FUNDAMENTALS OF COACHING QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔What is proximate cause? - ✔✔must prove negligence was the cause of damage
that happened to the student
✔✔What is an Act of God? - ✔✔an accident attributable to forces of nature, such as
lightning striking a student or limb of a tree falling on a student
✔✔What is contributory negligence? - ✔✔part of the blame for an injury to the injured
party; usually happens when a player is injured while doing something he or she was
told not to do
✔✔What is Assumption of risk? - ✔✔anyone who participates in such sports must be
warned by a supervisor of the built-in dangers that could occur
✔✔What can you do to avoid a lawsuit? - ✔✔1. know your athletes
2. make sure equipment is safe and in good condition
3. protective equipment
4. organize and supervise your team
5. provide thorough instruction
6. put all safety procedures in writing for players and coaches to sign
7. describe techniques and skills to players
8. use training films to show correct technique
9. know what to do if an accident occurs
✔✔What do you do if an accident occurs? - ✔✔1. administer first aid only- do not
practice medicine
2. get professional medical assistance as soon as possible
3. keep an accurate record of the exact circumstances surrounding the accident
✔✔Define tort.. - ✔✔wrongful act leading to civil legal liability
✔✔How do you view youth sport programs? - ✔✔troublesome; adults are not usually
qualified, fundamental basis, pressure or burnout; the only good thing is for the
enjoyment for athletics for young people
✔✔Should an athletes lifestyle be at any concern to a coach? why? - ✔✔yes incase
they burn out; incase they are involved in drugs or alcohol; incase they are failing out in
school
✔✔When the sole purpose in sport is to win, a "game" becomes an all-or-nothing
experience. Explain - ✔✔We need to teach youngsters in such way that even though
they lost, there can be no sense in failure, disappointment yes but not failure.
Youngsters have no idea what their best is, all you can do is help them realize their
, potential; you must teach them that competition is a challenge you should respect and
respond to with honor and integrity and if you come up on the short side the world will
not end; its more important for them to learn cooperation and selflessness.
✔✔What are some ways to talk to athletes about drugs? - ✔✔introduce drug testing,
become knowledgeable about it, become a health educator about it, include the use of it
in team policies and impress that there are no pros just cons to it
✔✔What is the number one drug problem throughout our society? - ✔✔alcohol
✔✔What is Title IX? - ✔✔provides equal opportunity for men and women in any
federally funded institution
✔✔What are some stress management techniques? - ✔✔1. know your body
2. manage your time
3. conduct a stress inventory
4. avoid stress
5. alter your own behavior
6. exercise
7. communicate
✔✔ Who do coaches struggle with the most? - ✔✔parents, attitudes of athletes,
discipline, drug abuse, and officiating
✔✔___: induce false feeling of "all's well" when the user is fatigued; short-circuit
feelings of exhaustion, requiring the body to use up its reserves; might experience total
collapse - ✔✔Stimulant
✔✔___: lose control of body functions; become restless, hostile, and quarrelsome; ex:
alcohol - ✔✔Depressant
✔✔___: not usually associated with a sport; ex: LSD, marijuana - ✔✔Hallucinogens
✔✔___: natural hormone products to rapidly build up strength and endurance; drastic
increase in lean body weight and change in behavior - ✔✔Steroids
✔✔___ ___: self-imposed starvation in an obsessive effort to lose weight and become
thin - ✔✔Anorexia Nervosa
✔✔___: recurring binge eating usually followed by some method of purging such as
vomiting, diuretic or laxative abuse or intensive exercise - ✔✔Bulimia
✔✔___: anorexia nervosa with the practice of one or more bulimic behaviors -
✔✔Bulimarexia
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔What is proximate cause? - ✔✔must prove negligence was the cause of damage
that happened to the student
✔✔What is an Act of God? - ✔✔an accident attributable to forces of nature, such as
lightning striking a student or limb of a tree falling on a student
✔✔What is contributory negligence? - ✔✔part of the blame for an injury to the injured
party; usually happens when a player is injured while doing something he or she was
told not to do
✔✔What is Assumption of risk? - ✔✔anyone who participates in such sports must be
warned by a supervisor of the built-in dangers that could occur
✔✔What can you do to avoid a lawsuit? - ✔✔1. know your athletes
2. make sure equipment is safe and in good condition
3. protective equipment
4. organize and supervise your team
5. provide thorough instruction
6. put all safety procedures in writing for players and coaches to sign
7. describe techniques and skills to players
8. use training films to show correct technique
9. know what to do if an accident occurs
✔✔What do you do if an accident occurs? - ✔✔1. administer first aid only- do not
practice medicine
2. get professional medical assistance as soon as possible
3. keep an accurate record of the exact circumstances surrounding the accident
✔✔Define tort.. - ✔✔wrongful act leading to civil legal liability
✔✔How do you view youth sport programs? - ✔✔troublesome; adults are not usually
qualified, fundamental basis, pressure or burnout; the only good thing is for the
enjoyment for athletics for young people
✔✔Should an athletes lifestyle be at any concern to a coach? why? - ✔✔yes incase
they burn out; incase they are involved in drugs or alcohol; incase they are failing out in
school
✔✔When the sole purpose in sport is to win, a "game" becomes an all-or-nothing
experience. Explain - ✔✔We need to teach youngsters in such way that even though
they lost, there can be no sense in failure, disappointment yes but not failure.
Youngsters have no idea what their best is, all you can do is help them realize their
, potential; you must teach them that competition is a challenge you should respect and
respond to with honor and integrity and if you come up on the short side the world will
not end; its more important for them to learn cooperation and selflessness.
✔✔What are some ways to talk to athletes about drugs? - ✔✔introduce drug testing,
become knowledgeable about it, become a health educator about it, include the use of it
in team policies and impress that there are no pros just cons to it
✔✔What is the number one drug problem throughout our society? - ✔✔alcohol
✔✔What is Title IX? - ✔✔provides equal opportunity for men and women in any
federally funded institution
✔✔What are some stress management techniques? - ✔✔1. know your body
2. manage your time
3. conduct a stress inventory
4. avoid stress
5. alter your own behavior
6. exercise
7. communicate
✔✔ Who do coaches struggle with the most? - ✔✔parents, attitudes of athletes,
discipline, drug abuse, and officiating
✔✔___: induce false feeling of "all's well" when the user is fatigued; short-circuit
feelings of exhaustion, requiring the body to use up its reserves; might experience total
collapse - ✔✔Stimulant
✔✔___: lose control of body functions; become restless, hostile, and quarrelsome; ex:
alcohol - ✔✔Depressant
✔✔___: not usually associated with a sport; ex: LSD, marijuana - ✔✔Hallucinogens
✔✔___: natural hormone products to rapidly build up strength and endurance; drastic
increase in lean body weight and change in behavior - ✔✔Steroids
✔✔___ ___: self-imposed starvation in an obsessive effort to lose weight and become
thin - ✔✔Anorexia Nervosa
✔✔___: recurring binge eating usually followed by some method of purging such as
vomiting, diuretic or laxative abuse or intensive exercise - ✔✔Bulimia
✔✔___: anorexia nervosa with the practice of one or more bulimic behaviors -
✔✔Bulimarexia
