Studies show that playing sports and staying active gives you a better outlook on life. Set a physical challenge for yourself (run a race, rock climb, learn to surf, etc.) and complete it! 

Day to Day

Get active! 

Watch as writer Andrew Solomon gives a powerful call to action to forge meaning from our biggest struggles. What struggles have you faced? How can you learn from them?

Career

Learn how to overcome adversity.

Ask your school's athletic trainer (or a coach) if you could shadow them on the job to gain first-hand experience. Pay attention to the pros and cons of daily tasks you observe to determine if it's right for you!

Shadow your school's athletic trainer or coach.

Coaches and Scouts

Instruct or coach groups or individuals in the fundamentals of sports. Demonstrate techniques and methods of participation. May evaluate athletes' strengths and weaknesses as possible recruits or to improve the athletes' technique to prepare them for competition. Those required to hold teaching degrees should be reported in the appropriate teaching category.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Third Interest High-Point

First Interest High-Point

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Second Interest High-Point

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Athletes, Coaches, Umpires, and Related Workers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers

Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions.

Plan strategies and choose team members for individual games or sports seasons.

Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.

Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes.

File scouting reports that detail player assessments, provide recommendations on athlete recruitment, and identify locations and individuals to be targeted for future recruitment efforts.

Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.

Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies.

Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics.

Keep abreast of changing rules, techniques, technologies, and philosophies relevant to their sport.

Monitor athletes' use of equipment to ensure safe and proper use.

Develop and arrange competition schedules and programs.

Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations.

Serve as organizer, leader, instructor, or referee for outdoor and indoor games, such as volleyball, football, and soccer.

Explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights.

Arrange and conduct sports-related activities, such as training camps, skill-improvement courses, clinics, and pre-season try-outs.

Select, acquire, store, and issue equipment and other materials as necessary.

Negotiate with professional athletes or their representatives to obtain services and arrange contracts.

Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours.

Teach instructional courses and advise students.

Contact the parents of players to provide information and answer questions.

Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests.

Hire, supervise, and work with extended coaching staff.

Keep and review paper, computerized, and video records of athlete, team, and opposing team performance.

Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues.

Perform activities that support a team or a specific sport, such as participating in community outreach activities, meeting with media representatives, and appearing at fundraising events.

Monitor the academic eligibility of student athletes.

Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.

Oversee the development and management of the sports program budget and fundraising activities.

Baseball catching gloves

Communications headsets

Cyclical variations in adaptive conditioning CVAC pods

Digital stopwatches

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Field hockey sticks

Figure skates

Football training dummies

Football training sleds

Ice hockey skates

Ice hockey sticks

Interactive whiteboards

Laptop computers

Motion analysis equipment

Personal computers

Regulation basketballs

Regulation footballs

Regulation soccer balls

Regulation volleyballs

Speed measuring radar guns

Speed skates

Tablet computers

Track and field hurdles

Vaulting poles

Weighlifting analysis equipment

Facebook

Graphics creation software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Word

Motion analysis software

Online registration software

Performance database software

Scheduling software

Statistical software

Twitter

Video analysis software

Video editing software

Video file conversion software

Web browser software

Website creation software

YouTube

My mom passed away... and my father had already moved out and there were 7 of us so we were actually on our own. Basically before I could graduate High School I was homeless, we didn't have anywhere to go.

Track and Field Coach

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Bev Kearney

Track and Field Coach

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Bev Kearney

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Education

Career

Career Roadmap

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Hurdles

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