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Kristen McDonnell has a very unique perspective. She coached a top-tier program in Braintree on the girls side for many years. This past season, she moved on to coach the boys program in Norwood. Males have…
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Kristen McDonnell provided some really practical ideas for improving a youth program. Among the topics she uncovered were coaches clinics, facilitating camps in the summer, and player clinics during the season. Coach’s Clinics When she started…
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I spoke in a teleconference with current Norwood boys basketball and former Braintree girls basketball coach Kristen McDonnell. Her accolades include several state championships and numerous players that have gone on to play at every level…
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I spoke with Winthrop High School girls basketball coach Joe Lowe recently. What always stood out for me about Coach Lowe is two things. First, his positive demeanor. The way he spoke to players at practice…
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There are an infinite level of details we can go to as coaches, but there is a finite amount of time we have to teach those details. I asked Connecticut Sun assistant coach Brandi Poole for…
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A few nights ago Brandi Poole was gracious enough to take a break from draft prep to speak with me over Zoom. Coach Poole is currently an assistant coach of the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun. Her basketball…
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I spoke with Dracut boys basketball coach Brian Myers recently. Coach Myers made the jump from Lowell High School where he coached the girls team previously. He has been coaching at Dracut for two seasons and…
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The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has an incredible lineup of coaches sharing information the next couple weeks. It is all free and available on their website. Geno Auriemma is speaking on man ton man…
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I asked Coach Heather Stec if she has developed any new insights lately. She mentioned two things. The first is that she has developed a passion for the style of offense that Army West Point head…
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I spoke with Heather Stec via teleconference recently. Coach Stec is an assistant on the staff at Army West Point and prior to that she was an assistant with Merrimack College where I first met her.…
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