CONSULTANCY REPORT

Consultancy Report



Consultancy Report

Part A

I chose to observe the practices at College for Track and Field. Imainly concentrated on the expanse group with Matt Sherman as the coach. When I arrived at the first practice I discerned Coach Sherman conversing to the team at the starting of their practice. He was going over what they should aim on during their first pathway meet, which was approaching up. His positive attitude stood out the most. He put his focus on having fun. He worried the significance that they work as hard as they can to accomplish their best performance but his final phrases were, Have joy I started to realize what he worried most for his team and that was to achieve the goals they set for themselves.

For both practices I came to the athletes begun out with a warm-up run. They then met as a assembly and had the team captain (Chris Schachter) lead in their stretches. Iobserved strong group cohesion as they stretched conversing about their undertakings from the preceding weekend and the work out that they were going to have. After the stretching Coach Sherman accumulated them simultaneously to explain the workout (both days a hasten workout). As he explained he made certain each of the team constituents appreciated the accurate directions for the speed drills. One of the athletes (Karen Maas) had a question and he patiently responded it and boosted more inquiries to make certain the team knew the accurate workout. He had the lone male distance sprinter do 2 sets of 4x200 meter sprints on the track. He had the women's distance team go out to the ponds to run a 20-minute fartlek in which they ran a minute hard and a minute easy. I observed the male distance runner and when he finished his second set of 200s, Coach Sherman suggested he run one more set of 200s. Chris was tired and was uncertain to do more but he ran them without incidence. When I talked to Chris after his workout I asked him if he agreed with Coach Shermans decision to make him run the extra set of 200s. He said, I was tired but I knew it would help me in the long run for the end of my races. Coach Sherman was my adviser in cross-country and I noticed an unbelievable enhancement throughout the course of the season. He really understands what he is doing out on the track. As far as athlete behaviour and interaction with the coach, I noticed nothing but positive things. Coach Sherman is a juvenile adviser (24) and a student at Cal Poly, but regardless of the closeness in age he organises to support a great deal of esteem from the athletes.

They not only respect him as a coach, but also as a sprinter, and they understand he empathizes with them. They conversed to him about their individual lives as well as running and furthermore had questions about ...