coaches (athletics)

Contains information on coaches, explains what role they play on a sports team, how they help develop players, manage each game, work in the commmunity, and build good sportsmanship.

Feinstein returns to the subjects of his first 10 books (from his celebrated sagas of college basketball seasons to insider tell-alls on pro tennis, golf, and the Army-Navy football rivalry). He recounts the most revealing encounters he's had as a sportswriter.

Mike Krzyzewski, basketball coach at Duke University, shares the leadership lessons he has learned throughout his life from his childhood in a Polish Chicago neighborhood, to his days at the U.S. Military Academy, and his tenure at Duke.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about over 190 male and female athletes who have excelled in the spring and summer sports of baseball, auto racing, golf, tennis, horseracing, boxing, and track and field; each with quotations, definitions, and a time line.

Twenty-five authors share the stories of the athletic coaches whose influence affected the course of their lives, including selections from Jonathan Ames, John McPhee, George Plimpton, Christine Brennan, and others.

Mia's chances of skating in regionals are threatened by a family crisis, but she determines to face the possibility that she won't get to compete with determination and grace.

Jake Henry's hockey team, having lost its coach, tries to get used to the way his replacement, who is Jake's grandfather, coaches.