Ethnography - Inter-team Conflict with the Coach :: Ethnography

Ethnography - Inter- group Conflict with the CoachRecently, two strong sopho much(prenominal) players quit the varsity womens water polo team. They said that they were no lifelong having fun, one saying that the time commitment just was not outlay it any more(prenominal), while the other said that playing polo at Oxy was making her more and more unhappy. Earlier in the season, one of the players who was named first team in all American and MVP of the National Tournament, also most quit the team for good. Again, her reasoning was that the game was not fun for her anymore. She also expressed that she matte unappreciated by the coach for her efforts at Nationals, as well as for her leadership on the team on a regular basis.These withdrawals reminded me of the in conclusion two years when I was on the team. I recall how oft I would hear the other players express their discontent about existence on the team. However, the problem did not lie in the team in itself, moreover rather in the coach and his ways. Interestingly, although I was a subdivision of the team, I truly was not aware of the problem at hand. I, higher up and beyond, was a novice player and almost never received anything but positive encouragement from the coach. It is important to realize that I had never played, or even seen, the game of water polo before coming to Oxy, and therefore learned a lot by coming to practice and watching and schooling from the reminders and criticism that the coach would give. Nevertheless, I did have a lot of hump swimming under various coachessome of whom where the meanest of the mean. It is for this reason that I felt up that the other players were often being overly sensitive to the criticisms (which I viewed more often than not as constructive) that the coach would give. Of course, there would betimes that I felt that he would pick on (or yell more at) plastered players. But I believe that there are few coaches that specifically try to brin g downward(a) moral and cause players to hate the game. Yet, scorn the fact that the coach may not mean to bring down moral and cause players to hate the game, it seems he has done something to cause two, almost three, players that played in the National Championship tournament to quit the team.