Public Affection of Homosexuals
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Public Affection of Homosexuals
Exemplifying Good Teamwork
Teamwork, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as being cooperative effort, brings good synergy amongst a group of softball players. A well-balanced, well-functioning team, coach included, should come together and form a bond that nothing can dissolve. Teams are like families. Nothing should be able to destroy that mindset.
From personal experience, my high school softball team functioned like a family. We ate together. We stayed the night over each others’ houses, we partied together, and we even shopped together. We didn’t allow any room for negativity. If anything went wrong on the field, we brushed it off and kept in our minds that we had to do better the next time. The same went for us off the field. We always tried to seek out the positive aspects of a negative problem. We were all about being highly effective on an off the field.
Throughout our tenure on the softball team, we had a series of coaches. Each year, we grew to each coach’s standards. Our most recent coach, Coach Downing, was the worst, in everyone’s opinion. She had the worst attitude. She was the most self-centered person that could ever coach a team. It seemed as though she would only recognize herself as being our coach when we won a game. There were many of times that we lost and she just made us practice harder and all the blame was placed on us. Team work is cooperative. No one person can loose a game, just as well as a whole team can’t loose a game without the coach’s involvement.
As players, we saw this as an opportunity to come together and basically coach ourselves. We understood that we weren’t exemplifying teamwork by not including our coach in what we discussed as a