Marcia Williams - In How to Recover From and Prevent Burnout - 2024 USTFCCCA Convention

In How to Recover From and Prevent Burnout, Marcia Williams, Associate Head Track and Field Coach at Limestone University (SC), discusses the prevalence of burnout among coaches, what leads to it, and the steps coaches can take to avoid it or recover from it.

Coach Williams defines burnout and details the most common contributing factors to burnout in athletes and coaches, and strategies to limit its affects.

Additionally, Williams reviews the differences between burnout and depression, which is a diagnosed medical condition that requires additional treatment.

Finally, Coach Williams outlines how to deal with burnout within your program and changes that can be implemented to help your athletes and coaches.

Topics covered include:

• Burnout in Coaches and Athletes
• Contributing Factors
• Preventing Burnout
• Burnout Symptoms
• Burnout or Depression?
• Recovering From Burnout
• Strategies for Dealing with Burnout