Initial+Proposal

What is the process of preparation for sport coaches before and during their seasons? What lead me to the idea of doing this as a project was the fact that I plan to start a little league team with my cousin when I am out of high school. We decided this after talking about how we would run a team if we had one, so then it became final. I want to do this as a project because it will help me prepare for coaching when it’s time to do so. I want to take a personal approach meaning, instead of finding loads of research, I plan to use coaches that have coached me, coaches that coach other sports around me, and former coaches. I may ask some of these coaches to create some type of visual timeline so I could see how coaching is broken down in their minds. Some areas that I will need to explore truly depends on how deep in coaching I plan to go and also what levels of coaching I plan to use. But definitely some reviews, interviews, etc. will be needed to successfully understand coaching. This project will definitely take up a lot of time and will involve a lot work, especially if I decide to interview multiple coaches, but the good thing about that is I would be knocking out the research part essentially also. Depending on how my interviews go, depends on the amount of online and book sources I gather. My mentor will serve as one of my interviewed coaches, but he will also assist me in deciding the actual project portion and help with some online resources. The only problems I foresee right now with this project are timing, in terms of getting the interviews and editing, but also finding scholarly online sources for coaching. But if I can set up a timeline for myself, and incorporate what free time I have to talk to teachers and coaches for help finding sources, I should be fine. Besides that this project will run smoothly and come out great. .