First time in program history we've ever played in a section final. We're CIF Central Section VI champions. Your 23-24 Foothill High Woman's Basketball team.
I see many people prioritize their jobs over their families every day. I used to do that as a coach all the time.
Your organization/program will replace you in a heartbeat.
For your family, you are irreplaceable.
Why are so many talented coaches getting out of coaching?
One reason is because the coaching portion of their job is now just 1% of the position.
A large part of coaching is adapting to the rapidly changing landscape of athletics including:
*Roster management
*Student-athlete needs
*Engaging boosters/stakeholders
*Conflict resolution
*Academic advising and monitoring
*Working with administration
*Program marketing
*Staff management
*Creative solutions and vision
*Budgeting and logistics
*Creating and managing expectations with players, staff, administration, parents, and community (this includes managing and working through politics)
The job is more comprehensive than ever and is becoming less about coaching and more about creating and managing. The head coach is essentially a CEO of a small business.
Coaching isn’t different than other industries though. For example, many restaurant owners opened their restaurant because they love cooking and are very talented in the kitchen. However, once their business gets going they are often in the kitchen less and focusing more on the restaurant operations as a whole. They didn’t open their restaurant with a passion of engaging with unruly customers, managing workforce turnover, working with food vendors on increased pricing due to inflation, or managing costly building repairs. However, all of these things are paramount to running a successful restaurant.
Many coaches say the player-coach impact/relations as well as X’s and O’s are the things they love most about coaching. It’s the reason why they got into coaching. Much like the restaurant owner, coaches need to adapt to and embrace the many things that aren’t their direct passion to be able to be successful.
Embrace the required 99% so you get to do the 1% you love.
It sucks when a college coach calls you & you have to be honest about a player's lack of effort, honesty, commitment, parents not being good to deal with, and being a bad teammate but good coaches don’t lie to colleagues - it's terrible for future players.
The Kern High School District will provide FREE summer meals to all children ages 2-18 in our community beginning on June 5, 2023 through July 14, 2023. Please click below to see locations and times.
For all you athletes who don’t want to attend summer workouts.
‼️If you don’t go to summer workouts, you there is a very special place reserved for you during games in the fall.
We're going to miss our seniors, they helped lay the foundation of this program. One of our goals was to get them to experience how it felt to be a winner on that basketball court and the mission was accomplished!
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