This unit on struggle explores the challenges coaches face, from losses and transfer decisions to sinful patterns like pride and discontent. It emphasizes the coach's role in guiding athletes with humility, faith, and perspective. Through reflection and community, coaches can learn to navigate adversity and grow in both sport and Christlikeness.

Unit Eight – Struggles
 
Lesson One – The Role of a Coach After a Loss
This article argues that after a loss, a coach's primary role is to help athletes separate their identity from their performance by guiding them through failure as a lesson rather than a definition of who they are. By refraining from shame, consistently affirming an athlete's value, and reframing setbacks with perspective, coaches can redeem losses into moments of growth. This approach not only aligns with a faith-centered view of personhood but also leads to freer, more confident athletic performance.

Lesson Two – Guiding Athletes Through the Transfer Portal: Six Faith-Focused Responsibilities
This article challenges coaches to view the transfer portal not just as a roster issue, but as a formative moment in an athlete's life that requires wisdom, care, and faith-centered leadership. It outlines six key responsibilities for coaches to help athletes slow down, seek counsel, prioritize safety, discern growth versus escape, and count the full cost of transferring. Ultimately, it calls coaches to lead athletes toward decisions rooted in clarity, character, and long-term flourishing - not just opportunity.
 
Lesson Three – The 7 Deadly Sins of Sport
This article challenges coaches to recognize how common cultural patterns in sport- like discontentment, pride, idolatry, and comparison - can quietly undermine athlete flourishing if left unaddressed. By leading with perspective, humility, and faith, coaches can help athletes enjoy sport as a good gift rather than allowing it to shape their identity or replace what only God can provide. 

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