What do you think?
Rate this book
Dear Coach
Through the lens of athletes’ experiences and established research, Dear Coach shows coaches how to create higher-quality coach-athlete relationships that not only achieve better performance outcomes, but optimal well-being for all parties in and outside of sport.
Sara Erdner, PhD, CMPC asked athletes one question: What do you wish you could have told your coach but, for whatever reason, never did? Athletes responded to this question via confidential letters, providing a wealth of knowledge for coaches, sport administrators, and all who care for athletes. From heartfelt thank-you letters to painful accusations and everything in between, Dear Coach gives athletes a rare platform in the sports reform debate, beginning a much-needed conversation between athletes and coaches directly.
Yet, the communication problems in sport are not just personal but systemic. Dear Coach, also gives coaches and administrators the opportunity to write their own Dear Coach letter and explore how their own coaches may have influenced their current practice. Grounded in research and compassion for athletes and coaches alike, Dear Coach gives coaches practical tools to create higher-quality coach-athlete relationships that will not only achieve better performance outcomes, but optimal well-being for all parties inside and outside sport.
Sara Erdner, PhD, CMPC asked athletes one question: What do you wish you could have told your coach but, for whatever reason, never did? Athletes responded to this question via confidential letters, providing a wealth of knowledge for coaches, sport administrators, and all who care for athletes. From heartfelt thank-you letters to painful accusations and everything in between, Dear Coach gives athletes a rare platform in the sports reform debate, beginning a much-needed conversation between athletes and coaches directly.
Yet, the communication problems in sport are not just personal but systemic. Dear Coach, also gives coaches and administrators the opportunity to write their own Dear Coach letter and explore how their own coaches may have influenced their current practice. Grounded in research and compassion for athletes and coaches alike, Dear Coach gives coaches practical tools to create higher-quality coach-athlete relationships that will not only achieve better performance outcomes, but optimal well-being for all parties inside and outside sport.
218 pages, Paperback
Published June 22, 2021
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
January 4, 2021
A great collection of letters from athletes detailing what they wish they would have told their coach. Book is divided into sections of the good (thank you letters), the bad (atheletes wishing the coach could have done more), and a call to action asking the reader to write their own Dear Coach letter. The best part is when Dr. Erdner gives us her own Dear Coach letter allowing her self to be vulnerable and a glimpse into what she struggled as an athlete. Overall an amazing book that makes you reflect on how your relationship with your coaches growing up shaped you into the person you are now.
December 3, 2021
After reading 30 or 40 letters written by other people, the “author” talked about having writers block. I find that odd. She hadn’t written anything other than changing pronouns trying to mask any defining characteristics. Which she took so far it was nearly comical, but ended up just being really annoying while reading.
I would not recommend this book.
I would not recommend this book.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews