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Determining Your Coaching Objectives
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
1 What are the three major goals of coaching?
3 What is the philosophy expressed in the motto of the American Sport Education
Program?
4 What is Vince Lombardi’s actual quotation pertaining to “winning”?
“winning isn’t everything, but striving to win is”
5 Winning or striving to win is never more important than athletes’
well-being, regardless of the mixed messages our society sends.
Three Major Objectives of Coaching
The
[ GOALS ]
coaches usually list fall into three broad categories:
1 To
[
WIN
]
To help
[ YOUNG ]
people have
[
FUN
]
2 To help young people
[
DEVELOP
]
. . .

[
PHYSICALLY
]
, by learning
[
SPORTS
]
skills, improving
[
PHYSICAL
]
conditioning, developing good
[
HEALTHY
]
habits, and avoiding injuries

[
PHYCHOLOGICALLY
]
, by learning to
[
CONTROL
]
their emotions and
developing
[
FELLINGS
]
of self-worth; and
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Determining Your Coaching Objectives

[
SOCIALLY
]
, by learning cooperation, in a
[
COMPETITIVE
]
context and
appropriate
[STANDARDS ]
of behavior
Society’s Objectives
From a review of the
[ PROFESSIONAL ]
literature written by educators, journalists,
religious leaders, and the medical community it is clear that our
[SOCIETY ]
offers sports
programs primarily to help young
[PEOPEL ]
develop physically,
[ PSYCHOLOGICALLY ]
, and socially – and that it expects you as a coach to accept
[DEVELOPMENT ]
as your number one objective s
Nevertheless, as you strive to
[ACHIEVE ]
this long-term objective of developing your
[YOUNG ]
athletes, our society also encourages you to achieve the
[SECONDARY ]
and
short-term objectives of
[ WINNING ]
and having
[FUN ]
.
Despite the general focus on
[DEVELOPMENT ]
in sports involving young athletes, some
representatives of our
[SOCIETY ]
clearly indicate that they value
[ WINNING ]
over the
development and well-being of
[ ATHLETES ]
by rewarding only the
[WINNERS ]
rather
than recognizing all participants equally. Fans cheer
[WINNING ]
teams and criticize teams
with losses,
[WINNING ]
sport programs receive more
[ FUNDING]
than losing ones,
and coaches’
[JOBS ]
sometimes depend on the win-loss record. As powerful as this
[ MESSAGE ]
may be in our society, it is one the author urges to be rejected. Instead,
[ STRIVE]
to coach to achieve all