Care, Costs in Coaching
Coaching is known to be a ‘caring activity’ where athletes are encouraged to flourish both as people and players (Corin and Armour, 2018). From experience, there has been one coach in my entire sporting career who will go up and beyond to ensure that all there athletes feel happy and safe, not only in there sporting environment but in all areas and aspects of their life, such as in school and at home. This coach is very passionate about their sport and truly care about every individual. Other coaches however don’t have all the athlete’s best interest in mind, coaching is just a job to them and so they conduct the bare minimum in regards to caring for every athlete, unless they feel they are gaining something by doing more e.g. Winning games, developing the next best athlete or for their own satisfaction. My question to you as coaches is are your athletes truly given the support to be successful or is this support to be successful come at the expense of the athlete’s welfare. Su...