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.
Customer Review: A decent overall guide
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.