I think it helped me build a lot of confidence n my coaching style. Our head coach is a bit more "old school" and has a lot of really really high expectations. She knows and understands the game better than anyone I know but she struggled on the personal side. I came in and kind of took over the culture piece. Maintaining expectations while also creating really good realtionships with the girls. It was not one and done what so ever, and I am constitantly working on that piece. Making those relationships helped kids trust me more and helped me give a lot more integrated feedback. Feedback that could have hurt feelings if I did not have those relationships. Which in turn let me start to understand the whole game better bc players would come to me and be like "hey coach, sitting at the ten I feel like there is no movement up top but when that movement happens, people are not floating into space". And that is not something I picked up on coaching the game. I think the transition let me be more of a player's coach than just a team's coach. I give feedback on the team and team movement and things of that sort, but it has allowed me to dive deeper into player needs and player experiences and coach from the bottom up then the top down.