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A lot of coaches quit after their first year of coaching.
I call them 1YOYNCB coaches — as in ONE YEAR, ONLY YEAR, NEVER COMING BACK.
So why do they quit?
I've done a lot of consulting work over the years and I can promise you — when I analyse my surveys asking 1YOYNCB coaches to give feedback after they've left the sport, the top three reasons are:
Dealing with the parents.
Feeling alone, isolated and unsupported by the club and the sport.
Not knowing how to make training fun and enjoyable — "losing" the kids, discipline issues.
In 25 years of doing these "EXIT" surveys with 1YOYNCB coaches, I've never read feedback that says:
"I left because I didn't understand how to improve a child's VO2 max."
"I quit coaching because I wasn't sure how ATP was regenerated in the body."
Never. Not once.
We keep giving first year coaches a pile of information they don't need — and we don't give them the skills and expertise they actually do need.
How would you change things for the 1YOYNCB coaches in your sport?
