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Why Do You Coach?
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted January 20, 2014 at 11:01pm

source “Once you know your greater purpose, there are lots of roads that will take you there.” –Where There’s a Why, There’s A Way I’ll start. I coach because I believe in it.  I coach because God created me to ...more

Teaching Our Teams To Handle Pressure
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted January 15, 2014 at 10:05pm

source There’s a possibility that I’ve been wrong about how I go about teaching my team to handle pressure.  I’ve always told them, do what you gotta do to figure out how you best handle pressure.  If you’ve got to convi...more

9 Tips To Help Your Team Achieve Their Goals
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted January 10, 2014 at 9:40pm

source “Decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.” That’s a quotation from Harvard Business Review’s article, ...more

Advancement, New Members to Kick Off 2014 via @NACWAA
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted January 10, 2014 at 8:41am

Author:  NACWAA University of California-Berkeley Sandy Barbour has been named the PACnet College Athletics Keynote Speaker set to take place February 10. Read more Rutgers Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Julie Herman...more

8 Reasons Coaches Are Control Freaks
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted January 8, 2014 at 9:43pm

source After reading 8 Signs You’re a Control Freak, I got the impression that the author wanted me to feel badly about my controlling tendencies.  But most coaches know that “control freak” is a synonym for coach.  In our liv...more

The Power of Taking Time Off
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted January 6, 2014 at 10:19pm

source When I saw this TEDtalk called, “The Power of Time Off”, I was understandably intrigued.  Since I’ve just come off of a year-long break from blogging, speaking, and writing, I’m trying to figure out how to frame what I...more

Word of the Year
by coachquam
posted January 1, 2014 at 7:24pm

Word of the Year January 1, 2014 I’d like to share with you a new year’s ritual that I started back in 2006 when I read a blog about choosing a word of the year instead of setting resolutions.  I used to do this with my swim team ...more

5 Things This NFL Coach is Doing Differently
by coachquam
posted December 20, 2013 at 3:00pm

Here are 5 things Coach Pete Carroll is doing differently...more

Take Time to Reflect
by coachquam
posted December 20, 2013 at 2:47pm

Take the Time To Reflect by Erica Quam, President & Founder of The Coaching Experience During the shorter days of winter and the underlying bustle of the holidays, the Earth is preparing in the northern hemisphere for a long period of stillness befo...more

Duke adding women's sports
by Title IX Blog
posted December 19, 2013 at 8:40pm

The women's athletic program is having a good run. Women's basketball is currently ranked second in the nation (though that was a disappointing result against UConn the other day).But the university has decided to put more money and support into women's a...more

RELEASED: New Reports on Women College Coaches
by One Sport Voice
posted December 19, 2013 at 8:37pm

Did you know that in the 40+ years after the passage of Title IX, female sport participation is at an all-time high but the percentage of women coaching women at the collegiate level has declined from 90+% in 1974 to near an all-time low today of 40%? Whi...more

7 Cs That Make Coaches Happy
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted December 18, 2013 at 9:49pm

Over the holiday season, I take a few days to reflect on what my teams and players have achieved (and still need to work on) in this first half of the season. I thought I would share with you the 7Cs that me and my fellow coaches are looking for (and hopi...more

Women, Coaching, And Hockey
by The First Line
posted November 2, 2013 at 11:23am

Note: Edited! Maine coach Maria Lewis, formerly an assistant at North Dakota and Mercyhurst, has resigned.  Coach Lewis does not appear to have made a statement on her own behalf, so we don’t know her side of the story.  The ostensible re...more

Condi Comes to Play
by SportyEsquire
posted October 17, 2013 at 9:42pm

Yesterday Executive Director Bill Hancock announced who would sit on the 13-member College Football Playoff (CFP) Selection Committee.   The committee, which will pick the four teams that will vie in the playoff for the national championship n...more

THE CURIOUS CASE OF NCAA VIOLATIONS
by SportyEsquire
posted October 11, 2013 at 8:24am

I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the latest NCAA scandals.  You know, theJohnny Manziel show, the Oklahoma State saga and the drama in the SEC.  If you’re not, click on those little highlighted words and catc...more

Athletic Assessment via @Laurenfleshman
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted October 10, 2013 at 8:37am

Anyone can dream. Are you committed? Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover? Anyone can follow a diet. Can you make exceptions and remain confident? Anyone can react to a move. Can you be the one that makes it? Anyone can show go...more

Kansas City Shock Head Coach Wendy Louque Finalist Among NSCAA Board of Directors
by anngaff
posted September 20, 2013 at 10:52am

Kansas City, Kan. - Kansas City Shock Head Coach Wendy Louque is making moves during the off-season, off the field and in the office. The NSCAA announced its final candidates for the 2014 Board of Directors election process today. Coach Louque is one of t...more

Never Ever Give Up a blog post inspired by @diananyad
by EmilyAzevedo
posted September 10, 2013 at 3:40pm

I don’t know Diana Nyad nor had I followed her extreme dream before this her fifth and final attempt of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida.  I found myself glued to the television cheering the 64 year old on and tearing up as she limp...more

Never Ever Give Up a blog post inspired by @diananyad
by EmilyAzevedo
posted September 10, 2013 at 3:40pm

I don’t know Diana Nyad nor had I followed her extreme dream before this her fifth and final attempt of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida.  I found myself glued to the television cheering the 64 year old on and tearing up as she limp...more

My Athlete life by @emilyazevedo
by EmilyAzevedo
posted July 29, 2013 at 10:33am

My life as an athlete has been a small amount of luck, a hell of a lot of hard work and an indefinite amount of sacrifice.  I wish I could say that an Olympic athlete’s life is as glamorous as society would assume, but our jobs are a bit unort...more

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