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Re: Mentors as Drive Coaches?
I''ll through my hat in ring here because I'm right on the edge of switching this up.
I started as a student in FIRST in 2003 and I had a bad experience with an adult coach. Since than every team I have been a part of has had a completely student drive team. However they also had the luxury of experienced students who could be drive team coach. I'm coaching a new team this year and none of the students have had that much experience (we're only a sophomore team). At lone star this week don't be too surprised if I'm on the field for at least the eliminations matches. I really don't want to be because I've always fought for student coaches on my teams but right now I feel like that stand is stopping my team from excelling and I would never want to do that either.
Will see how the event plays out and it will probably be a decision made by the drive team if they want me there or not, but before last week I had told them that I wouldn't coach when they asked but I'm leaning a lot further to doing it.
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Team 647 | Cyber Wolf Corps | Alumni | 2003-2006 | Shoemaker HS
Team 2587 | DiscoBots | Mentor | 2008-2011 | Rice University / Houston Food Bank
Team 3847 | Spectrum | Coach | 2012-20... | St Agnes Academy
LRI | Alamo Regional | 2014-20... "Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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