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A professional who analyzes performance and instructs professional athletes in game strategies and techniques to prepare them for athletic competition. Responsibilities include:
* Observes players while they perform to determine need for individual or team improvement.
* Coaches players individually or in groups, demonstrating techniques of sport coached.
* Oversees daily practice of players to instruct them in areas of deficiency.
* Determines strategy during game, independently or in conference with other coach, professional athletes or head coach based on factors as weakness in opposing team.
* May be designated according to phase of game coached as Defensive-Line Coach; Pitching Coach.
* May be designated according to game coached as Basketball Coach; Football Coach; Swimming Coach; Tennis Coach.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who teaches individuals or groups beginning or advanced calisthenics, gymnastics, and reducing or corrective exercises, in private health club or gymnasium, evaluating abilities of individual to determine suitable training program. Responsibilities include:
* Teaches and demonstrates use of gymnastic apparatus, such as trampolines, corrective weights, and mechanical exercisers.
* Demonstrates and teaches body movements and skills used in sports.
* Advises clients in use of heat or ultraviolet treatments and hot baths.
* Lubricates mechanical equipment and reports malfunctioning equipment to maintenance personnel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who teaches sport activity to individual or groups at private or public recreational facility or school. Responsibilities include:
* Explains and demonstrates use of apparatus and equipment.
* Explains and demonstrates principles, techniques, and methods of regulating movement of body, hands, or feet to achieve proficiency in activity.
* Observes students during practice to detect and correct mistakes.
* Explains and enforces safety rules and regulations.
* Explains method of keeping score.
* May organize and conduct competition and tournaments.
* May participate in competition to demonstrate skill.
* May purchase, display, sell, maintain, or repair equipment.
* May keep record of receipts and expenditures.
* May lecture on history and purpose of sport.
* Workers are identified according to sport instructed, such as golf, fencing, or tennis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who teaches sport activity to individual or groups at private or public recreational facility or school. Responsibilities include:
* Explains and demonstrates use of apparatus and equipment.
* Explains and demonstrates principles, techniques, and methods of regulating movement of body, hands, or feet to achieve proficiency in activity.
* Observes students during practice to detect and correct mistakes.
* Explains and enforces safety rules and regulations.
* Explains method of keeping score.
* May organize and conduct competition and tournaments.
* May participate in competition to demonstrate skill.
* May purchase, display, sell, maintain, or repair equipment.
* May keep record of receipts and expenditures.
* May lecture on history and purpose of sport.
* Workers are identified according to sport instructed, such as golf, fencing, or tennis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives automobile racing car in competition road races. Responsibilities include:
* Drives car over track where race is to be run to familiarize self with course.
* Participates in speed and elimination trial races to qualify car for race.
* Drives car in race and analyzes speed and position of other cars to determine when and where to drive car so as to be in favorable position to win.
* Observes fuel, oil, and compression gauges on dashboard of car to ensure that car is operating efficiently.
* Watches for warning signs, such as flags or flares, that indicate an accident is present and drives car accordingly.
* May perform maintenance work on car.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rides motorcycle over track, course, or natural terrain in competitive races. Responsibilities include:
* Operates motorcycle, using hands and feet to manipulate controls.
* Evaluates power, speed, maneuverability, and position of own and other motorcycles in race to determine strategy.
* Listens to engine and reads tachometer to determine gear change and maximum speed which obstacles, such as turns and jumps can be taken.
* Maneuvers motorcycles to avoid track accident, unexpected barrier, or other emergency situation.
* Watches for warning flags, and other signals to follow instructions given by track officials.
* May perform maintenance work on motorcycle.
* May specialize in one type of competition, such as road, dirt track, motocross, off road, or speedway racing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rides racehorse at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with training personnel to plan strategy for race, based on ability and peculiarities of own and other horses in competition.
* Mounts horse in paddock after weighing-in, and rides horse to specified numbered stall of starting gate.
* Races from starting gate to finish line.
* Talks to training personnel after race to analyze horse's performance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives horse-drawn, two-wheel sulky in harness race. Responsibilities include:
* Studies performance record of competing horses to plan race strategy.
* Controls speed of horse in specific sections of racetrack, applying knowledge of harness racing to determine when to challenge for lead of race.
* May train own harness racing horses.
* May direct activities of workers involved in grooming, training, feeding, stabling, handling and transporting harness race horses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives horse-drawn, two-wheel sulky in harness race. Responsibilities include:
* Studies performance record of competing horses to plan race strategy.
* Controls speed of horse in specific sections of racetrack, applying knowledge of harness racing to determine when to challenge for lead of race.
* May train own harness racing horses.
* May direct activities of workers involved in grooming, training, feeding, stabling, handling and transporting harness race horses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who determines entry sequence into starting gate and gives directions to riders and other track personnel to get horses into position for horse race. Responsibilities include:
* Evaluates performance and training record and observes horse's behavior to determine entry sequence.
* Directs entry of horse and rider into starting gate according to planned sequence and stall number.
* Gives directions to track personnel to assist rider when horse refuses to enter starting gate.
* Reports undue starting delay to racing officials.
* Presses button to open gate automatically when horses are correctly aligned.
* May recommend removal of horse unfit to start race.
* May schedule morning workouts for horses requiring familiarization with starting gate procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
