The coach that had the most impact on me was Coach Dave. He was my coach in middle school for the local YMCA team and the lessons he taught me then stuck with me through high school and still to this day. The relationship that we had a “master and apprentice” feel to it. As a child in middle school I was stubborn and hated when people told me what to do. He was almost certainly one of the first people to make such a huge impact on me that I actually listened to what he said. The words that he spoke to me that had such an impact was that I was “un-coachable”. Once I had time and the emotional capacity think about his words, I knew that they were true and something had to
The coach that had the most impact on me was Coach Dave. He was my coach in middle school for the local YMCA team and the lessons he taught me then stuck with me through high school and still to this day. The relationship that we had a “master and apprentice” feel to it. As a child in middle school I was stubborn and hated when people told me what to do. He was almost certainly one of the first people to make such a huge impact on me that I actually listened to what he said. The words that he spoke to me that had such an impact was that I was “un-coachable”. Once I had time and the emotional capacity think about his words, I knew that they were true and something had to