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AKA: Dominic
FRC #2412 (Robototes)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Bellevue WA
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Re: On field Coach - Student or Adult

I have been on the Robototes drive team for 5 years, 4 as a student and one as a mentor. I traded around as coach/driver my first year before the team really understood the importance of a good coach. My second year I traded off being driver every other match with another student, and coached several of the matches I wasn't driving. My third year I was the main driver with Evan (the kid with the red Mohawk) as my co-driver. We had random students and mentors trade off being the coach that year.
Last year Evan once again took on the co-driver roll as he was also the team captain. The girl who drove went on to be our team captain this year. I was the coach, and apparently I did well enough that this year the team decided to have me coach again. Evan was picked as driver since he had the highest score (behind me ) in our driving trial. We decided to take a risk and have his girlfriend be the co-driver, and it definitely paid off. Our drive team worked very well this year.

The main thing our team will be looking for in our drive coaches is the drive team experience, but being a mentor definitely helps.
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