RE: My greatest sports memories from my own life (part 1)
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Great post. I agree that being an adult is sometimes the only criteria for being a coach. I got stuck coaching my daughter's track team for two years, from 5th to 7th grade. Despite my protests for having zero experience. I never participated in track as a kid and hardly watched it in the Olympics. The guilt her Catholic school laid on me was severe and I eventually gave in. Ultimately it was a good experience. But I felt bad for the kids because I had no idea what I was doing.
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well that's good to hear that you stepped up and did the job even though you were not qualified. I bet you did some research to try to help as much as possible. I remember one of my soccer coaches as a youth had a book with him that was something along the lines of "how to coach soccer"... later on he revealed that he never played the sport and had no idea what he was doing. There was no strategy to his orders and basically he was just trying to give everyone some field time.
Yes, I certainly did some research. YouTube was helpful. The other coaches in the league helped me out too. They knew our schools track program was in a bind.