Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series) [Paperback]

Jill Prudden (Author)

Book Description

Series: Coaching Successfully Series | Publication Date: August 30, 2005

Learn to coach girls' basketball from one of the most successful U.S. high school coaches. In Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully, veteran coach Jill Prudden explains the methods she has used to win more than 700 games and send dozens of female players to the collegiate level, including Olympian Jennifer Azzi.

Packed with insights, plays, and drills, this comprehensive book presents the tactics for leading an effective program as it specifically relates to girls' teams. Not only will you find the skills and drills to help your team improve on the court, but you will also discover the foundational issues of developing a philosophy, motivating, evaluating, and communicating with players and staff. Sample forms, charts, and checklists help you organize and manage teams on a daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal basis.

Through Prudden's expert guidance and compelling anecdotes, you will learn to identify and put into play the unique team dynamics of girls' basketball. Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully will show you how to build a winning program and team, year in and year out.

Editorial Reviews

Review

""""Jill Prudden is one of the best high school coaches I have ever known. Her dedication to her athletes and to high school girls basketball, and her knowledge of the game and attention to detail has benefited many great collegians such as Jennifer Azzi at Stanford University and Nikki Caldwell at the University of Tennessee. This book will have tremendous value to a coach who wants to build a program the right way!"""
Nell Fortner, Auburn University
"""Coach Prudden helped lay the foundation for my basketball career because of her ability to teach the fundamentals and think through the strategies of the game. She brings out the best in her players as individuals and as a group by stressing teamwork, hard work, and the importance of conducting themselves with class at all times. As a result, she has gained a tremendous amount of respect not only for her team's on-court success but also in the way she runs her program as a whole. She is leaving a legacy that coaches only dream of."""
Jennifer Azzi
WNBA, member of 1996 Olympic gold-medal team
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""Jill Prudden is one of the best high school coaches I have ever known. Her dedication to her athletes and to high school girls basketball, and her knowledge of the game and attention to detail has benefited many great collegians such as Jennifer Azzi at Stanford University and Nikki Caldwell at the University of Tennessee. This book will have tremendous value to a coach who wants to build a program the right way!""

Nell Fortner, Auburn University

""Coach Prudden helped lay the foundation for my basketball career because of her ability to teach the fundamentals and think through the strategies of the game. She brings out the best in her players as individuals and as a group by stressing teamwork, hard work, and the importance of conducting themselves with class at all times. As a result, she has gained a tremendous amount of respect not only for her team's on-court success but also in the way she runs her program as a whole. She is leaving a legacy that coaches only dream of.""

Jennifer Azzi
WNBA, member of 1996 Olympic gold-medal team

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics (August 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736056114
• ISBN-13: 978-0736056113
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #603,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #86 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Basketball > Coaching

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She "Gets" Girls, December 10, 2008

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Lady Seyhawk "GoSeyhawks" (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series) (Paperback)

I played girls varsity sports and now I'm coaching a girls team. Jill Pruden "gets" it. She lays out what you need to be strict about, how to set realistic individual and team expectations, and how to motivate the girls to give you whatever their best game is on a given day. I love her Heart of Champions section on page 37, as well as the guidance she provides about choosing captains and determining starters on page 35. This is where her motivational insights are found. A great book for beginning coaches as well as for those experienced coaches who might be looking for those gentle reminders about how the motivational fundamentals of coaches are as important as the skills fundamentals of our players.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent overall guide, August 19, 2006

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James Sickler (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series) (Paperback)

After reading this book, it's very obvious that the author is a very good coach. She has achieved tremendous success through (it seems) hard work and sound basketball principles. Her book is well written and easy to understand. I have purchased many basketball coaching books over the last 3 years, and this is as good or better than many I've read.

I'm now a head coach for a high school varsity girls' basketball team, and I bought this particular book (among others) because it was specific to girls' basketball. However, this book offered nothing to set it apart from any other high school (boys') coaching book. I had just read Morgan Wootten's "Coaching Basketball Successfully" and it felt like I was re-reading a good portion of this book. I am definitely disappointed that I didn't read anything new to me or very specific to girls' basketball. The author (I'm sure) has a greater wealth of knowledge and experiences than I do, I just wish this book would have tapped into that a little more. This is a good complete basketball book, but it isn't very enlightening and does nothing to differentiate itself from the hundreds of other high school coaching books out there.