Reflections of a 5th-Grade Girls Basketball Coach

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Charlie Duncheon. Reflections of a 5th-Grade Girls Basketball Coach

Reflections of a 5th-Grade Girls Basketball Coach. Life Lessons from Girls’ Hoops. Charlie Duncheon

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

What a Beautiful Game

Getting Started

Priorities

Practices

10-Year-Old Female Vocabulary

Timeouts: The 60-Second Critical Message

Games

Life Lessons

Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Appendix

Sample Game Plan

Sample Report Card

Sample Team Poem

About the Author

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To Casey, Sydney, and Dagney. Thanks for the memories.

I hope you enjoy this short coaching (and personal) journey. I will share some of the joys and the heartaches, present tips on how to coach young girls’ (and boys’) basketball, offer some life lessons learned by the girls and by me, and pass on many of the amazing things that come out of the mouths of these wonderful young girls competing in the global game of basketball.

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And now, toward the end of this global Friday, in the small northern California town of Los Gatos, Karen and Alasdair, a recently married couple who both work in the Silicon Valley, walk with two out-of-town guests toward downtown. They have a reservation at a superb steakhouse called Forbes Mill. The Silicon Valley couple are native Brits with working visas and their two guests are from Birmingham, England. Strong British accents flow into the evening air as the four of them marvel at the mild evening temperature and the beauty of this quiet, scenic California town.

Los Gatos is a small town that cozies up to the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It began over a century ago, as the last stop before horse-driven carriages and wagons began the trek over the mountains toward timber mills and the town of Santa Cruz on the Pacific coast. Los Gatos, Spanish for “The Cats,” acquired the name from the mountain lions that frequented that same trail the carriages and wagons used. The first business in Los Gatos was the Forbes Mill, along the creek next to the trail. Forbes Mill Steakhouse and the Los Gatos High School Wildcat mascot name are a couple of the few remaining traces of the first settlement. The town has become a wealthy suburb made up of those who succeeded in high technology companies in the adjacent Silicon Valley, and those who succeeded in servicing those who made money in the high-tech companies.

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