As a coach, what would you do
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Thanks for all the replies. DD's school is a small close knit Catholic 1-8th. These kids have gone to school with each other for 7 or 8 years and played together on the BB team for 4 or 5 and I've coached this girl the whole time. A trooper throughout the length of her father's illness, always with a smile even when I could sense she was carrying this extra weight.
Before Sister tells me we aren't playing (which is a possibility) I have reached out to the other coach and see if we can reschedule.
Thanks everyone for putting your thoughts down about this matter.
Before Sister tells me we aren't playing (which is a possibility) I have reached out to the other coach and see if we can reschedule.
Thanks everyone for putting your thoughts down about this matter.
- Nov 29, 2009
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These are grade school aged girls. You are doing the right thing by cancelling the game and trying to reschedule. I know if a coach called me and explained the situation I would do everything in my power to accommodate the other team.
02Crush
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Yes. It is a game and Life is more important. I think you should use this as a chance to teach (without words) the human value each of the families hold on a team. Yes the sport is important. However, this player's life was wrecked for a short while and she needs the support. Even if that means just being there with no words spoken. Even if it means showing she holds a value outside what she brings to the team.
Especially put in the context of small close Catholic group this is pretty easy, hopefully other coach can reschedule I know I would if I was the other team do my absolute best to reschedule.
Yes... I would cancel.
Its hard to teach a team first mentality, when the "game" takes precedence over the "team"
Its hard to teach a team first mentality, when the "game" takes precedence over the "team"
Well, now that I have the additional information, I would have canceled the game. But, catholic girls wearing their uniforms to a church funeral? No. But, perhaps the dad wasn't Catholic.
My experience is teaching in a Lutheran school.
My experience is teaching in a Lutheran school.
We have rescheduled the game. The funeral was not the conflict but the wake. All involved agreed we should not make anyone decide what to attend. The other team is a Catholic school and was very agreeable.
I will not be asking the girls to wear their uniforms.
I will not be asking the girls to wear their uniforms.
