Share Your Gift

Posted By: CullenDonovan
Posted On: March 5th, 2019
Attending: Letterkenny Institute of Technology


For the past 6 months, I have been able to coach with several local clubs throughout Letterkenny and Derry. I have able to work with aspiring athletes from local clubs Letterkenny Blaze, Northwest Basketball Academy, Mulroy Hoops and Northstar in Derry. Each of these practices has been vastly different, yet have provided me with the opportunity to enhance the basketball throughout the region. I have relished in my time working with the various teams on their basketball development. Throughout the sessions, I have been able to see the growing love for the game take shape. With only a few months left working with many of these players, I will be working to continue to cherish these sessions as much as possible.

As a coach, you really don’t know what your impact can be on the people that you work with. Prior to a training session with the LYIT national league team, I met Laura who plays for the women’s team Fabplus. A couple of days earlier I coached her son Sean who plays for the Letterkenny U12 boys team. After the training session earlier in the week, Sean had gone home thrilled. She mentioned that he was boasting about how I used him in demonstrations of the skills and that I even knew his name. These are two very small things that wouldn’t mean to much to me, as it is something I try to do every session. Yet to Sean it meant the world. After hearing this it made me reflect on the impact I can have as a coach. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the players and clubs that I coach with. I get the opportunity to boost young athletes lives through the game that I grew to love and provide them with enjoyable training sessions. Those two things alone make my time as a coach more meaningful. Coaching has provided me with a platform to share my gift while inspiring the lives around me. I wouldn’t want it to be any other way.

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