Coaching Principles Test
A coach's primary tasks as a logistics manager include managing assistant coaches, team managers,
athletic trainers, and other staff. - correct answer ✔✔False
For power sports, strength should be 2.5 times the force required to perform the action. - correct answer
✔✔false
The training program should take 15 percent or less of the time devoted to an average practice. - correct
answer ✔✔false
When a coach provides less feedback to an athlete whose performance has improved, the coach should
explain the change to the athlete. - correct answer ✔✔true
Generally, setting goals for individual athletes is more effective with the team's input than with just the
individual athlete's input. - correct answer ✔✔false
A coach is likely to be most successful instilling character in her athletes when she. NOT E - correct
answer ✔✔a. develops all team rules with little input from the athletes
b. lectures athletes about moral behavior
c. requires athletes to develop their personal concepts of character on their own
d. models and teaches ethical decision making
e. a and b
A coach and her team have more problems communicating in close, important games. What probably
causes most of these problems? NOT E - correct answer ✔✔a. the stress and passion felt by the coach
and her athletes
b. the coach's poor game plan
c. the athletes' ineffective practice routines
d. the stress and passion felt by the opposing team
A coach's primary tasks as a logistics manager include managing assistant coaches, team managers,
athletic trainers, and other staff. - correct answer ✔✔False
For power sports, strength should be 2.5 times the force required to perform the action. - correct answer
✔✔false
The training program should take 15 percent or less of the time devoted to an average practice. - correct
answer ✔✔false
When a coach provides less feedback to an athlete whose performance has improved, the coach should
explain the change to the athlete. - correct answer ✔✔true
Generally, setting goals for individual athletes is more effective with the team's input than with just the
individual athlete's input. - correct answer ✔✔false
A coach is likely to be most successful instilling character in her athletes when she. NOT E - correct
answer ✔✔a. develops all team rules with little input from the athletes
b. lectures athletes about moral behavior
c. requires athletes to develop their personal concepts of character on their own
d. models and teaches ethical decision making
e. a and b
A coach and her team have more problems communicating in close, important games. What probably
causes most of these problems? NOT E - correct answer ✔✔a. the stress and passion felt by the coach
and her athletes
b. the coach's poor game plan
c. the athletes' ineffective practice routines
d. the stress and passion felt by the opposing team
