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[00:01:28] I come from a background of educators and coaches.
[00:01:55] Playing multiple sports.
[00:02:21] I made varsity as a freshman. My parents thought that the coach made a mistake.
[00:02:40] Decided senior year to play basketball or volleyball in college, went with volleyball. Mostly because of my mom. She really wanted me home for Christmas and she knew that if I played basketball, I would not be home for Christmas.
[00:03:35] I thought, why not try this coaching thing? Let's give it a whirl.
[00:04:16] It was a really big eye-opening lesson for me.
[00:06:05] I had to separate, and I still do, have to separate myself as a player, and myself as a coach.
[00:07:44] I was always good at a lot of things, but I never felt I was great at one thing. So, to compensate for that, I always had to outwork everybody.
[00:10:32] But when I became the head coach, I had to separate for a while so that I could create my own identity as a head coach.
[00:12:01] My entire life philosophy, just in everything I do is leave it better than you find it.
[00:13:14] The best coaching I've ever done is when I didn't have to get off the bench.
[00:14:45] I think the first thing is having core values; that looks different for every program, but having those three or four things; this is what our program stands for.
[00:15:11] Book club for each of the grades within their program.
[00:16:28] The other thing that we do in our program is called iron buddies. Originally, it's a biblical reference: "iron sharpens iron."
[00:18:59] I actually really don't enjoy going and watching volleyball. I don't enjoy it.
[00:20:27] I really learned to watch from is Walt White, our baseball coach. I'm constantly picking his brain about stuff. Emily Schmidt, our water polo coach, her and I are in the same path as far as being here and took over around the same time.
[00:21:54] I think that I have an advantage because I coach a female sport and it was a female athlete. I think that's one thing that my male colleagues can't, they just, they're never going to be able to. Connect with. And I think it'd be a disservice to my athletes to not use my own experience in that way.
[00:23:41] I've had to really work harder at the X's and O's part of coaching, because I am a natural athlete and a natural workhorse.
[00:26:24] Modeling the communication that I have with some of those veterans in front of the freshmen and the transfers.
[00:28:50] Forgiveness is a super powerful thing, and I don't think that coaches are told and taught that very often. I have made so many mistakes as a coach.
[00:33:00] I didn't take the time to get to know my freshmen in a way that was meaningful.
[00:35:43] One of the first questions I ask recruits is, do you play multiple sports? Because here's what being a multi-sport athlete taught me.
[00:38:30] One of the things that I've noticed a lot with, most often with multi-sport athletes is they handle pressure a lot better.
[00:40:46] Having adults, whether it's parents or coaches or siblings that say it's okay to be multi-dimensional.