Coaching
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Loading ...When my former teammates (well, if you count the women’s team* as teammates, which I do) got wind that my first choice for Med School next year also happens to be their school, I got an immediate reaction:
“!!!
“You can coach us next year!”
My reaction was significantly less enthusiastic. That said, it’s not like I don’t want to coach–merely that the prospect of being in that role for a perennial nationals-caliber performer is a little daunting.
I’ll be putting a bit of thought into this going forwards, and would love to hear feedback from people with far more experience than I on the matter (psst, the Huddle! How about an issue or feature on coaching this spring? Broad strokes and specifics are both welcome resources). Hopefully in so doing I can flesh out a bit of my perspective and philosophy on learning and the game.
Largely it’ll be open questions that I’d like to hear opinions on, so PLEASE chip in.
*it should be noted that Alex Kell ’10 also asked, but we’ll put him under “women’s team.” Dude plays in a skirt, after all.
Coaching a (high-school) women’s team was one of the most rewarding experiences in Ultimate that I’ve had. But it was for a very brief time, and I should probably put quotation marks around “coaching.”
Still, I’d be happy to chip in what I could on whatever topics you put forward. I like thinking about how things work.
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