Extra Blog Post March

My Hockey season is over, and Powderpuff has officially ended. Coaching the girls was a real eye opening experience. I feel like it helped me a lot. I realized that not everyone is capable of the task at hand, and it takes.... well, a coach, in order to get everyone on the same page. I had to make sure everyone was up to speed, and make sure everyone was ready, when it was game day. Although we lost, I believe that the girls were at least 10 times better than when they first came to practice. with the limits they gave me, I conditioned them to be the best kids they can be. The problem is no one had enough drive to push themselves. If they did, I would have been able to work them into tip top shape. They would have creamed the Juniors. But, they didn't even like running a lap. I knew I couldn't push them to their limits, so as a coach, I had to come up with another solution. I developed different drills that had incentives, or were fun, so that the girls would be motivated to work. This was a good way to develop my coaching skills, because it gave me an opportunity to see how coaching really works. I was able to teach what I could to get the girls to perform. I am proud to say that they got better too. They truly impressed me on game day. The only reason we lost was because of bad coaching. We didn't make the right calls when game time came along. It was a close game, and if the coaches made a few different calls, I believe we could have won. After it was all said and done, I am glad I had the chance to work with the girls, and coach them. I feel like it was a really good hands on experience, and really helped me in my path to coaching.