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Adoption affects life, coaching style

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Texas State Softball Head Coach Ricci Woodard knows about tough love. She is a mother, after all.

The woman entering her twelfth season at the helm of the softball program has experienced a lot in her tenure, but nothing has had as big of an impact on her as the adoption of two young boys, Joey and Alex.

“It changed my approach to life,” Woodard said. “It has made this more of a job instead of my life. We’ve won multiple conference championships in a row since I adopted them, so maybe it has helped me learn how to separate my job and my life.”

Since Woodard was named head coach in 2000, the softball team has never placed lower than third place. The Bobcats have appeared in three straight National Collegiate Athletic Association tournaments and won five Southland Conference regular-season titles.

Assistant Coach Patti Brun has been with the Bobcats for six seasons, and noticed a change in Woodard from the time she started with the program and after the adoption.

“Some former players have said they think she is so much softer now,” Brun said. “But it has changed her perspective. It used to be much tougher in the day-to-day operation. Now, the little things don’t matter as much.”

While the little things may matter less, the big picture is still very much in Woodard’s mind.
“What I look back and see is all the second-place finishes we had that could have been first place finishes,” Woodard said. “And that’s not a knock on the players. The only way the team is not successful is if they don’t push themselves to the next level. This year, this team has the ability to do something special.”

Chandler Hall, senior pitcher and outfielder, is a big reason for the team’s recent successes, and has played for Woodard her entire college career.

“To me the greatest thing about Coach Woodard is how much she actually cares about each player,” Hall said. “She constantly checks on me on and off the field to see how I’m doing, and at the end of the season she tells me how much she appreciates me.”

The Bobcats have big expectations for this year as they look to advance past the first round of the NCAA tournament and earn national recognition. Their schedule opened against several national powerhouse programs. Woodard knows that to be the best, you have to beat the best.

“For us to go to the next level, we have to beat (Texas, Baylor, and Texas A&M),” Woodard said. “We break it down. Focus on winning this game, this inning, this pitch.”

Even though her focus remains on the game of softball, Woodard said she likes to keep things in perspective.

“It’s easy to get caught up in the passion of this game, and maybe I was too passionate and forcing things,” Woodard said. “Now that I’m a little more relaxed in my coaching, the players are more relaxed in their play. Maybe I’m not as intimidating anymore. Adding kids to my life changed my life.”

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Appreciation – A Life Coach Antony Birks Video Affirmation – Life Coaching – Video

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14-02-2012 01:02 http://www.coachantony.com Appreciation - A Life Coach Antony Video Affirmation - Life Coaching "I take a moment each day to reflect on the wonderful things I possess in my home." #coachantony Challenge No. 66: "Appreciation." Spend some time today going around your home and appreciate what wonderful things you possess and love. That vibrational, positive feeling will uplift you - away from the feeling of lack - towards a knowingness that you have more than enough. Welcome to Life Coach Antony - Helping you, Help yourself - Life Coaching The benefits of life coaching and working with a great life coach: A great life coach allows a safe place to explain your story A great life coach helps you clearly defining exactly what it is you want and when A great life coach assists in making real, long-term structural changes in your life A great life coach lets you decide on the pace of forward looking change A great life coach empowers you and yourr decision making decisions Life Coach Antony Birks' Promise and Professionalism: A Life Coach should listen with respect and an empathetic ear A Life Coach to assist you to make forward-looking decisions and understand the consequences of that action Coach Antony will use his wisdom he has gained to further your empowerment Life Coach Antony cares - even between life coaching sessions A message from Life Coach Antony Birks: "Many people I have worked with have returned to have further life coaching session - even after many years. Either ...

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Life Coach Amy Kleine shares about the benefits of Life Coaching in Career Planning – Video

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Woosha ready for life without Suma

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MOVING ON: Eagles coach John Worsfold will no longer have Peter Sumich by his side after the assistant's defection to Fremantle. Picture: Michael Dodge Source: Herald Sun

Peter Sumich won’t be alongside him.

For the first time in his decade-long senior coaching career, Worsfold will be without his trusted right-hand man as West Coast prepares for battle in two shortened NAB Cup games against Essendon and Fremantle.

Sumich, who won two premierships as a player and one as an assistant coach with the Eagles, joined the Dockers’ coaching staff last October in a major coup for the port club.

But Worsfold said the pair had been able to maintain their friendship despite being on opposite sides of one of the AFL’s most fierce rivalries.

“Suma and I… we have a relationship where we don’t need to ring each other each week to say hello,” Worsfold said.

“We catch up irregularly, whether that’s in person or over the phone.

“Nothing’s really changed in my relationship with Sum, and we don’t talk in code or anything like that when we talk - we both talk openly about issues we have.”

Worsfold compared the situation to his relationship with Gold Coast coach and fellow duel-premiership defender Guy McKenna.

“I can go a couple of months without hearing from Bluey - they’re usually the best two months of the year,” Worsfold joked.

“We’re mates and we have good relationships but we’re pretty flat-out doing our jobs.”

The West Coast coach admitted it was “different” beginning pre-season training without his long-time assistant, but said Sumich’s departure had opened the door for new coaching opportunities at the club.

“It’s not strange (without Sumich),” Worsfold said.

“As much as I like him, I'm not fretting. It was different.

“(Development coach) Adrian Hickmott has been brilliant, so that’s someone who’s got an opportunity to get back into the AFL system with the movement of coaches that goes on.”

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Former Lincoln, Manatee football coach Eddie Shannon elected to FHSAA Hall of Fame

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BRADENTON -- Eddie Shannon will turn 90 on March 7, and he just might have the best birthday party of his life.

The diminutive giant received what might be the biggest news of his life Tuesday when he learned he was voted into the Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.

Many will tell you it was long overdue. Shannon kind of feels that way, but he won’t say it, at least not publicly. It’s not his way of doing things.

But still he couldn’t hide his excitement after receiving the news.

“I feel good it’s a long time coming. I am happy about it,” Shannon said. “I never thought I would make it, but so many people played a role in it. I want to thank Mike Knowles the most. He got the things going.”

The 5-foot-3 giant of a man goes into the hall as coach/contributor stemming from the combined 34 years he spent coaching football and teaching at the old Lincoln Memorial High School and then Manatee High.

He officially retired from teaching and coaching at Manatee in 1987 but says, “I never retired from the team.”

Shannon lost just two games in his seven years as the Lincoln head football coach before the school was closed in 1969 for integration and students went to Manatee and Palmetto.

Shannon coached some of the area greats, including Ray Bellamy, who broke a color barrier when he went to Miami and became the first African-American to play football at a major college in the South. He coached Henry Lawrence, Manatee County’s greatest professional football player who spent 13 years in the NFL and won three Super Bowls.

“I wrote a letter recommending him. He deserves it because of all the things he did to promote peace and harmony and the way he coached kids to be respectful,” says Ed Dick, who recruited Bellamy for Miami. “He brought peace to Manatee High when the crazies were out there with guns. People would’ve been hurt if Shannon and Lawrence had not calmed things down.”

Despite all the accolades on the field, Shannon’s greatest achievement might have come in 1969, when he become the unofficial peacemaker during the turbulence that shook Manatee High during its first year of integration.

Shannon put in 15 years at Lincoln and 19 at Manatee. In his typical modest ways, he said he is thankful to the kids at Manatee from both races who chose to listen to him. But he made it that way.

People still talk about a day in 1969 when there was a near riot at Manatee High and Eddie was home sick with the flu. He got a call from the principal because it was thought only Shannon could stop the chaos. He did.

“I lost my color when they called me,” Shannon recalled. “I was the go-between and the whole thing in a nutshell is that kids had to find out they could do things together.”

Shannon’s list of laurels is long.

He was the personal trainer to tennis great Althea Gibson, he carried the Olympic Torch for the 1996 Olympics, and in 2004 he received the Manatee County Distinguished Citizen Award.

“I don’t know how to compare going into the hall of fame to the other things, but I know it’s great and it’s a good feeling. You can’t compare them because everything is different,” he said.

Knowles, a longtime Manatee High coach and FHSAA hall of famer, started the ball rolling with the nominating process. The candidacy picked up steam with people from all walks of life in the Manatee County community, including several judges and high ranking public figures joining the movement.

“What he has done for kids in Manatee County from all walks of life is incredible,” Knowles said. “I took up this because of all the things I kept hearing from people in the black community and outside of it. He certainly deserves it.”

Shannon, who will inducted during ceremonies in April, is the third Manatee County resident to go into the FHSAA Hall of Fame, joining Knowles and former Manatee High principal and head football coach Wheeler Leeth, who went in as an administrator.

“I am very excited for Eddie and his family and the whole Lincoln Memorial Community,” Knowles said. “It’s a great thing. The state has done a good job of recognizing those who worked hard, are good people and loved kids. Eddie Shannon is a perfect example of that kind of person.”

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Coaching couple calls it quits together

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The job offer came on Oct. 7, 1991, and Marty Cooper knew he had to take it. It wasn’t big-time basketball, just a junior college in Mississippi, but it was a head-coaching gig. No more graduate assistant work, no more sitting in the third assistant’s seat for the women’s team at Miami of Ohio. This was his opportunity, his own program. Finally, his own program.

It was all happening so quickly. Practice would start the following week, his first game less than a month away. And then there was his fiancee Jennifer, a former women’s basketball player at Miami whom he first met as her coach and fell in love with after her senior year. They had been engaged a few months, but the plan was to wait a while for marriage. The phone call from East Central Community College had suddenly changed that timetable.

“Mississippi is the Bible Belt,” Cooper said. “I wasn’t going to be able to bring someone I was engaged to. I had to be married. So I got the job on Oct. 7. On Oct. 9, we got married in her mom’s living room. On Oct. 11, we started practice.”

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Cara Moore – Life Coaching – what it is and its benefits – Video

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13-02-2012 14:27 Confused about what life coaching is and how it can help you? This video will demystify this and explain its life changing benefits.

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FHL Coaching Spotlight

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February 14, 2012 - Federal Hockey League (FHL) Chris Firriolo likes to talk about the sport he loves but sometimes you can also get him to discuss the other things he's done in his life.

Invariably, the subject will always revert to hockey.

No matter where Firriolo has been and what he has done in the past, all roads lead back to hockey for the 45-year-old head coach and team President of the Federal League's first-place New Jersey Outlaws.

All roads. And there have been many.

Firriolo's resume includes playing minor league baseball in the Montreal Expos' organization with Jamestown (New York) of the New York-Penn League and with West Palm Beach of the Florida State League in the mid 80s as well as playing Junior A hockey in North York, Ontario at a time when few Americans played at that level in Canada.

"When I graduated from high school I had an opportunity to go to college, a Division One college hockey scholarship or baseball scholarship and it was interesting because I was at the crossroads of my life and I chose baseball," said Firriolo who played third base and did some pitching with a low-90s fastball.

"I lasted thirty days in school cause I missed hockey so much so I left to go play junior hockey in Canada and when I got back that summer-I was eighteen-I was offered a free agent contract with the Montreal Expos in their minor league system," added Firriolo.

"And in the next couple years after that I was going back and playing junior hockey and playing baseball back and forth. My true passion was hockey. I was probably a better hockey player."

Firriolo, a 6-2, 195 pound defenseman who said his best attribute as a hockey player was that he had a good head for the game, was invited to Western Professional Hockey League and East Coast League training camps but stayed with baseball after he finished his junior hockey career because of the money.

"I was...do I pursue what I really loved or do I continue to make money playing baseball? It was a really hard decision and I ended up choosing to earn a living," he said.

"For me like it was a situation where it was all about money and longevity and then when I stopped playing ball one of my old coaches called me and I got right into coaching hockey and I've been coaching now forever."

The road took yet another turn for Firriolo who went back to college and graduated from Farleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey with a fine arts degree in the early 90s.

"I left the sports world for a while and I worked in the film and theater industry as a writer and director for about six years," said Firriolo.

His work as the artistic director of a professional regional theater company in New Jersey was quite extensive. "I've probably directed over sixty professional stage productions, 19 Shakespearean productions," said Firriolo.

While he has never personally visited the city of Cannes on the French Riviera, the movie Firriolo wrote, produced and directed, "Color of Love" made it there to the famous Cannes Film Festival where it premiered in 1999.

"Color of Love" is the story of two friends, one white and one black, whose lives take divergent paths, something the author certainly has enough experience with to write about.

Though he may one day return to the theater, directing the fortunes of hockey teams was ultimately where the Manhattan-born father of two teenage sons belonged.

"I was in New Jersey for a while early on in my coaching career," he said. "I took this U18 [under 18] Select team to travel all over North America playing an 80-game schedule against the top players in the world. That was fun because you really had a chance to have a direct impact on young guys' lives as hockey players and young men."

In addition to Select teams, Firriolo coached Oswego of the Junior A Ontario Provincial Hockey League, Syracuse of the Eastern Junior League and Team Ontario in the pre-draft showcase in Boston.

"Every year before the NHL draft they take the top players in the Province of Ontario, the Province of Quebec, Minnesota, Michigan, they come down to Boston to the pre-draft showcase. They play in front of all the NHL scouts. I worked with the guys in Boston so I used to coach the Ontario team. All those guys every year, like eighteen out of twenty guys were first or second round draft picks. It was impressive.

"Over the years I've probably coached over about two or three hundred NHL draft picks. And then I've coached five or six hundred NCAA divisional players. It's a labor of love."

Firriolo became a professional coach with the Brooklyn Aces of the Eastern Professional Hockey League in 2008-09 when he was contacted by Curt Russell who offered him a job coaching the New Jersey Rockhoppers. He also mentioned Brooklyn as another possibility. Firriolo chose Brooklyn which eventually lost the EPHL championship playoff series to New Jersey in three games after finishing first in the regular season.

"It was a good, fun year. We had a very good team that year," said the coach.

The EPHL folded after one season and Firriolo moved on to Danbury where he led the Whalers to a near upset of the first-place New York (now Brooklyn) Aviators in the first round of the FHL playoffs last year, losing the decisive fifth game in overtime on the road.

"We should have won that game," said Firriolo. "We were playing short [due to injuries]. We were winning 3-2 with eight minutes left. We had one natural defenseman. We had to move three guys back. I think Nicky Grove scored to tie it up. When it went into overtime I said Matt Puntureri is going to beat us in overtime."

Firriolo was absolutely right which is probably why he made Puntureri the first player acquired by the Outlaws in a cash deal last May.

After working with team owners Alan Friedman and Herm Sorcher in both Brooklyn and Danbury, Firriolo felt it was time to move on.

"I left there for a number of reasons," he said, "but my answer on the record is going to be just it was time. For me, like, I enjoyed building the program with those guys but from a career standpoint and what was best for my family being closer to home-it's just five minutes from where I live [Montville, NJ]-and I get to see my boys every day and it's just better for my family.

"It has nothing to do with those guys and I wish them the best of luck. I'm proud of what they're doing there and we obviously play them, the enemy, but I always wish those two guys all the success in the world. They're two good guys."

Firriolo is now very happy working for team owner Kristin Ann Rooney, an attorney from Arizona.

"We have an owner who's allowed me to do what I need to do to be successful in the sense of being supportive and making the decisions," he said. "Sometimes owners want their hand in the pot making some of the hockey decisions and she's kind of said, hey, you've got more experience than most, you've been successful and I'm going to give you the reins."

Reins firmly in hand, Firriolo has put together a team that is statistically dominating the FHL with a .814 win percentage through 43 games (37-6, 105 points) to lead its nearest rival by 19 points and leads the league in power play percentage (28.04). New Jersey is second to 1000 Islands in penalty killing (84.44-83.93).

Goaltender Adam Dekker is 16-4 with a 2.60 goals against average and leads the league with four shutouts and a .924 save percentage while Dan McWhinney is 20-3, leads the FHL with a 2.56 goals against average and has a .921 save percentage.

Four of the top eight scorers in the Federal League belong to the Outlaws though Jeff Winchester, acquired from 1000 Islands, has played only three games for his new team so far. He is a whopping +67 with 67 points on 15 goals and 52 assists. Travis Kauffeldt has 36 goals, 47 assists, 83 points and is +42 while Kevin Cooper has 80 points (36 goals, 44 assists, +51). Puntureri is +27 with 16 goals and 43 assists for 59 points.

Firriolo rightfully takes enormous pride in his sons Anthony (13) and Chris (15) and says, "I feel very blessed."

He adds, "Anthony is a very, very good hockey player. He's probably right now at his age probably five times better than I was at that age and Chris is a phenomenal soccer player and a pretty good basketball player."

Firriolo feels pride in his hockey team too.

"We've got a great group of guys. This is the best core guys I've had in the locker room. They've got a lot of experience at the pro level. Our record speaks for itself," he said.

"If we achieve our goal at the end of the year and win a championship it's going to be because these guys worked their tails off."

The coach has also worked his tail off, not only putting the team together but helping put the league together in the beginning, another surprise on his resume.

Federal League Commissioner Don Kirnan, a big Yankee fan, remembers attending a game in the Bronx when the league was in the planning stage and driving home to Syracuse in a terrible storm, arriving very early in the morning.

Firriolo was there waiting to meet Kirnan when he got home so they could hit the road to check out new cities and arenas for the league.

"I told Chris I needed two hours sleep," said Kirnan. "He said he'd drive the first two hours."

There's that road again. The road that brings Chris Firriolo back to hockey every time.

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Latest Coaching Additions to the New York Jets: A Fan's Opinion

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The smoke has finally started to settle in the New York Jets organization. Amid all of the locker room drama, coaching decisions were made. The bones of the team are in place. Lots of new faces will be on Gang Green's sideline this upcoming season. Like it or not, here are some of the newest members to the Jet's 2012 coaching staff.

Tony Sparano, offensive coordinator

The hiring of Tony Sparano came as a surprise to me. While I was glad to see Brian Schottenheimer leave, I am not sure that Sparano is the right guy for New York. His overall performance with the Miami Dolphins was not great—especially before he was fired during the 2011 season.

Sparano did have a couple of good seasons with Miami before it fell apart. Time will tell if he can get the Jets to the Super Bowl. If he can give the offense a clear vision and work with Mark Sanchez's strengths—New York could see a post-season in 2012.

Karl Dunbar, defensive line coach

It was the defense that got the Jets to an 8-8 season. Without them their record would have been abysmal as the offense was broken. Karl Dunbar is heading to New York after spending six seasons with the Minnesota Vikings. His record with the Vikings is impressive and he has the ability to make New York's defense the best in the NFL.

Justus Galac and Paul Ricci, assistant strength and conditioning coaches

Justus Galac is coming to the New York Jets from Villanova where he was the strength and conditioning coach. He does not have NFL coaching experience—but that should not be an issue.

Paul Ricci has some NFL experience with the Seattle Seahawks and Philidelphia Eagles. His latest position was with Texas Tech, as the Director of Basketball Performance.

I have high hopes for the New York Jets in 2012. The new coaches bring great experience to a struggling team. If they can get the players under control, Gang Green might make it to the post-season.

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