“You need to help student athletes help you win championships.” – Galwin Fabian
Every school wants to win. Every school wants to have a trophy. Every school wants fame. Yet only few schools understand that, in order to, they need to put the right pieces together; they need jocks that can deliver, they need the effective programs to help them, and they need an elite-level head coach on the team.
In this article, I’ll share what I learned from the past five years that I played for college the things I think every school needs to have in order to win.
Athletic Program
Implement a good recruitment program. To win a championship you need good players and to have good players you need to have a good recruitment program. Because if you don’t have a good recruitment program, it’s almost as good as saying you’ll never recruit good players. But still, few schools implement a good recruitment program and we can understand why, because it’s costly. Schools need to shell out more money for it because they need to send out more scouts in different places to look for potential athletes.
Schools like FEU, Letran and UST goes to different province just to look for potential players. Often times, their scouts and coaches goes to regional tournaments and Palarong Pambansa where they recruit athletes that finish at the top.
How does it help? Let’s take a look at Cleveland Cavaliers for example, LeBron James is a great player but there’s no one who he can truly rely on if he’s covered. One good player may be able to do it but it’s hard. Recruit good players and then look for championships.
Provide effective training program. Even if your players are good they still need to improve. That’s the beauty of sports, there is a certain level of competitiveness at any one time and it’s raised every now and then.
How does it help? Eventually, with an effective training program, we’ll soon see good athlete’s evolve into (or even better) Micheal Jordan, Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods or Paeng Nepumuceno.
The importance of a coach. It doesn’t matter if it’s a singles or a team competition, every athlete knows how important a coach is. A good coach knows how to use players effectively, they know how to train athletes to reach their full potential and they know what to do on every situations in the game.
Provide athlete’s proper nutritional diet. Proper diet, including carbohydrates and proteins intake provides the required energy athletes needs in order to excel.
Raise school spirit. There’s a reason why cheer leading was invented. Players needs to be cheered, they need to be motivated. Raising school spirit raises a player’s morale and their athletic skills during the game. Let the students in your school watch the games of their classmates, let them be proud of themselves.
Academic Program
By far, the most often neglected and the most important program every school should provide to their athletes.
I personally believe people think that the better a student athlete plays the lesser his performance are in academics. People equate athletic skills to academic skills like that. I confess I do and I’m afraid that it is partly true.
This goes back to how student athletes manage their time, how they balance school and sports. But first, let me ask you a question, suppose you’re an athlete and you’re a top-caliber player and you or your team have a great chance of winning a championship in the league your school is a member of. What would you do more, hone your skills or study your notes? Suppose there is a high paying professional league waiting for you when you perform exemplary well during your college years as an amateur athlete, what would you do more, hone your skills or study your notes? Conversely, if there is no professional league in your sports, what would you do? Would you still prefer to do more of sports than academics?
Personally, I think that whatever path our athletes choose to take, schools should provide them with the approriate academic program that suits them .
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