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A Case For Coaches Education

October 21, 2007 at 6:07 pm | In High, Middle | No Comments

I am committed to bringing the National Federation of High School’s Fundamentals of Coaching workshop to Carteret County on February 18. Like all professionals, coaches need their saws sharpened too. Coaches Ed will help new coaches collapse the learning curve. It will help cagey veterans learn a few new tricks.

A recent News-Times article entitled “Conley Coach Gone after Altercation at West” speaks to how far a situation can devolve when coaching goes south.

The coach’s dismissal apparently came as a result of the coach’s behavior after the game when he helped engineer the celebration at midfield that was labeled “unprofessional” by West coach Ben Emmons.

“The coach was way out of hand,” Emmons noted. “It has not just been us, it has gone on a few other places where other schools have had a lot of problems with them.”

“It was very unprofessional about what happened after the game, running their mouths at me and the fans in the parking lot. The guy that started it all was the assistant coach, not the head coach.”

Pitt County Schools athletic director Bob Dailey said of the Conley assistant coach: “He is not with the team for the rest of the season. We are trying to move on in a positive way. We try to promote good sportsmanship, and we did some things internally to ensure that.”

You just never know where and when breakdowns in organized athletics will occur. Therefore, you can never be proactive enough in ensuring that the fundamentals of coaching are in place for every sport in every season.