slo’s MONDAY 10/6 poll - Coaching

[slo]

Today is National Coaches Day in the U.S. and it makes me reflect on all the years I coached my DD22 with softball. Coaching anything, it doesn’t have to be just a sport, is so rewarding. It can also be exhausting and very demanding, but it’s worth it. Not everyone is interested in coaching, which is ok, there’s a lot of things I’m not interested in doing too. On this National coaches day today, I’m curious to know how many of you have been or are a coach now. So tell us today…..


Have you ever been a coach?
If yes……Did you coach your child, or did you have no child of yours on your teams?
(multiple choice)




For Me……As I mentioned above, I was one of my DD22’s softball coaches. I never planned on doing this, but when she started at 7yrs old, the town ball program needed a coach, so my DH and I volunteered. Then when she went to travel ball at 12yrs old, I was asked to be one of the assistant coaches, so I remained in the dug out until she graduated high school. I did not coach her high school team or college team. I was a coach for 11 years and it was a wonderful time of my life and I miss it every day. When my DD left to play for college, I was asked to remain with the softball program and continue coaching, but I decided to step away from it so I could have my weekends free to go watch my DD’s college games. As much as I miss it, I don’t have any regrets from retiring from coaching when I did. Below is one of my favorite pictures of my DD and I - this is from 2017, so my DD was 14yrs old.

 

[Kitty 34]

I helped coach a softball team years ago when my oldest DS (45) was ten. That son now coaches my Grandson (8) in flag football. He also help coached basketball at Lake State in northern Michigan.

My brothers are both retired basketball coaches.

 

[leebee]

DD wasn't in sports; she was a dancer, in the studio four hours a day, 5 days a week, usually with 6 hours of rehearsals on the weekends. Obviously, no coaches here... but I was the costume mistress for her company for 8 years as well as the assistant to the artistic director and production manager for many, many shows. Different 'sport' but same level of planning and dedication, I believe, as being a coach.

 

[tazdev3225]

I was coaching before I even had kids. I started with being an assistant for a softball team, Then I coached soccer, a sport I knew very little about, but they needed the help. I was an assistant coach for my husband's city team. It was different teams from city employees and they needed a scorekeeper. I ended up being the assistant coach and we won back-to-back-to-back championships. I coached T-ball, softball and baseball for the next 30 years or so for my kids and then my grandkids.

I quit when I was given a team destined to lose by the organization I had been with for years. One of the parents told me about it at the end of our season. We lost every single game, to be expected when one of the best players on the team was my granddaughter and she couldn't even throw a ball correctly. I couldn't deal with the politics and back-stabbing I watched take place over the last couple of years. Wed may have lost every game but I was never prouder of a team. Those girls worked hard and by the end of the season they had improved so much that we lost our final game by only 1 run. A vast improvement over being 10 run ruled by the second inning in the first few games.

I am very content to be the grandmom on the sidelines cheering on my grandsons and taking pictures now.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I was an Olympic hopeful swimmer whose career ended due to injury. I coached swimming for probably 20 years after my career ended. Neither bonus daughter was a swimmer, so I never coached them (I did teach them both to swim). I quit because it just became too much and I didn’t have the time. I sometimes think I might get back into it when I retire and I do miss it.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Below is one of my favorite pictures of my DD and I - this is from 2017, so my DD was 14yrs old.

Great picture, Sandy. It says a lot there, among them, great memories for both of you.

I was an assistant coach, a helper coach, for Vince's Little League team for several years, back in the mid 80's. Mostly working the the dugout with the kids, field setup stuff, take down, etc. Glad I was able to hrlo out, do some of my part back then. Good memories.

 

[soccerdad72]

I coached both my boys in soccer a couple years - early on when they were little and then a year or two during their early travel days. Once they moved on to club soccer, the coaching was mostly done by paid professionals who had a better clue as to what they were doing than me.

I now referee soccer, however, so I'm still involved with the sport. One that, ironically, I barely played when I was a kid.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

I was never a coach but our three sons were all certified bowling coaches and oldest son is a high school basketball coach for a small private school. They made it to the state semi finals in their section the other year. He loves the game and each year it’s different.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I voted other because I wasn't a sports coach, but I was a Den Mother for Scouts.

 

[Magical2017]

I never coached, but DH coached when our boys were on baseball and soccer rec teams.

 

[firefly_ris]

I don't but my husband coaches baseball and basketball, and has previously coached soccer.