Pat Summitt: Women's Equality

With the right influence, communication and skill development is the key to a valuable coach. Without my two outstanding high school coaches, I wouldn’t have the love for basketball and track the way I do today. They have taught me everything I needed to know for the present, along with tips for the future. Coach Lewis and Coach Kohler have done more for me than what I’ve ever deserved and I will never be able to pay them back for all their help and encouragement. But I hope they have understanding of how much of a change they can make on someone's life, someone's life like my

UCLA has a remarkable awards collection, featuring awards such as Pulitzer Prizes, NCAA Championships, and even National Science Medals. The three Pulitzer Prize winners are Kay Ryan for poetry, Jonathan Gold for criticism, then Marvin J Sherman for biography and autobiography. UCLA's sports program has over 114 NCAA tiles. Last but not least, the nine National Science Medals won by the phenomenal science program at UCLA. Looking through UCLA's impressive

Summitt graduated from college and went straight into coaching women’s basketball. “She was named head coach of the Lady Vols after the previous coach quit (“Pat Summitt”).” Summitt started coaching in the 70s and and her coaching career ended in the 2000s. Her players were close to the same age as her, during her first year of coaching. About a month into the season Summitt won her first game. “The Lady Vols had a winning season during Summitt’s second season coaching (“The Pat Summitt Foundation”).” Summitt led the Lady Vols to win the SEC tournament.

It all started with an email seeking freshman male in his coaching and administration program. The 2012 graduate of UConn’s Sport Administration and coaching program, William Aloia, says this future success as the Associate Athletic Director for The College of St. Rose started out by almost” falling into his lap”. The New Jersey native began his undergraduate experience with two Division-I parents, and like an abundance of people he knew that working in sport was something he wanted to do. Previously a part of the Kinesiology department under the late Joe Marrone, Will jumped on the opportunity posted through an email and started his freshman year as a basketball manager for the very successful UConn’s basketball program. He explains how this experience “opened his door up”. Will states; “once I started at UConn working with the women’s basketball program and being around collegiate athletics at such a high level it’s really something in itself, and unbelievable experience. I knew it was for me, I didn’t know which part for sure, but I knew this was something I wanted to do.” What Will realized very quickly realized about working in sport is that often times it is a thankless job. However, that did not stop him from finishing his undergraduate career as a four-year manager for the basketball team. The motivation for Will early in his career has been a two-dimensional illustration of success.

879 wins in 36yrs of coaching, 2nd most in men's college Division I basketball history behind Bob Knight.

Based on our learning from week one of our class, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the leadership perspectives manifested in both Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski, coaches who have made significant marks in their field in college basketball. I hope to be able to identify the power bases both coaches rely upon, as well as whether their actions are more aligned with either a managerial role or leadership role. In addition, I hope to identify how significant the leadership traits have influenced their leadership, based on the five-factor

As our two senior captains closed the practice with their last words I will never forget Claire Basetti saying "Girls, this is my last year here at Wood, all I want right now is this team, my favorite team of sisters I've had at Wood, to win this State Championship". From that practice on, we played our hearts out for the person playing next to us. As we made it to the Giant Center once again in March of 2016, we ended up beating Villa with a lead of seventeen points. The feeling we all felt rushing onto the court as we won when the clock ran out to 00:00 was one of the best feelings I will never forget. That season really taught me that when things don't feel right the way they are going, that talking the problems or feelings out with others definitely helps. If our coach didn't have that one practice dedicated for us I highly doubt we wouldn't have won that game. Winning the State Championship is definitely one of the best moments I'll remember for the rest of my life, and especially the sisterhood I made with my best

So many Coaches have talent and dedication for what they do. I 'm proud to play for one that has a spectacular history of coaching. That coach is Dennis Lorio, who Graduated from LSU (Louisiana State University) with an economic degree and played baseball. “I love the intensity and the relationship in football” Coach Lorio explaining with a passionate expression. I can see it in his eyes that he is very dedicated and hardworking coach. As of now he is 62 years old and still willing to coach. “It’s not the same without coaching. The joy and the sorrow I feel during the season has been addicted to me. I’ve been in this game almost all my life and that is a very long time.”

Pollard continued to have a stellar game defensively as she was putting the Springers guards on lockdown this afternoon. Wiggins did not stop either with her dominant game as she was flirting with a double double. Springers through everything they had at Princess Anne, but on this day, it just seemed like it wasn’t going to be enough. The clock began to tick towards the one minute mark, and you could see few people around the Siegel Center begin to hold up fours, implying that the Lady Cavaliers were on their way to their fourth straight state title if they held on for one last minute, well they did. Lady Cavaliers added another State Championship to their legacy. This made number 8 for Head Coach Darnell Dozier, while senior Nyla Pollard became the only female in the area with 4 State Titles.

According to the online Sports Management Degree Guide, “ Pat Summitt the head coach of the University of Tennessee’s women's basketball team is a hugely influential to female coaches and players across the nation. During her nearly 40 years of coaching, Summitt achieved the record for the most all-time wins for a coach in NCAA basketball history both for men’s or women’s! She led the Lady Vols to an amazing eight NCAA championships, the most of any female coach. She remains the NCAA basketball coach with the most career wins, and was the first coach to achieve 1,000 wins. Plus she only had 208 loss in her 38 years of coaching and she ended her head coaching career with 1,098 wins”. Summitt proves that this stereotype is false because she achieve these goals by showing everyone that females can coach and also win too. There are also female coaches that win in the high school level like Judy Shaubach head coach for the Madera High School Varsity Softball team. In 2015 and 2016 Coach Shaubach led the Madera High softball to back-to-back valley championships against the defending champs Redwood Rangers and Monache Marauders. According to Mark Tennis, “She’s approaching 600 all-time wins since 1989. Add it’s all up and Madera’s Judy Shaubach gets the nod as the State Softball Coach of the Year. She’s also the first from her section to earn this honor since 1981”. Even though Coach Shaubach is a female she still proved that females can coach and if they do try they can win as well.The person I interviewed was Coach Shaubach head coach for the Madera High Varsity Softball team and graduate from the University of Fresno State home of Bulldogs to get more information on what it is like to be a female coach and how people view her. I asked her, “How does it feel being a female coach winning coach of the year’’? She said, “that was an

To be a college coach you have to be very dedicated and love the sport you are coaching. Being a college coach is very time consuming and a very hard job to land in the sports world. The competition that one faces when trying to get into the job field is fierce. This means that the job as a coach in the collegiate athletic career field is limited to a small percentage of the people that end up applying. These people need to be able to fulfill a variety of duties for their universities, and because of this it is important that anyone who is thinking of applying knows the difficulty that comes with the job (Greenwald, 2010).

• Coach Bill Yoast, former head coach, and now the assistant coach, defensive coordinator. He is a single-parent family raising a daughter. He was nominated to Virginia High School Hall of Fame.

Women’s equality is an issue that has been around for awhile. While women have been given many rights to increase equality, including the right to vote and go to college, the problem hasn’t completely vanished. One area that still sees this is in sports. Women’s sports do not draw nearly as many fans and are not covered in the media as much as men’s sports, pay differences between male and female athletes are large, and female athletes have to wait longer to start their professional career than men, which risks their professional career before it even starts.

Coach Mike Krzyzewski was a phenomenal coach and leader. He had the most career wins in NCAA Division I history. His is a prime example of exceptional leadership. Throughout the book Leading with the Heart I have seen prime examples of the following leadership theories: transformational leadership, trait theory, behavioral theory, and power and influence theory.

Basketball teams need a coach that believes in them. The team needs a coach that will work hard to help them achieve the goal of winning. They need a coach that communicates and shows interest in each of the players. On the other hand, they need a coach that can be directive, but also supportive. In the case study this week, Shirley was quite the opposite. Conflicting enough, by all appearances she did not have a total grasp of the concept of leadership in coaching basketball. Factors that could cause the lack of leadership could be confidence or even lack of knowledge (Cohen, 2000). In this paper, Shirley’s leadership style and behavior will be discussed, along with looking at situational factors and other leadership styles that