Interview 4 Questions

1. How do you approach a new team?
2. How do you not show favoritism to players? (other coaches and daughters)
3. How do you approach practices?
4. What is most important for a new team to practice?
5. What are the easiest drills to teach young girls?
6. How d you teach skills to girls? (Do you follow the IDEA/ 6 step method?)
7. How do you teach the rules of softball to a group of young girls?
8. How do you approach games?
9. What do you think is most important for a team to work on?
10. What is your philosophy for your team?
11. What are your views on winning and losing?
12. How much should you stress winning and losing on a team?
13. How do you keep girls interested? at practices, etc.?
14. Why do you think players quit after a season?
15. How can you help them so they don't want to quit (if the don't have the skill)?
16. What is the most important thing to teach players?
17. How do you get the girls to 'want to' play?
18. How do you communicate with players? coaches? parents?
19. How do you deal with girls that don't get along? (why they quit)
20. Why do you think girls play? What makes it fun for them? 
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Interview#2 Questions

1. Did you play softball when you were young?
         How did your coaches influence you?
2. What is your approach to a game? (strategy, philosophy)
3. How long have you been coaching?
         How many teams?
4. Can you give any advice to players that are looking to play college ball soon?
5. Have you worked with youth teams?
             Can you give any advice to new coaches for youth teams?

Interview 1 Reflection

What is the most important thing that I learned from the interview and why?

What I learned the most is that what I have been reading is actually true to a lot of people. The philosophy of a coach is very important when it comes to their team, and being able to pass on your knowledge and be a mentor for little girls is a rewarding experience. Even if coaches don't have the same reasons to coach or have had different experiences a good coach always teaches his players about life not just winning and losing.

Interviews

Interveiw 1- Who are you going to interview? Why?
 Brian S. or Milo C. Brian is and umpire and used to coach a lot of younger teams.
Milo has been with softball for a long time and has couched from t-ball 16U teams.

What other questions are you going to ask your interviewee?
Going off what they know about softball I'll ask them how long they've been with part of softball, what got them into it, why do they still do what they do, do they get anything out of it, what do they think about coaching younger girls, how to approach different age groups.