What? Where? Why?

In my second year of uni, I would really like to work with a BUCCS team. After playing netball in my first year at Marjon University, I have realised the importance of the sports therapist which are in their second and first year. I have had many problems with my ankle in particular and they have really helped me before netball matches and also helping to sort out my problems and giving me rehabilitation exercises. Personally, I would prefer to work for either a football or rugby team. The reasoning of why I would like to do this is because I feel that they are the sports which to appear to get the most injuries from players. In particular I would like to be with rugby as it is most likely that players will be injured due to the amount of contact involved in the sport. This means that I will be able to also see a variety of injuries and it will rally help me to advance my knowledge. Working alongside a third year who has been in my place will mean that I will be able to learn a lot from them as well. I feel BUCCS is really good way as it tends to be my age category and it helps to break me into being able to figure out injuries instead of being thrown straight into the deep end with a more professional team or club. I would want to do a BUCCS team at this uni in particular as I feel will benefit from being round my peers as we tend to learn a lot off each other.

Linking back to GAP analysis

In my previous assessments, I looked at my motivation and emotional control. After going through some questions to do with motivation, it seemed that my main area of weakness was failure aversion. As a sports therapist, some things are going to work really well with my clients whereas I will have some failures. I need to be able to develop myself to deal with failures and so that I can learn from my mistakes and develop on from these. Working In a BUCCS league I feel will be beneficial for this. This is because I will be surrounded by a lot of help instead of being off on my own. It means I will be able to soak up the information which I can then put into practice. Another aspect I looked at was emotional control. In order to be professional, I need to have good control to make sure I stay calm especially if situations seem negative. The feedback given said I would need to find a way to challenge myself to different approaches. This means that when it comes to different situations I need to be able to remain calm and professional no matter how bad the injury is. For a sport like rugby, there are most likely going to be some bad injuries and its therefore up to me and my peers to work with the player to give them the best care.