September 5, 2002 Vol.4 No.13   Conference/Workshop Calendar
 Editorial

This month PELINKS4U is delighted to introduce Wade and Jenelle Gilbert as new "Coaching & Sports" section editors

Wade and Jenelle are faculty members at California State University, Fresno. In this issue they share some of the research they have conducted in the area of coaching.

Also included are coaching-related articles written by graduate students at Cal-State Fresno.

Please welcome Jenelle and Wade and feel free to contact them if you have any questions or thoughts on this month's section.

Wade Gilbert and Jenelle N. Gilbert
Coaching & Sports Section Editors


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 Success Quotes

Coaching Inspiration

Lou Holtz
"What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability; what you attempt is determined by your motivation; how well you do something is determined by your attitude."

Ken Ravizza
"Peak performance in life isn't about succeeding all the time or even being happy all the time. It's often about compensating, adjusting, and doing the best you can with what you have right now."

Harvey McKay
"People begin to be successful the minute they decide to be."

Coach Bear Bryant
"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

Joe Montana
"When the game is over, I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had."

Vince Lombardi
"Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

Rick Hansen
"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break."

Joe Torre
"You don't control all of the conditions that make it possible to be a winner - Control what you can and let go of the rest."

John Wooden
"Make each day your masterpiece."

Mike Ditka
"You're never a loser until you quit trying."

Lee Stang Life and Sports Success Coaching


TWU
 Coaching Article

The Science of Coaching
Wade Gilbert, California State University - Fresno

A project was recently conducted to map the research on: (a) what coaches do (e.g., verbal and nonverbal behaviors, coaching styles) and what they think (e.g., attitudes, decisions, philosophies, values), (b) who they are (e.g., career development, personal profiles, employment status), and (c) preferences or expectancies for coaches and coaching (e.g. preferred leadership style and behaviors, coaching competencies).

It has been nearly a decade since Woodman (1993) hypothesized that athletic teams would soon include an 'information specialist' to retrieve and translate the rapidly expanding coaching science database. Without a reliable and systematic analysis of the wealth of scientific knowledge on coaching, the information remains disconnected and distant from most of the coaching community. The results of the current project help fill a gap by compiling the diverse body of research and packaging it into one resource.

This article summarizes some of the major trends in coaching science since 1970.

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Phi Epsilon Kappa


 Coach - Athlete Communications

Using Athlete Evaluations to Improve Performance
David Barton, California State University - Fresno

The issue of how coaches communicate with their athletes to improve individual performance and team play is complex. Furthermore, the communication challenges facing coaches at all levels and in all sports are numerous. For example, in their attempts to motivate and communicate with a team or individual, a coach has to communicate to a wide variety of personality types, understand the contextual setting of the coach-athlete relationship, and be conscious of the circumstances surrounding the life of each athlete (Yukelson, 2001).

The first issue that makes coach-athlete communication difficult is that there are numerous personality types that respond to different styles of communication and motivational techniques. Research demonstrates a relationship between athletic performance and the athlete's personality, and there exists an association between personality and player position in some sports (Cox, 2002). Also, there is strong evidence to support the idea that coaches working in team sports will be working with specific personality types, while coaches working in individual sports will be coaching a different set of personality types (Cox, 2002).

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 Motivating Articles
Coaching Strategies used to Motivate Athletes
Brent Hansen, California State University - Fresno

As a past basketball coach at the Division I level, I have often wondered what it is that makes athletes tick. What is the driving force behind their motivation? If harnessed, this priceless bit of knowledge could be used in all arenas of athletics.

Obviously a motivated athlete is going to perform better than a non-motivated one, and only very few coaches have unlocked the mystery of how to motivate their players during competition. What do they do and say to have this success?

This article will attempt to explain the meaning of motivation, as well as use personal experiences coupled with research, to give coaches effective motivational strategies useful in competition.

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