basketball coaches

Because she is now over six feet tall everybody expects Juniper to be good at basketball, especially her demanding coach (who also happens to be her father)--but she is not sure that she even likes basketball, and she definitely does not like the pressure that she feels when she misses a shot and her father benches her.

The author investigates what makes a great coach and how coaches create successful, coherent teams by questioning coaches active in professional and college football and basketball.

"A struggling team of kids from a poor neighborhood is transformed by the appearance of a mysterious coach"--OCLC.

A first-hand account by head Rutgers Women's Basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer from her earliest days as a coach through to the Don Immus issue where she conducted herself with dignity and courage despite losing in the championship game with Louisiana State University. Shares information about her fourteen-year-old daughter Nina who struggles with the results of spinal meningitis, and the sudden death of her husband Bill. Also discusses her own bout with cancer and her ongoing affection for her team.

Autobiography of Pat Summitt, covering her childhood in Tennessee, building and coaching the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team, and health struggles, especially early onset Alzheimer's disease.

Looks at the illegal recruiting practices of former University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, who, along with other coaches and fixers, laundered money from Adidas to the families of players to entice them to attend Adidas-branded colleges.

An unauthorized biography of legendary professional basketball coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls, Phil Jackson.

Celebrates the accomplishments of some of the NBA's most famous players, teams, and coaches.

Dramatizes the true story of Coach Don Haskins of Texas Western University who, in the 1965-66 season, bucked convention and consequences to introduce the first all-African-American starting lineup in the history of college basketball.