Starting to do my search I just searched for a more specific direction that I wanted to go with my paper. I am trying to develop a question that my paper will address and follow. The first place I found when searching was a book called Sport Psychology for Coaches by Damon Burton. It was intriguing to read. It talked about developing a coaching philosophy and why it is important for coaches to do that. While talking about coaching psychology it had an interesting diagram of where you would set your priorities as a coach from excellence centered through neutral to winning centered.
The next part gave examples of where certain coaches might lie on the chart. The first coach was the legend of Bobby Knight. Though having many wins does not seem like his priorities were for his players to be excellence centered but more for the winning factor of the spectrum. The coach that they praised on was coach John Wooden, the famous UCLA basketball coach who valued development and learning over winning. Yet Wooden had a impressive coaching career with taking his team to the NCAA championship 10 times in 12 years, 88 consecutive wins, and numerous all-american and NBA players.
What gives making his players value success of the player over the success over the team? Wooden has a coaching philosophy pyramid. Building blocks on what will make a successful program. Wooden had a great quote, "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best you are capable of becoming"
I would like to stive in becoming a great coach with the right values such as John Wooden.
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