Taking the X´s and O´s out of Coaching: Intra-, and interpersonal Development Guide for female basketball coaches
Ruokonen, Emmi (2019)
Ruokonen, Emmi
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904306881
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904306881
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In the past years, the sport industry and marketing have begun to introduce women´s professional sports closer to the level of the men´s professional sports. As the level of the competition rises, it also provides more paid positions amongst their coaching staffs.
With gender equity has been slowly implemented amongst the athletes, what about the coaches?
The guide for female basketball coaches targets the new and up-coming basketball coaches who have deep interest to the sport and desire to pursue on coaching higher levels. The guide allows the coaches to view themselves and their own development rather than the player development or tactical-technical side of the sport. That said the X´s and O´s of basketball are left out of the guide and have been replaced with the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that are been required from coaches. As its more “unique” form, the guide is first of its kind to be made for female basketball coaches in Europe that is to be contributed to public sharing allowing it to reach more of its target group and to raise awareness on the topic to both female and male coaches. Guide itself covers eight developmental chapters that can be viewed as essential key points in the development of a young coach. As discussed on the guide, knowledge is everywhere in the internet these days but often restricted under membership fees or paid possessions of educational sites. The key idea is to provide up-dated data and knowledge to help the retrieval of these factors within
simplistic English rather than “scientific” wording.
With the theoretical part of the thesis, an introductory to the history of women’s basketball and an inside to three short biographies of female coaches from different centuries are offered to give an idea of the development of the sport as well as what drives coaches towards the profession.
With gender equity has been slowly implemented amongst the athletes, what about the coaches?
The guide for female basketball coaches targets the new and up-coming basketball coaches who have deep interest to the sport and desire to pursue on coaching higher levels. The guide allows the coaches to view themselves and their own development rather than the player development or tactical-technical side of the sport. That said the X´s and O´s of basketball are left out of the guide and have been replaced with the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that are been required from coaches. As its more “unique” form, the guide is first of its kind to be made for female basketball coaches in Europe that is to be contributed to public sharing allowing it to reach more of its target group and to raise awareness on the topic to both female and male coaches. Guide itself covers eight developmental chapters that can be viewed as essential key points in the development of a young coach. As discussed on the guide, knowledge is everywhere in the internet these days but often restricted under membership fees or paid possessions of educational sites. The key idea is to provide up-dated data and knowledge to help the retrieval of these factors within
simplistic English rather than “scientific” wording.
With the theoretical part of the thesis, an introductory to the history of women’s basketball and an inside to three short biographies of female coaches from different centuries are offered to give an idea of the development of the sport as well as what drives coaches towards the profession.