It motivated the players to have women role models. They could go to the Target Center and watch the (WNBA's Minnesota) Lynx play, ... They could have heroes like Rebecca Lobo and those other great UConn players. They wanted to be like them. As a coach you just give them the skills needed for the opportunity to make it some day.
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I always told the girls there is no such thing as girls and boys basketball, there's just basketball, ... I told them to be physical and block out. There is only one way to play the game. One of the reasons is hopefully I was non-sexist. I taught them to play the game the same way I taught the boys. We were one of the first teams to play up-and-down, in-your-face defense. I used the same approach with the girls as I did with the boys' team.David Thorpe
We were ranked (two or three times) in the Top 10 of the USA Today poll and we were featured on High School Sports America. We had gone seven years without a loss at home and they did a special on us,
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It's fun to watch them play on ESPN. I have a girl (Krista VandeVenter) who is the center for the Iowa Hawkeyes,
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I had so many Division-I coaches who would call me and ask me for a point guard, for example, ... I had double digit girls to play college basketball.
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She helped me keep things in perspective - on a more even keel, ... She made me understand that basketball was a small part of what we have going.
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