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Personal Narrative : Graduate Selection Committee Essay

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ATTN: Graduate Selection Committee

In today’s digital world, young-peoples soft-skills are becoming far more valuable than content knowledge. From every school I’ve worked with, visited, and competed against, the schools with the strongest sports programs seem to correlate with the strongest academic schools in our area. Then when I view how I can impact young-people the best, I feel the answer is as an athletic-administrator and as a coach, environments that soft skills such as teamwork, collaboration, and work ethic are stressed the most. Because of this, I am looking to take a leap in my career, by applying for acceptance in your Master’s in Athletic Administration Program.

Throughout two years in teaching and four years coaching, I’ve understood the need to be a lifelong learner. When I got my bachelor’s degree, or when I attempted to run my first drills as a football coach, it amazed me how much I still had to learn, even if I was qualified to do the job. I try to practice this in my math classroom, as I continually try to improve my craft. Now in my second year I now trend more towards mastery learning, and standards-based grading. My reasoning behind this is my experiences with coaching. The education that happens in coaching is closer to a job, as it’s not just an average on a scale. If you have a running back group that can’t hang on to the ball, a coach does not just walk back and say, “I guess we are going to fumble every carry today.” I realized though I was

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