re: Nerves as a Coach

I used to get very nervous when I coached my daughter’s soccer team. I’m usually pretty hard on myself performance wise and I didn’t know anything about soccer. Just cared too much and wanted the girls to have a good time.

I didn’t know how to play the game and a lot of the teams were completely stacked with multiple “assistant” coaches who had really good daughters. I had a bunch of new players and they’d get pretty discouraged early in the year. Learned a lot and we went from losing 10-0 to like 1 or 2-0 by the end of the year, even had a few draws and a win

Was very rewarding after it was all said and done because the kids stuck with it, improved and the improvement was pretty obvious.