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Author
Series
Miss Malarkey volume 4
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The children on a newly formed soccer team love their coach, Miss Malarky, who doesn't know much about the game except how to make it fun, but the school principal and parents have other ideas.
22) Racing for time
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A guard at a teen correctional facility who saw the cycle of destructive choice and racial tensions between female teen offenders, decides to do something about it. He gathered African-American, Latina, and white teens, and put together a multi-racial track team behind the bars of the detention center. The experience of belonging to his track team not only broke down the racial divides between the young women, but transformed them, putting them on...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Durante su exitosa carrera como entrenador de los Chicago Bulls y Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson conquistó más campeonatos que ningún otro entrenador en la historia profesional del deporte. El autor de este libro fue rápidamente fue bautizado como el Maestro Zen por los periodistas deportivos, pero ese apodo lo único que hizo fue redundar en una verdad absoluta: la de un entrenador que inspiraba pero no provocaba, que lideraba a través de...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach's ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known.
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach's ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known.
25) Kid Coach
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
After turning his couch-potato father into a wrestling champion, Kid Coach discovers that he left out the most important lesson--the importance of being a good sport.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To complete their turnaround from perennial losers to baseball champions, a ragtag group of ten-year-olds needs help from everyone on the team, even the worst player, who can run the bases faster than anyone, but who cannot hit the ball.
28) Hot shot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
119 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Julian Pryce was star center on an undefeated basketball team before moving to a new town, where he quickly gets on the wrong side of the starting center, whose father happens to be their coach.
29) Coaches
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustration ; 23 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...Readers will learn all about what coaches do, where they work, and why they are important in our communities."--Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today's youth sports experience provokes countless questions for well-intentioned parents. How young should kids start playing sports? Should they specialize-and when? What should a parent do when their kid is not getting the playing time they think their child deserves? How do parents encourage children without overwhelming them? And most importantly: how do we ensure our kids both reach their true potential on the playing field, and are well-prepared...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the inspiring story of the 1984 U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team. After many years playing as underdogs, a maverick coach would take over and push the players to their physical and emotional limits. Their journey to the Olympics reveals the value of teamwork, never giving up, and trusting in an innovative style of leadership." --
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 332 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Walker starts with one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams ever--particularly those that sustained success over a long period of time. He devised a formula to compare the achievements of teams from leagues all over the world, and after painstakingly profiling thousands of them, produced a comprehensive, unbiased list of the 16 best. Period. At that point, Walker became obsessed with another, more complicated...
34) Back row dynamo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Ellie is a veteran on her volleyball team, but this year she is frustrated because she is having trouble with her footwork, and she hopes that getting involved with coaching the younger girls in the newly organized after-school group at the Boys and Girls Club will help her work through her problems--besides, it is fun and she was instrumental in setting it up.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent 'us?' Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It's one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball's greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach's Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has...
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