motivating factor. As Recreation Director I have a responsibility to put my staff in the best possible situation to allow them to succeed. This evaluation tool will allow us to correct areas of weakness and enhance areas of strength to ensure that we have a program that will stabilize participation to ensure future opportunities. Elected officials are also stakeholders in this program as it is a representation of the Town government and must be run professionally. Their main concern would be that staff would do everything that they could to continue to provide opportunities for basketball for the youth of Black Mountain. Coaches of the local Middle School and High School would also be stakeholders in this program. Their stake would be to develop a youth program to best prepare players for competitive teams in the future. The more skill development, participation, and positive outlook on basketball there is at the younger levels the more likely they are to have future success. Purpose This evaluation will be a formative in nature because its purpose is to help shape the program to perform better (Rossi, Lipsey & Freeman). These evaluation results will be used to create a better product (youth league) than we currently have. The philosophy of our youth league is: Our goal for youth sports is that children shall enjoy their experience in the sport by their development physically, psychologically and socially through the activity. A quality experience can be achieved if the coach, parents and leader applies four principles. Those principles are participation, sportsmanship, team play, and teaching the fundamentals of the activity. Our youth sports program strives to promote the philosophy that the enjoyment of participating in team sports is of fundamental concern, with competition a natural growth of that involvement. There must be a mutual respect for all teams and individuals involved on the leagues; because without them there would not be a program. Striving to win is fundamental to any enjoyable competition, but it must be kept in perspective. (Bmrecreation.com)
motivating factor. As Recreation Director I have a responsibility to put my staff in the best possible situation to allow them to succeed. This evaluation tool will allow us to correct areas of weakness and enhance areas of strength to ensure that we have a program that will stabilize participation to ensure future opportunities. Elected officials are also stakeholders in this program as it is a representation of the Town government and must be run professionally. Their main concern would be that staff would do everything that they could to continue to provide opportunities for basketball for the youth of Black Mountain. Coaches of the local Middle School and High School would also be stakeholders in this program. Their stake would be to develop a youth program to best prepare players for competitive teams in the future. The more skill development, participation, and positive outlook on basketball there is at the younger levels the more likely they are to have future success. Purpose This evaluation will be a formative in nature because its purpose is to help shape the program to perform better (Rossi, Lipsey & Freeman). These evaluation results will be used to create a better product (youth league) than we currently have. The philosophy of our youth league is: Our goal for youth sports is that children shall enjoy their experience in the sport by their development physically, psychologically and socially through the activity. A quality experience can be achieved if the coach, parents and leader applies four principles. Those principles are participation, sportsmanship, team play, and teaching the fundamentals of the activity. Our youth sports program strives to promote the philosophy that the enjoyment of participating in team sports is of fundamental concern, with competition a natural growth of that involvement. There must be a mutual respect for all teams and individuals involved on the leagues; because without them there would not be a program. Striving to win is fundamental to any enjoyable competition, but it must be kept in perspective. (Bmrecreation.com)
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