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Cole Prosser
Mrs. DeBock
English 4 Honors
23 February 2017
Essential Question: Does good coaching and mental preparation help physical performance in
sports?
Working Thesis: Good coaching and mental preparation helps physical performance in sports.
Refined Thesis: Good coaching and mental preparation helps physical performance in sports .
Annotated Bibliography
Gould, Daniel. "Quality Coaching Counts." Phi Delta Kappan 97.8 (2016): 13-18. ERIC. Web.
21 Feb. 2017.
Coaching is one of the most important factors in an athletes life. This article compares
coaching to a double-edged sword. This shows how a coach can either have a great impact or
horrible impact on not only an athletes performance, but also his mindset. The experience that a
coach has will help him better understand his roles, and a first time coach may unintentionally
put down an athlete. It talks about how good coaches have well thought out plans for their
athletes and how to be an effective coach. This article will help me show what it means to be a
good coach, and how good or bad coaching can affect the mentality of an athlete.
This article focuses on how sports can affect how a child acts in school and as a person.
All of the other articles talk about what sports psychology is and how it will effect performance,
but this article goes off and provides an interesting viewpoint of how sports can mentally affect
people off the field or court. This article, similar to Further validation Of The Inventory Of
Mental Toughness Factors In Sport (IMTF-S), is more of an experimental article. They do a test
with a controlled group of kids and a group of kids with sports in their daily live. They collect
and compare the data of different grades and different schools. This article will help me show
how sports will mentally affect athletes daily lives and not just physical performance.
Ohuruogu, Ben, Ugwuanyi I. Jonathan, and Ugwu Jude Ikechukwu. "Psychological Preparation
For Peak Performance In Sports Competition." Journal Of Education And Practice 7.12
Every athletes main goal is to find and maintain his best performance while playing. But
sometimes there are factors that prevent this. This article addresses the ways that coaches and
players avoid these. It talks about how athletes need to enter a competition with not just a healthy
body, but also a healthy mindset. It shows how it is necessary to focus on the mental and physical
aspects of their competition. A learning personality is needed to be an athlete, so you can learn
faster and be easier to rehabilitate if injured. Goal-setting is a must to achieve peak performance.
Studying the game is vital to get better, not just physical training. This will help me address the
Prichard, Alison, and Joe Deutsch. "The Effects Of Motivational Climate On Youth Sport
Participants." The Physical Educator SI (2015): 200. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Feb.
2017.
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The world is greatly impacted by sports. Children across the world play sports everyday.
It is important to the children to have good coaching to give them a good mindset. This article
says how important sports is to a child, but children are quitting youth sports at an alarming rate.
This says how it is necessary for these kids to have quality coaching and mindsets so they will
enjoy sports. It talks a lot about the environment and mastery climate. This says that a good
climate for kids is the most important part. By climate it means positive coaching so they can
learn and better themselves not just mentally, but physically as well. This article will help me
Smith, Shelby Hinkle. "Sport Psychology." Research Starters: Education (Online Edition)
Sports psychology is the mental preparation for a sport. This article shows how people
study not only the effects that mental preparation has on an athlete, but also how fans can be
effected by sports. Athletes need to control their mindset of the game in visualization,
concentration, and goal setting. The main goal athletes and spectators need to acquire is to
maintain a positive self-concept and find positive levels of stress, according to the article. It
seems to point out the basic understandings of sports psychology and how athletes prepare. It
points out the factors needed to be obtained by an athlete to better themselves. This article will
help me introduce the concept of sports psychology and how an athlete has to mentally prepare
to succeed.
Stonkus, Mark A., and Kenneth D. Royal. "Further Validation Of The Inventory Of Mental
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Toughness Factors In Sport (IMTF-S)." Online Submission (2015): ERIC. Web. 21 Feb.
2017
This article goes more in debt in the subject of psychology in sports. It talks about
different factors in the development of mental toughness and strength. One is different methods.
This is talking about how there are different ways to get into everyones heads, and this points
out different ways the brain works and reacts. It then talks about the results of this motivation
and how different people reacted to the different types of motivation. This article is more of an
experimental viewpoint of the effects of psychological preparation on sports, not just how it
helps. This article will help me prove my point with experimental data and factual evidence of