Coaching
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ESP coaches for a variety of sports, including football,
basketball, baseball and soccer.
After a rocky start, the coach-for-credit program
drew seven ESP basketball coaches this term. It will
continue next term with soccer and baseball.
ESP holds its first meeting for interested soccer
coaches tonight at 7:00 in Jefferson Middle School’s
large gym.
Due to its newness, not many students know of the
program. Typical is the experience of Lea Davies, who
coached an eighth-grade boys basketball team.
“I’d been coaching for two weeks,’’ says Davies,
"and I saw the ESCAPE desk. So I stopped by and just
asked, ‘Hey, can I get credit for coaching?’ They said
sure.”
That credit does not come easily, however. Most
coaches work eight to ten hours per week, with practices
two nights and games every weekend. They are required
to put in three hours per week per credit.
‘‘Sometimes you have other things you want to do,
and you can’t because you have a basketball commit
ment,” Davies says.
First-term ESCAPE coaches are required to attend
a two-hour seminar class once a week, where topics
such as positive reinforcement, communication skills
and problem solving are discussed. Then, in addition,
there’s the paperwork.
“We have a more complete written record than any
other ESCAPE department," says Katie McLaughlin,
an ex-ESCAPE coordinator who helped to implement
the coaches' program last fall.
Each ESCAPE coach is required to fill out an orien
tation sheet stating what goals they want to achieve and
what they want to learn. Coaches keep a dex-umentation
of hours worked, and complete a project.
A project is something permanent that can be left
with ESP. says Shelley Carr, ESCAPE co-director. It is
a learning tool "designed to benefit the agency and the
volunteer.” Past projects have ranged from taking
teams to University basketball games to compiling
coaching handbooks. A project proposal must be sub
mitted beforehand, and at the end of the term a project
evaluation is required.
"ESCAPE does have a lot of paperwork," admits
Christa Rasor, community services coordinator. “But
the only way we have to evaluate anything is con
ferences, project proposals and the like.”
Some program participants say they wanted to coach
anyway, even before knowing of the opportunity for
credit.
“I did it because someone had done it for me, says
Dan Gentry, who coached a seventh-grade boys team.
“I grew up with ESP... .This was my way to give
something back to the program.”
“Most student coaches are very dedicated,” says
Dave Bashaw, ESP agency supervisor. “Most of them
are the type who say ‘gee, I’d like to coach and here’s
my opportunity.’ They work very hard and do an ex
tremely good job.”
The ESCAPE/ESP program was born largely
because of McLaughlin. As an ESP umpire for five
years, she watched a lot, she says, “and not just the
pitch.
“It’s great that volunteer coaches are out there, but
some of them don’t know how to teach kids. So I
thought if there was some kind of coaches’ training,
perhaps the situation would improve.”
Those discussions led the pair to approach ESCAPE
late in the fall of 1983 with the idea of a coaches’ pro
gram for credit. Ten applied during the program's first
term, McLaughlin says. “Out of 260 (ESP) coaches,
that’s a goodly amount. So it turned out to be a good
source of coaches.”
McLaughlin says the first coaches’ class “had to
prove the program's validity.” Eventually, after much
documentation and paperwork, ESCAPE staffers
became convinced that coaching was indeed worthy of
becoming a part of the ESCAPE curriculum.
At first, students weren’t convinced that the
ESCAPE curriculum had anything to do with coaching.
The seminars, which Rasor admits cover “generic”
topics, have been described by various coaches as “ir
relevant” and “a waste of time.”
Rasor senses the discontent. Part of the problem,
she says, is that coaches are more independent than most
ESCAPE volunteers, which makes some of the seminar
topics seem irrelevant. But she adds that although they
may not seem relevant at the time, later on in life they
may apply.
Still, Rasor says, ESCAPE is working on tailoring
the coaching seminar to coaches' needs. "Coaches
aren’t like any other agency or volunteers we’ve ever
had in ESCAPE. It’s taken us this long to figure out
what their needs are and how they fit in with
ESCAPE_It won’t ever be perfect, but it’s getting
better.”
And, despite the problems with the seminars,
coaches continue to turn out. “After seeing how much
fun it is,” Motschenbacher says, “I’d do it again for no
credit.”
Although coaching grade schoolers in the Eugene Sports Program is a lot of work, University students get the
opportunity to earn credit through ESCAPE while gaining valuable experience.
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