During one of the lectures this year we as a group were asked to think back over our coaching experiences and discuss moments that really stood out to us for both positive and negative reasons. This allowed me time to think back both over the current placement at Lincoln Minster School as well as my previous experiences in coaching.
My first real experience as a coach came when for a brief time I was in charge of a Local under 11’s football club, this helped my to develop my own confidence as a coach as well as give me a small amount of experience coaching a team. I found this to be a positive experience in my coaching career developing relationships with players as well as learning how to both work alongside and control parents.
Along the same subject of dealing with parents a negative experience in which I feel benefited me as a coach was when I was confronted by a parent for not playing their son enough during a game. I believe I could have handled the situation better had I had some more experience however instead I became very quiet and shy which I don’t believe to be in my nature at all. I believe that with more coaching experience I could have easily explained to the parent that my aim for the team was to give everyone the turns up to a game as much time on the pitch as possible and with the high number I had at that time I gave everyone as much time as possible. This really sticks in my mind because I always felt that i could do better both as a coach and dealing with disgruntled parents.
With my current placement at Minster School I have found it a very positive experience because it has given me an insight into how P.E departments work also added experience in coaching rugby.