Dr Tree Man - BA in Psychology - UMPI YourPace

[Dr Tree Man]

Nice update. You don't need a specific degree to get into professional sports coaching, and with the award budget from AmeriCorps, you can go for any degree that you feel fit.  Having said that, I would do something other than BA Psychology, many coaches have degrees in other subject matter, such as business, education, physical education, sports science, or similar check the box degrees.

Here's my recommendation of a balanced mix/match trifecta of certs, degree, experience, you can do the Pierpont BOG AAS, UMPI BAS with a minor of your choice (Psych in this case) with 3-4 classes that go towards the MAOL, ladder that up to UMPI MAOL.  By taking certs and gaining experience, you'll be well versed in several fields, such as Business/Leadership.

In addition to that, you are very young, while you are focusing on coaching and the requirements to get into coaching, you can decide if you want to further ladder that MAOL to a Walden MS Psych as your last degree.  So instead of having a Bachelors degree, you will end up with two Masters, but my main recommendation is to get the MAOL and leave this for later...

Okay, that makes sense and is a solid plan. I'll have to think it over

I wish there were sports psychology programs available that fit me that'd be perfect and would allow me to go on a path to become a licensed sports psychologist, thus giving me multiple options. I've got a lot to mull over now which suddenly doesn't seem so daunting.