Includes bibliographical references and index.

Checking your coaching competencies / Valorie Kondos Field -- Getting a coaching position, growing as a coach / Rachel Balkovec -- Changing coaching roles, advancing your career / Carol Owens -- Thriving as an assistant coach / Denise Corlett -- Coaching and raising a family / Ellen Randell -- Managing yourself / Roselee Jencke -- Working with administrators / Melissa Luellen -- Building and sustaining a winning program / Amber Warners -- Establishing a high-performance culture / Carla Nicholls -- Developing and implementing a strategy / Melody Davidson -- Recruiting, organizing, and mentoring a staff / Tara VanDerveer -- Planning, scheduling, and delegating / Felecia Mulkey -- Selling your program / Carolyn Peck -- Recruiting athletes to your program / Missy Meharg -- Defining and adjusting athletes' roles / Kelly Inouye-Perez -- Leading effectively and coaching people up / Jen Welter -- Taking an athlete-centered approach / Nancy Stevens -- Strengthening coach-athlete relationships / Teri McKeever -- Growing athletes holistically / Becky Burleigh -- Keeping it fun while instilling the values / Lonni Alameda.

"This book presents the stories, insights, and advice of 20 highly successful women coaches who have broken coaching barriers and established new standards of excellence in their coaching roles in 15 different sports in multiple countries. These coaches detail not only how they coach but also how they communicate with, care for, and develop the athletes under their guidance as well as how they cultivate the culture of their teams and programs to ensure they are the best they can be"-- Provided by publisher.