Friday, January 31, 2014

Extra January Post

I sprained my ankle this month and as a result I had to be on crutches and also had to miss two games. I'm not fully recovered but there is only a few games of the season left and this is my last year playing so I want to play as much as possible. I've been icing my ankle everyday so hopefully the bruising disappears soon.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. How can a basketball coach most influence a young person's transition to adulthood?
2. What players have you kept in touch with throughout your career? 
3. Why do you think you still have a relationship with such players? 
4. How can you better yourself as a coach over time? 
5. What changes about a player that leads you to believe they are becoming adults? 
6. What's your coaching philosophy? 
7. What coach have you kept in touch with? 
8. If you had one piece of advice to give to your players what would it be? 
9. What role is a coach suppose to fulfill? 
10. How can a coach substitute as a parental figure? 

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1. I am doing my mentorship at Baldwin Park High School.

2. My contact is Raquel Viramontes.

3. So far I have completed 20 mentorship hours.

4. The 10 hours I most recently completed were very similar to the first 10 hours I completed. They involved simply assisting the coach during their practices.

5. I emailed Piggot my contact's name and number.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Blog 10: Senior Project, The Holiday

1. Over the break, what I did to work on my senior project was continue to help the JV coach run practices, as well as play on my Varsity team.

2. The most important thing I learned was probably how to align my feet (square up) to the basketball in the best manner to increase my shooting percentage. I also learned the more you ask of 15 year old JV girls the less they try.

3. I would interview my first ever basketball coach Anthony, he was an extremely great coach and basically taught me how to play basketball. His words still have an impact on me to this day.