So You Want to Be a Climbing Coach Series 1

If you haven't yet, please read my previous post: So You Want to Be a Climbing Coach!?

Continued...

But I do want to teach people. I am passionate about improving the lives of the people around me. There are a lot of motivations that I didn't know that I had that Memphis was hard enough to beat out of me. Truthfully, cleaning another person's bodily mess wasn't exactly what I had expected but nonetheless it had to be done so I did it, often. Coaching climbers seemed to be the exception to the rules of my completely unwritten and unspoken job description and responsibilities. Regardless, I was working. And somehow I didn't know what my goal was.

I knew I had to create a USAC team. And that seemed to be where my responsibilities ended. I have enough experience with USA Climbing competition and so I readied my documents and certifications and became a USAC certified coach, gathered information on young climbers and their parents interested in a youth team, publicized my intentions on social media with the help of some of our corporate team and viola... instant climbing team!

Within weeks, I had acquired a tentative roster of over forty youth climbers. Things almost got out of hand before they even started! I was overwhelmed quickly and recruited the help of several new assistant coaches. All of them needed coaching training and some of them were not yet fundamentally sound climbers themselves.

A few tasks became clear: train my new coaching staff, organize my team by age and skill level and begin to account for each of these to my superiors.

To be continued...