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Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How does an underdog become a champion? One of the most innovative, gutsy, and dynamic head coaches in the NFL reveals the strategies behind building the Eagles team that shocked the world by winning the Super Bowl. Doug Pederson is the very definition of an underdog. He was an undrafted rookie free agent who would go on to play fourteen years in the NFL as a backup quarterback. He was cut five times, yet kept getting back up and into the fray. He...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Embracing Your Power is a leadership book targeted to professionally minded women across all sectors. Women in for-profit, non-profit, education, healthcare, the military, religion, government, and homemakers will benefit from Clark's unique advice. Because many of her valuable tools and resources are gender-neutral, male readers will also learn how to better work with and for women."--Dust jacket flap.
In a book targeting professionally minded...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
A provocative assessment of legendary UCLA coach John Wooden by the best-selling author of When March Went Mad draws on hundreds of interviews from all periods of his career to offer insight into his driving ambition, divided relationships and hard-won lessons.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mike Matheny was just forty-one when he succeeded the legendary Tony La Russa as manger of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012. He enjoyed immediate success as a manager, leading the Cards to the postseason three times in his first three years. But he is perhaps as well known for his tough-love philosophy, famously expressed in a frankly worded letter he wrote to the parents of a Little League team he coached. That letter contained his throwback beliefs...
10) Los entrenadores
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Hello, coaches! Young learners are introduced to this community helper in a beginning reader that's perfect for curious kids. Early readers will learn how coaches lead sports teams. Full color images and carefully leveled text highlight what coaches do, where they work, and how they help the community by teaching young athletes rules and skills. Part of the Seedlings series from Creative Education, this North American Spanish translation plants seeds...
11) Coaches
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
24 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the coach of her championship softball team asks Raisa Kumar to teach a new recruit, Annie, how to pitch she is eager to help, especially since she hopes to be a coach herself someday; but when the team's other pitcher turns up with a broken arm, teaching Annie takes on a new urgency--and Raisa's efforts at coaching seem to be frustrating Annie rather then helping her.
Author
Publisher
Lulu.com
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most basketball books offer drills. Cross Over outlines an entire development program complete with a long term athlete development philosophy, over 150 age-appropriate basketball drills, break down of skill progressions and thoughts on coaching effectiveness. Cross Over covers Athletic Skills, Tactical Skills, Technical Skills and Psychological Skills through four stages of development and gives coaches the tools to improve their coaching and create...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
275 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The football team at the U.S. Military Academy is not like other college football teams. At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League-caliber education and year-round military training. After graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the world. These young men are not just football players, they...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Britt-Marie is a 63-year-old housewife who has just left a 40-year marriage. The small town of Borg has lost its pride, except for the young soccer team, which Britt-Marie now has to coach. This journey will be filled with struggles and challenges, but also warmth and love.
16) The singles game
Author
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always been a good girl. She excelled at tennis early, coached by her father, a former player himself, and soon became one of the top juniors in the world. When she leaves UCLA--and breaks...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach--two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s--changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The head coach of the New York Jets shares the lessons he has learned in leadership and motivation throughout his career, recounting colorful stories from his work with the Jets and the Ravens as well as memories about his father, NFL coach Buddy Ryan.
20) The long game
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"--
"Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team’s mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team’s owner--who happens...