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Determining Your Coaching Objectives
AL349 _ Chapter 2 Page 1
Principles of Coaching
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
]
. . .
n
[
PHYSICALLY
]
, by learning
[
SPORT
]
skills, improving
[
PHYSICAL
]
conditioning, developing good
[
HEALTH
]
habits, and avoiding injuries
n
[
PSYCHOLOGICALLY
]
, by learning to
[
CONTROL
]
their emotions and
developing
[
FEELINGS
]
of self-worth; and

Determining Your Coaching Objectives
AL349 _ Chapter 2 Page 2
Principles of Coaching
n
[
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
[ PEOPLE ]
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
[ ]
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,