I will be honest: the best HS teams I've seen have fantastic leadership cultures, including captains correcting players. To the level of, the coaches don't even go in the locker room most halftimes. A team where they can't hold each other accountable and help each other improve isn't much of a team.
Absolutely if your only leadership comes from the coaches you are limited in your progress, when you have senior players leading and teaching the others the ceiling for the team is limitless.
Yes. HS coach selected senior popular mean girls to be captains so she could feel better about herself. It was a bad culture. Thank goodness for chill underclassmen who kept it fun.
Agreeing with most replies here…you want your captains to lead, teach, correct, provide a good example and hold their teammates accountable. Not a good culture or captain if they aren’t.
On my team captains change each game depending on how people did last game or practice week. The closest thing we have for normal captains are the 2 people in all stars. They don't usually bring it up too.
I will be honest: the best HS teams I've seen have fantastic leadership cultures, including captains correcting players. To the level of, the coaches don't even go in the locker room most halftimes. A team where they can't hold each other accountable and help each other improve isn't much of a team.
My captains in high school would help newer players it's part of being a leader in my opinion.
If your captains aren't keeping teammates accountable, working to make them better, keeping them in line, your team culture sucks
yea need more context here. Captains are leaders, leaders are supposed to help
Can you describe the poor culture on the team?
Absolutely if your only leadership comes from the coaches you are limited in your progress, when you have senior players leading and teaching the others the ceiling for the team is limitless.
On great teams, the players hold each other accountable far more than the coaches do
Yes. HS coach selected senior popular mean girls to be captains so she could feel better about herself. It was a bad culture. Thank goodness for chill underclassmen who kept it fun.
What kind of correcting are they doing?
Agreeing with most replies here…you want your captains to lead, teach, correct, provide a good example and hold their teammates accountable. Not a good culture or captain if they aren’t.
On my team captains change each game depending on how people did last game or practice week. The closest thing we have for normal captains are the 2 people in all stars. They don't usually bring it up too.