Coach's Wife Survival Guide: 22 Ways to Help Your Husband be a Winning Coach

By Janis B. Meredith

You want your husband to win, don’t you? If you are a coach’s wife, the answer to that is a resounding Yes! Every coach’s wife hopes for victories because a winning coach is a smiling coach and who doesn’t like a happy husband?

Would you believe me if I told you that there is a way you can help your husband increase his chances of winning? And it has nothing to do with his coaching strategy or the talent on his team. It has to do with you.

In this book, 22 Ways To Help Your Husband be a Winning Coach, I will give you a sure-fire plan of action to help your husband be a winner!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483525594

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Introduction

You want your husband to win, don’t you? If you are a coach’s wife, the answer to that is a resounding yes! Every coach’s wife hopes for victories because a winning coach is a smiling coach, and who doesn’t like a happy husband?

Would you believe me if I told you that there is a way you can help your husbandincrease his chances of winning? And it has nothing to do with his coaching strategy or the talent on his team. It has to do with you.

The best way for you to help your husband be a winner is to be an extraordinary coach’s wife. And when I say extraordinary, I mean exceptional in character or remarkable. A coach’s wife who is exceptional in character can make a huge differencein how her husband does his job.

An extraordinary coach’s wife is much more than just a cheerleader who shows up to games and cheers her husband on. An extraordinary coach’s wife takes on the challenge of helping to get rid of the obstacles that will crop up to keep her husbandfrom doing his best as a coach. An extraordinary coach’s wife knows that she can helpcut down on distractions that will hinder his focus as a coach.

When my husband first started coaching, we were in our 20s and I didn’t know the first thing about being a high school coach’s wife. I only knew that I loved sports and loved my new husband, and I didn’t think twice when he got hired to coach football at the local high school.

This is awesome, I thought. It’s gonna be a blast! I attended his games when I could and cheered him on. But it didn’t take long for the awesomeness to wear off, and my support of his coaching became rather ordinary. And then we started having kids andlife—with coaching consuming a huge chunk of it—started getting complicated.

We had fights; I was tired after a day with the kids and he was tired after a late practice.I was turning into a very ordinary coach’s wife. In fact, I was less than ordinary. My support was halfhearted, and my resentment sometimes boiled just beneath the surfaceof our conversations.

I reached a point after my husband had coached for a few years when I realized that Icould hold him back from doing something he loved—he offered to give it up so that hecould be home earlier and have more time with the kids—or I could support him as hefollowed his dream. I knew there was really only one thing for me to do: I had to let him do what he loved. I guess it was at this point I decided that, if I was going to be a coach’s wife, I was going to go all in. I wasn’t going to settle for being an ordinary coach’s wife; I wanted to be the best coach’s wife I could be for my husband. I wanted to be extraordinary.

For twenty-eight years, I was a high school coach’s wife. And I believe that I will be again some day when the opportunity arises for my husband to enter the coachingworld again. My husband coached football (from flag up to high school varsity), softball(from little league up to high school varsity, including ASA), and a smidgeon of AAUbasketball. The things I’ve learned and the insights I offer in this book are for coachingspouses in youth sports—from little league up through high school.

I know, however, that my experience may not be the same as that of every other coach’s wife. So I’ve reached out to several coaches’ wives (including one college coach’s wife) and asked for their input. For the sake of their privacy, I will only use their first names. They gave me some pretty awesome insights and I’ve included their wisdom in this book.

Coaches’ Husbands, Listen Up!

Although the title of this book says Coach’s Wife, I believe that if you are a coach’s husband, you need to get this book on your Kindle or Nook and settle down for a quick,helpful read. Everything I am saying to coaches’ wives, I’m