The cooperation between coach and parents of young athletes, and at the same time, building the common relationship among them, are very important in the training process of alpine skiing, (such as in other sports). Without parents’ help and cooperation, coaches find themselves difficult to successfully manage the responsibilities that training process brings in the sport of youth. Relationship build by coach and athlete’s parents is crucial when young athlete decides to join sport organization. Therefore, it is very important that coaches integrate parents in to the sport world of their children on the way that help them to understand the role that they play in this process.
In this master’s thesis, I describe the concept of cooperation, the concepts of social work, coach’s role in sport, the ways of leadership and cooperation between coach and young athlete’s parents. The quality of the cooperation depends on many different factors. In the theoretical part of this thesis, I define the following elements of the quality of cooperation in relation coach – young athlete’s parents: communication between coach and parents, first meeting, coach’s accessibility and openness for conversation with parents and answering their questions, finding the resolutions for young athlete’s problems and informing parents about their behaviors on trainings and competitions.
In the empirical part of the thesis, I present the challenge of parents’ integration into the sport world of their children in the way that parents too many time intervene into the coaches’ work. Through the research, I see the problem from different point of view. Considering the fact that is not necessarily parents’ fault for their excessive intervention, I allow the possibility that some parents only strive for better cooperation with coaches and try to get more information about their children. Based on review of the quality of cooperation elements that I describe in theory, and including coaches of Slovenian ski clubs and parents of young skiers in the study, I research the quality of cooperation between coaches and parents.
Quantitative research on non-probability convenience sample, which includes young athletes’ parents and coaches from different ski clubs and regions all over the country, revealed that considering coaches’ and parents’ evaluation, the cooperation between coaches and parents is good. If we take a look in the percentage of those who did not evaluate cooperation as good, we see that coaches rate the cooperation with parents better as opposite. Also the percentage of those who would like to have better collaboration, is higher by parents.
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