Green Careers
By: Max F
Coaches and Scouts Duties
Coaches teach amateur and professional athletes the skills they need to succeed at their sport. Scouts look for new players, rating their strengths and weaknesses as possible recruits. Many coaches scout out new talent. Plan all practices and what they're going to do. Think of strategies to use in games. Keep records of players performance.
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantage for scouts is that you get to pick want player you want to come and play for your team. But the player also has to want to because, if he/she is good they'll probably have multiple options from scouts. Advantages for coaches are that they can schedule when his team has practice. And other events like that. But not games. But the disadvantages for coaches is that they have to give up a lot of there own time. Like away from there family when there games are farther away.
Here Are Some Famous Coaches
Vince Lombardi
He coached the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967. Then the Washington Redskins in 1969. He never had a losing season in his coaching years.
Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K)
He coached the Duke Blue Devils since 1980. He was an assistant coach of the Dream Team also.
Pat Summitt
She coaches Tennessee's Lady Vols basketball team. She is the most winningest coach in the NCAA basketball history of either men's or women's team in any division.
Salary and Education To Do The Job Successfully?
Lets Take A Look
The average salary for a major sport is about $74,160 thousand dollars a year. One the other hand if your a high school coach average salary is about $3,000. To be a coach you need at least a high school diploma. Also you need some knowledge in what ever sport your going to coach.
Why Coaching Is a Green Career?
Well, say if your a football coach and you have to maintain the field. How will you keep the grass green? How will you kept the field from flooding if it rains? Or when will you have your practices? You have to look at the weather. Because you cant have you players practicing in heavy snow and crazy wind.
Interesting Fact
Most coachs don't do it for the money. They do it because they just love the sport there coaching.