Way of Champions Podcast #165 Hall of Fame Coach Tara Vanderveer, Head Coach of Stanford Women's Basketball Team
May 3, 2020
01:03:55
This week on the Way of Champions Podcast, we welcome Tara Vanderveer, Head Coach of the Stanford Women’s Basketball team. Coach Vanderveer is a 2-Time national champion coach, has been to 12 Final Fours, coached the 1996 US National Team at 1996 Olympics, and has been named Pac-12 Coach of the Year 10 times! She is also one of only nine NCAA Women's Basketball coaches to win over 900 games, and one of ten NCAA Division I coaches – men's or women's – to win 1,000 games. Coach Vanderveer was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. In this episode,Coach Vanderveer shares what it is like to coach during a pandemic, why she thinks it is important to look at every one of her players as someone’s daughter, and what she learned by becoming a student of the piano at 40. You can connect with Coach Vanderveer on Twitter here and Stanford Women's Basketball here. Highlights from the Podcast:
- What is it like to not coach players during this time (COVID-19)
- How have the players and the environment changed?
- What is the Stanford Way?
- Coach Vanderveer recaps a big game in 1985.
- The state of women’s sports
- What should young coaches focus on to be a successful coach?
- “Young coaches, take small steps and make mistakes before swinging for the fences."
- Does a great player make a great coach?
- Why every coach should carry around a notebook
- “You can get more bees with honey than vinegar."
- Coach Vanderveer explains her philosophy in working with difficult players
- What did Coach Vanderveer learn by becoming a piano student at 40-years-old?
- Advice for parents that want their kids to do well in sports
- Advice to athletes: “The same brain that got you in the game got you taken out of the game."
- Lessons learned from being the #1 seed and getting beat by the #16 seed
- Coach Vanderveer gives Jerry homework
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