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Your role as a coach
People play Basketball for a variety of reasons. As a Basketball coach you should consider why your players are participating and what you want out of coaching.
In the activity below, explore why people engage in sport by dragging the slider (Fern) across.
This influences how you approach your coaching during training and competition and the goals you and your players will set for the season.
Think back to the coaches that you may have had when you were a player or participated in other sports.
What sort of impact did they have on your life?
There may be one coach in particular who stands out more than the others in your memory.
What was it about that coach that set him or her apart from the others?
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