Part 2: Personal Characteristics, Parental Influence, and Team Organization

cussion on youth sport coach ing issues and strategies. In the previous issue of jOPERD, strategies used to address athlete behavior and athlete performance were discussed at length, based on interview data from a study involving 19 youth sport coaches. This concluding part of the article describes the various strategies that these same coaches use to address three other major issues in the profession: personal characteristics, parental influence, and team organization (table 1).