Emotional yet stoic, stern yet praising, focused but never losing sight of the big picture: Staley is a coach that fits all of those descriptions and then some. She is a coach that will take selfies of herself and her players at any time, anywhere. However, those places they go to include not just gyms and arenas around the country, but also places like Emmanuel AME Church, where she took her team this past weekend.
As she wrote in a piece on the Players’ Tribune in June, “This isn’t just about the four years they spend with me. This is bigger than being their coach. This is about their whole lives.”
