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Cole Prosser

Mrs. DeBock

English 4 Honors

24 March 2017

Essential Question: How does coaching affect how an athlete performs?

Working Thesis: Coaching positively affects how an athlete performs.

Refined Thesis: Coaching affects how an athlete performs by effective strategies and motivation.

Annotated Bibliography

Adams, Mark. "ENABLE: A Solution-Focused Coaching Model for Individual and Team

Coaching." Coaching Psychologist, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2016, pp. 17-23. EBSCOhost.

Every athletes main goal is to find and maintain his best performance while playing. But

sometimes there are factors that prevent this. This article addresses the ways that coaches and

players avoid these. It talks about how athletes need to enter a competition with not just a healthy

body, but also a healthy mindset. It shows how it is necessary to focus on the mental and physical

aspects of their competition. A learning personality is needed to be an athlete, so you can learn

faster and be easier to rehabilitate if injured. Goal-setting is a must to achieve peak performance.

Studying the game is vital to get better, not just physical training. This will help me address the

benefits of mental preparation along with physical preparation.

Gould, Daniel. "Quality Coaching Counts." Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 97, no. 8, 01 May 2016, pp.

13-18. EBSCOhost.

This article focuses on how sports can affect how a child acts in school and as a person.

All of the other articles talk about what sports psychology is and how it will effect performance,
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but this article goes off and provides an interesting viewpoint of how sports can mentally affect

people off the field or court. This article, similar to Further validation Of The Inventory Of

Mental Toughness Factors In Sport (IMTF-S), is more of an experimental article. They do a test

with a controlled group of kids and a group of kids with sports in their daily live. They collect

and compare the data of different grades and different schools. This article will help me show

how sports will mentally affect athletes daily lives and not just physical performance.

Grant, Anthony M. "Reflection, Note-Taking and Coaching: If It Ain't Written, It Ain't

Coaching!." Coaching Psychologist, vol. 12, no. 2, Dec. 2016, pp. 49-58. EBSCOhost.

Coaching is one of the most important factors in an athletes life. This article compares

coaching to a double-edged sword. This shows how a coach can either have a great impact or

horrible impact on not only an athletes performance, but also his mindset. The experience that a

coach has will help him better understand his roles, and a first time coach may unintentionally

put down an athlete. It talks about how good coaches have well thought out plans for their

athletes and how to be an effective coach. This article will help me show what it means to be a

good coach, and how good or bad coaching can affect the mentality of an athlete.

Lowe, Anna. "Coaching." Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, January. EBSCOhost.

The world is greatly impacted by sports. Children across the world play sports everyday.

It is important to the children to have good coaching to give them a good mindset. This article

says how important sports is to a child, but children are quitting youth sports at an alarming rate.
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This says how it is necessary for these kids to have quality coaching and mindsets so they will

enjoy sports. It talks a lot about the environment and mastery climate. This says that a good

climate for kids is the most important part. By climate it means positive coaching so they can

learn and better themselves not just mentally, but physically as well. This article will help me

with the childrens side of psychological effects in sports.

Scales, Peter C. "The Crucial Coaching Relationship." Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 97, no. 8, 01 May

2016, pp. 19-23. EBSCOhost.

Sports psychology is the mental preparation for a sport. This article shows how people

study not only the effects that mental preparation has on an athlete, but also how fans can be

effected by sports. Athletes need to control their mindset of the game in visualization,

concentration, and goal setting. The main goal athletes and spectators need to acquire is to

maintain a positive self-concept and find positive levels of stress, according to the article. It

seems to point out the basic understandings of sports psychology and how athletes prepare. It

points out the factors needed to be obtained by an athlete to better themselves. This article will

help me introduce the concept of sports psychology and how an athlete has to mentally prepare

to succeed.

Tkaczyk, Bart. "Coaching by Numbers." Ivey Business Journal, Nov/Dec2016, p. 2.

EBSCOhost.

This article goes more in debt in the subject of psychology in sports. It talks about

different factors in the development of mental toughness and strength. One is different methods.

This is talking about how there are different ways to get into everyones heads, and this points
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out different ways the brain works and reacts. It then talks about the results of this motivation

and how different people reacted to the different types of motivation. This article is more of an

experimental viewpoint of the effects of psychological preparation on sports, not just how it

helps. This article will help me prove my point with experimental data and factual evidence of

how mental preparation can help physical results in sports.