Help on part c) application questions on OCR a-level psychology applied psychology

This is from sport psychology, but anyone who could let me know (sport psychology or not) if this answer is structured well and what im missing would be great help!

A team of young hockey players are ambitious to improve their performance. They have a new coach who spends a considerable amount of time socialising with the team. He is criticised by the team’s parents who think the team should always be practising their hockey. However, in the next big game the team wins.
(c)* Discuss how a sports psychologist might apply their knowledge of sports coaching to explain the win to the team’s parents. [10]

As a sport psychologist, my strategy could be to explain to the hockey team’s parents, in a meeting at the next training session, the importance of cohesion within a team in order for the teams’ performance to be high. Team cohesion is defined by Carron as ‘the tendency for a group to stick together in pursuit of its goals’, and it can be categorised into two types of cohesion which both need to be present so the hockey team can be successful: task cohesion and social cohesion. Task cohesion represents how committed the players are in achieving towards performing well in their hockey games. Social cohesion is the ability of the team to personally support each other and work together. The sports psychologist could explain if the coach socialised with his team rather than only focusing on practicing hockey, this meant that social cohesion within the team developed further, so communication strengthened between the players and the coach. This would lead to task cohesion increasing, as the players would become more motivated to perform well in their hockey matches since the players would acknowledge their teammates and coach as people they trust and want to play well for, which contributed to the win of the team.

Additionally, another strategy I could use as a sports psychologist is to explain to the hockey team’s parents how a successful performance stems from the team’s self-esteem and perception of hockey as well as the perception of their coach’s behaviours. This is proposed in Smith et Al’s Coach Effectiveness Training (CET), suggesting that CET has a significant positive impact on players’ attitudes to these factors. Therefore I could explain if the coach socialised with the team, instead of always practising hockey, the team has a better perception of hockey and their coach, and so links back to a stronger social cohesion establishing within the team. Smith’s research also found that coaches that underwent CET had a 10% higher mean win rate compared to coaches who didn’t undergo CET training, providing evidence that the hockey coach socialising with the team is essential in order for the players’ to have a better attitude to play well for the team.