important lessons we teach are about softball. The most important are lessons deal with Honor, Respect, Honesty, Adversity, Showing-up, Taking a chance, Being feminine AND athletic, dealing with failure and success, Being a teammate, Carrying the water...etc.

Softball is the vehicle and skills are important but it is vital that my coaching efforts help these young players become outstanding young women.

 

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I started coaching when I saw how little "instruction" Louuuuuise was getting with her first team. 'Love kids, and watching them when they show improvement. However, I got out of coaching when I saw that my daughter had potential to excel in an environment much more advanced than the teams I was competing with. No regrets. Plus, I believe the father-daughter relationship is better when it's not also a coach-player relationship. I've also heard hints that she'll want me to help her coach her kids' team (eventually) so I couldn't have messed it up too bad...

 

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personally I love that big smile you see when you work with a kid for while then they succeed and are really filled with joy. ...
The reasons most do it here in my area is assure Suzy her spot. If they spent as much time working with other kids as they do their own the team would benefit. MD

 

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didn't want to... took about 5 conversations with Kavin... and if you know him... that's like talking to a crazed salesman who is always up for selling his "As seen on TV productssssss" that you can get for 3 easy payments of $.99... a hard sell not to buy, right!?

For me it started out that I can communicate it better than I played it. The challenge of getting the perfect words out of my mouth to their ears and it translate into useful information that is tangible is a challenge I can not pass up.

The biggest paycheck comes at every practice and game when the ladies perform beyond my words ever taught them. Couple that with smiles, the ah-hah moments when they get it, add it to the tears of joy after a win, and finally seeing 'rare' individuals do extraordinary things as a person... my influence has helped these ladies in special ways. As Mad Hornet said, I like giving back. Fastpitch is an addiction that has to rival the worst drugs on the market. I coached basketball for 8 years, nothing in bball comes close to the fulfillment I get from softball. So, wealth has nothing to with the amount of cash in my pocket yet I feel like a millionaire. That's what keeps me coming back.

 

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I miss coaching for many reasons but like most of us that has a kid playing it is about them not me. It was time for my DD to play for someone else who is very good at pushing the kids without being Dad and also for the recruiting aspect. Well it worked out cause she verballed to the school that she wanted to play for. But I do miss coaching for the following reasons:

1. First and foremost - I miss the time with the kids - I have coached some great kids and the fact that most of them come up to me in tournies and sit and talk and update me and share memories tells me that I did make some influence. So the kids are #1

2. I miss seeing the kids develop - get better over time - get offers - fullfill their dreams or just as good - decide that their dream was to go another direction - doesnt have to be softball

3. I admit it - I miss the competition - yes I do like squeezing in a run or two or three and winning that close game

4. I miss the time with my co-coaches - I had some great coaches to coach with - Mike Robinson, Sherri Thomas, the folks in Texas - wow - could not have asked for better

5. I miss respecting the game by teaching it right - gracious winners and not sore losers


6. I miss getting to know some of the parents - I know that that is a no-no but I have some great friends that used to be players parents

My DD tells me that she wants to coach after her Freshman year in College so we will see - nothing would make me happier than being able to coach with her

That is it - Murphy - out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1