How should young coaches effectively reach out to established coaches to find mentors?

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Caryl Smith Gilbert · Answer

I think young coaches should just reach out to the people that they think or believe have been successful, and try to ask them questions, and try to develop a relationship with them. And then eventually, ask that person to be your mentor, and see what they say. But keep in mind, you have to be willing to listen. You have to be willing to take positive feedback and criticism. And you can go a long way. I think a mentor is absolutely necessary if you want to reach the top of your career or the top of your profession in your sport.

Jeremy Fischer · Answer

I think is a great question. I think that to reach out to establish coaches, I think I just establish coaches. Also try to find coaches who are leaders in coaching education, giving back ones, who do a lot of talks ones who efficiently have education as their base, and then can also have show you success, in their ability, to coach athletes because some coaches are great at teaching and they've created ucation and there's no application and Other coaches, they tend to be pretty decent coaches solid, but they may not know the sides in the wise to what you can still learn from everybody. But definitely, if you're looking for a mentor, someone who has both, those has probably going to be the best mentor and the most willing to help.

Fred Vergnoux · Answer

It's a very good question. You reminds me when I was young and the first time I went to visit coaches in America, you just need to insist because sometimes, let's say the top coaches, they are quite busy, and they don't necessarily a reply Mains, or contacts, but just insist, insist insist, and perhaps. Yeah, maybe a good way to do that, is to show up on the full side and just stick around the coach.

Rowdy Gaines · Answer

Hey, yes. Patrick the great thing about our sport Is we are a family. I think there's like 400,000 us a registered swimmers in this in this country and probably eight or ten thousand coaches. At least they're all brothers and sisters, they're all fathers and mothers and I'm not talking about blood relation. I'm talking about family being if you're an established coach, they for the most part, not every single one. But for the most part, they all want to give back, they all want to do that mentoring to Young up-and-coming coaches because they know that in the end, it's what's best for our sport? I'll give you an example. David Marsh, very dear friend of mine who had coached the 2016 Olympic team. One of the most successful in history. He's a guy that will constantly and consistently. Mentor, those young coaches out there and you can only look at his coaching tree and see the amazing coaches out there that have all coached under him but it's not just the coaches that coached under him, he gives advice and counsel to coaches anytime anywhere if they come up and ask them. So there are hundreds of David Marsh has out there that are established and and legendary and it doesn't matter how how much or how little they been around the sport, they always want to give back. So don't ever be afraid to walk up to a coach and ask for advice.

Kim Brackin · Answer

How should you young coaches effectively, reach out to establish coaches to find mentors. While I've got two things in mind, one, there are some mentorship groups. There's some Summits and things like that where you can be a part of especially for women. And there are some like, I know, USA swimming has some leadership stuff and I think even at like aska those clinics, there are some Mentor ship groups College swimming Association. Has it so getting within those groups and finding the mentorship. Line and secondly right here on any question you have so many great coaches. Amazing athletes that are willing to answer any question that you've asked. That's a mentor right there, get on here, ask ask away and you're going to get a number of different answers and then you can pick and choose which one works best for you. Any question? That's probably your best bet for mentorship.

Emma Pallant-Browne · Answer

Yeah, I think this is really important, I think that. Yeah, it's the way that you're going to learn. If ideally, if there's someone near you and you can actually shadow be there. They can also watch you. I think it's it's that's the most ideal case. So if you research and you find some good coaches around, you reach out to them, I always say like what's the harm and in asking and certainly if someone reached out to me, I would always get back in and give what I can because they know how much I've been given over the years. Ears. And yeah, so you ask 20 people and one replies. Then that's that's your one. That's that's all you need is one reply and to be honest, if they're open to developing new coaches then then they're probably actually the best type of Coach out there.

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"How should young coaches effectively reach out to established coaches to find mentors?"