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COACHING ATHLETES IS HARD ENOUGH WITH OUT PARENTS INTERFERING
Maye said he hardly relays important information to his players any more without having a parent present. Richards believes coaches of girls' sports may be under more scrutiny because parents worry about their daughter's psyche. But Camarillo High boys' volleyball coach Rob Vandermay, whose team won the CIF-SS Division Three championship last spring, said his parents mostly stick to cheering from the stands. "Maybe I'm luckier than most," he said. "I think I coach a low profile-sport where, maybe, the parents don't know the game as well as the baseball or softball parents might. I've gotten positive support." Agoura High School football coach Charlie Wegher points out that programs thrive on "good" parents. These are the parents helping with fund-raising, manning the snack bars and picking up the tabs. |
"It's awfully difficult to be successful without the support of parents," he said.
Still, even veteran coaches agree they find themselves under parental pressure like never before.
"It seems to have more than doubled from when I first starting coaching," said former Thousand Oaks High School girls' soccer coach Gail Kanney, who resigned last year after Twenty-one years in her post.
"Maybe it's because parents know the game better than when I started. Maybe it's all the private coaches and trainers telling everybody how good they are. It's become big business. It no longer seems like people play for fun."
Ferguson, whose Royal boys' and girls' volleyball teams combined to win six CIF-SS championships, said he often felt the pressure from parents.
"It's a lot harder than when I 1st started coaching," he said. "My teams are something like 125-2 in league at one point, and I was still hearing it from parents. They have the best interests of their child in mind, and that's fine. But I always had to have the best interest of the whole team in mind."
Debi Alia, whose son, Jon, was a member of the Newbury Park High baseball team, said derogatory verbal outbursts by parents make for an uncomfortable high school experience.
"It's embarrassing when people get out of line," she said. "We're supposed to worry about our kids and hope they have success, but it's really up to them once they go out for the team. We just have to let the kids play the game."
Mike Webb, also a baseball parent at Newbury Park high School, agreed.
"I found myself walking away from all the crybaby parents in the stands, just to get away from all the negative talk," he said. "It became about ex-jocks having a visceral experience through their kids. High school sports isn't supposed to be like that."
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