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  1. mlopez100

    Clay, I really enjoyed reading your paper. The part that caught my attention was that part of your PLC plan for athletes to journal write. I know that reflecting on your progress and experiences makes a great impact in team building. As coaches and players evaluate the program, they are able to pinpoint what strategies are working and what may need tweaking. By implementing team building activities, it allows for personal and team growth. Having that foundation of trust in a team or in a faculty in my case is so crucial to the success of a plc.

  2. jbrooks1

    I like how you start your program with clearly defining the culture and rules of the team. When players don’t understand the rules and ways things work around a team, is when problems start to occur. I also liked how each player attends building exercises, this gives the team a chance as a whole to be around each other outside of workouts and things in that nature.

  3. cbriseno4

    Clay, I enjoyed the fact that you implemented a culture of unity. As a coach, you want to feel like your team is unified from the coaching staff down to every athlete on your team. When there is a culture with sense of unity this then becomes contagious to the community around you as well. Team building is something that is crucial to help build a program. With team building it magnifies unity and builds team chemistry and trust. This is something I will take with me as I begin to coach in the near future. The reason for team building is to not eliminate bad teammates, but to help those teammates grow and understand the importance of team work and unity. Along with magnifying unity, you touched base on goal setting being most effective. As a coach it is important that we use this just as much as we ask our athletes so that we may be of great example. Setting goals will push our is athletes to reach something not by themselves, but as a team. Athletes need to feel connected and you went over that and its importance. I found this paper to be very valuable to my career in the near future. Great job, very insightful!

  4. gperezesquivel

    Clay,

    I thoroughly enjoyed your paper because of how we both have a appreciate for the “small” things that make a “big” difference at the end of the day. We see this everyday as Graduate Assistants being the closest in age to our athletes and we help set that culture that climate to help our teams succeed. Along with that, I believe your action plan is very feasible and beneficial.

  5. jphillips17

    Clay,
    What sorts of interventions would you try and use to develop team cohesion if your team was struggling? Have you ever been on or seen a team that struggles to get along? When in the military, the conversation is always about being family or an unbreakable team. The strategies used to develop cohesion weren’t always comfortable for the participants but usually accomplished the objective. This is a concern that goes beyond just sports but also into numerous environments. Good topic and strategies to develop that desired teamwork.

  6. sfernandez

    Team work and team building go together. You describe creating a culture of unity will lead to success and also will creating a positive team culture. In addition, team building interventions focused on goal-setting are the most effective than other approaches. Then results were tested. As you stated team work and team building does prepare one for the real world. Your paper was insightful and realistic.

  7. ephillips8

    Clay, great paper. You had several great points, and one strategy that stood out to me was having your athletes keep progress journals. When I was an athlete, I have been part of a team that kept journals, we would write in them daily. We wrote about our workouts, our struggles, our accomplishments, our attitudes, questions, etc. we basically let our thoughts flow out onto the paper and it helped a lot. Periodically our coach would take the journals which can be a great way for the coaches to understand you better as an athlete and to track progress as well. I always enjoyed team building activities, they help unify a team.

  8. ksalinas9

    Clay,

    i found your paper to correlate closely with my paper in the sense, our main goal was to build team unity in order to be successful on and off the court. When I was looking up interventions for my paper, team-building was the first strategy that came up because of how beneficial it has proven to be. I can defiantly see how team building can help create a safe welcoming environment for all athletes on the team.

  9. ataramona

    Clay,
    I think that this topic is key for any team to be successful. I think that your PLC action plan is a great idea to improve team chemistry. I have noticed that by having players set their own goals, they become more accountable and responsible. I also like the idea of the players reflecting on what’s going on that day/week. I think that if we, as youth coaches, can implement this thought process while the athlete is young, then this thought process will become more natural. I feel like there should also be some individual check-in meetings throughout this process along with end of season meetings to allow a conversation between the coach and the athlete to get on the same page. By allowing a conversation to occur, it could help foster an open environment for all athletes to be comfortable in. Good job!

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