Theory of Coaching (EDEX 171)
3 Semester Hours of Graduate Credit
COURSE OVERVIEW
Theory of Coaching offers video segments that reveal the differences in various levels of competitive sport. Presenters point out the professional and personal roles all coaches must exhibit, and they offer some practical advice about how to use these roles to make the sporting experience a positive one for all.
Segments include:
- Discover how a coach’s self-awareness is essential to responsibilities in various athletic competitive arenas.
- Present and promote the youth sport athletes “Bill of Rights”.
- Investigate the health related and skill related components of physical fitness.
- Apply the eight exercise physiology principles of physical training.
- Investigate the relationship between arousal and motor performance in athletic settings
- Identify how relaxing and energizing techniques help regulate arousal for optimal athletic performance.
- Recognize emerging issues in sport law and health.
This course is available on VHS.
INSTRUCTORS
Tara VanDerveerHead Women’s Basketball Coach, Stanford University
Head Coach of the Gold Medal-Winning 1996 Olympic Team
Dr. Jan Coakley
Sociology Professor, Center for the Study of Sport and Leisure, University of Colorado
Karlos Kirby
Olympic Athlete
Ricardo Patton
Head Men’s Basketball Coach, University of Colorado
Rob Ash
Head Football Coach, Drake University
Lynn King
Former Athletic Director, Drake University
George Wares
Head Softball Coach, Central College, Pella Iowa
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