The correct answer is D. They help students interested in sport develop a positive view of themselves as athletes and teach them important physical skills and strategies.
Explanation:
A coach refers to a person that is in charge of training and instructing an individual who is interested in a specific sport or a complete team. Coaches are mainly found in sportive context from amateur to professional levels but besides this, in countries like the U.S., it is common to find coaches in the school including middle school contexts. In this cases, coaches' main role is to support students that are interested in a sport by teaching them skills and also game strategies, even if they do not have a great talent and also to help students emotionally, which in most cases simply making them believe in themselves and have a more positive view about themselves, considering most of them are teenagers and in most case are more insecure. Therefore, the option that describes middle school coaches is "They help students interested in sport develop a positive view of themselves as athletes and teach them important physical skills and strategies".