7. "These folks that do it without a lot of school support are heroic" In response to In response to 6
> The biggest challenges are 1) keeping morale high when >we're losing. 2) doing enough teaching to make sure that we >have a program, and not just one or two good players, while >still offering strategy to make the best of the guys that know >the sport.
I had both of those problems when I coached baseball. Every practice was a struggle to make sure the kids who were new to the sport (or who just sucked) weren't being left behind and, simultaneously making sure weren't just moving backwards to accommodate the worst players.
It's easier in track. A workout is a workout. Not a lot of teaching to be done until fairly late in the game.
>But, with the second child born this July, IDK that >I can put in that extra time (though I was doing a LOT of the >admin work for the team).
Shit, I had a hard time without that even without the kids. The suck thing is that the extra time is almost entirely the stuff that's hateable about the job. So you get to make a barely compensated jump in hours and in undesirable duties. Blargh.
I know you've mentioned this here before but it's still so strange for me to hear. Lacrosse has, for the longest time, been THE prestige sport at the school I work, so while I'm familiar with a team being relatively unsupported, it just sounds alien that it's a lacrosse team.
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