Interview draft questions

Interview questions draft (may add more TBD)

• What did growing up playing soccer mean to you?
• Did you feel that after your soccer career was over you still needed something to fuel that competitive drive?
• I know that your kids didn’t attend this school because you started coaching when I was a sophomore, I know you played here all 4 years but why choose high school over club soccer?
• Did you feel like you could be more than a coach? Someone who helped to inspire us to be better and do better in life.
• Has coaching shown you this can be a good way for the youth to learn discipline and respect, a way for kids to learn more than just a sport?
• What has coaching here the last 7 years taught you?
• Do you feel that your coaching style is better or worse than the coaching you received here in your days of playing?
• I am looking forward to the opportunity of coaching my children whenever that day comes. I understand your kids are very young and as of right now soccer to them is just way for them to use up all their energy. Was coaching your kids ever a dream? If so would it be more for pleasure, or to help them learn and watch them grow from it.
• What has coaching different students meant to you as far as seeing them all come and go? Every team is different from the last would you say they teach you as much as you teach them?
• Is the best part of your job being able to stay connected to a game you love so much or being able to watch a group of boys turn into a group of men?
• Has coaching been everything you thought it would be?
• If you could change one thing or try to help student athletes have a better understanding of something what would it be?
• What is it about coaching that poses the biggest challenge to you.
• What is the most rewarding or satisfying thing for a coach to have? Maybe from a student, the whole team, a single season, just something that sticks out.
• Does this job ever get hard to show up to? Maybe the team isn’t what you thought they would or they don’t have the discipline to learn?
• Last question, soccer meant everything to me, it was what shaped me into the man I am today. Do you enjoy the satisfaction of coaching more than you do playing the game? We both played at a very high level but I wonder personally if I’ll get the same satisfaction I did playing as I will be coaching.