Full court press
a season in the life of a winning basketball team and the women who made it happen
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Word Count
75,750 words, Guess
Page Count
303 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefullcourtpressse00kess
- Internet Archivefullcourtpressse0000kess
- ISBN-100525940359
- ISBN-139780525940357
- Goodreads1096637
Classifications
- DDC796.32/363/0979531
- LCCGV885.43.U56 K47 1997
- LCCGV885.43.U56K47 1997
Description
When Jody Runge, a young and ambitious basketball coach, arrived at the University of Oregon in the spring of 1993, she found the team - the Oregon Ducks - demoralized by its worst season in almost two decades, and ignored and underfunded in a male-dominated athletic department. The pressure on Runge was enormous: The Ducks had to earn the respect and recognition they needed to become a force in their league or decline into complete obscurity. While fighting a legal. Battle with the university administration for equal funding and support, Runge worked against the clock to improve the team's strategy and its collegiate standing. In the process, she taught the players the importance of self-esteem and commitment, and instilled in them a thirst for winning. As the players struggled with the pain of defeat, Runge put her career on the line by challenging the rules of collegiate politics. Game by game, the ragtag team built the strength. That took them further than they ever thought they could go. And behind the scenes, their coach was maneuvering through a different, tough game of move and countermove, legal smarts, and gutsy cool against an establishment that wouldn't give in - until it had to.
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