Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 3475831, member: 6620"] [U]Tara on Getting Former Players Involved in Coaching.[/U] [B]Question[/B]:[I] You have an extensive coaching tree, and some of your former players, like Arizona State’s Charli Turner Thorne, have become head coaches. Muffet McGraw has been vocal in urging the NCAA to allow more opportunities for former players to get into coaching. How do you think those opportunities can be fostered?[/I] [B]Tara Answer[/B]: "Well, through the Women’s Sports Foundation, they have a legacy fund in my name for mentoring. I think this is, to me, the start of the pipeline. Now, selfishly, I wish it was all in basketball, but it’s in all sports. I think they’re just trying to use that to help try to get more resources to the fund. "But I mean, we (Stanford), for 20 years — over 20 years — have had interns who have gone on to be (coaches). Heather Oesterle is the head coach at Central Michigan. She was an intern here (in 2002-03). She was one of our first interns. "Even if they don’t get the internship from the Women’s Sports Foundation, which I encourage coaches (to pursue), someone like Dawn Staley would be a great mentor. Someone like Muffet would be a great mentor. Have interns working with your program, and then they can get in kind of at the bottom on someone’s staff as a video coordinator or an assistant (director of basketball operations) and they can move into the coaching ranks that way." Dillon add-on's on ND: - Muffet McGraw looks for opportunities for her former players: Natalie Achonwa took over operations for a season while she was rehabbing her knee; and, Kayla McBride's work this season advising players also comes to mind. - When she graduated, Michaela Mabrey initiallly had an "extended staff" position with Katie Meier, at the University of Miami, which led to her entering the coaching world. Now she's back at her alma mater. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,459

Messages: 4,397,009

Members: 10,209

Latest member: noelle