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Spain's Mengual eyes coaching after retirement
Posted: February 15, 2012 at 4:32 pm
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish synchronised swimmer Gemma Mengual has said she is considering going into coaching after announcing her retirement Wednesday following a career that made her one of the Iberian nation's most successful athletes.
The 34-year-old, who is known as "la sirena," or the "the mermaid," won almost 40 medals in European, world and Olympic competition and originally intended to make her comeback at the London Olympic Games after taking time out to have a child.
She told an emotional news conference in Barcelona on Wednesday she had reversed her decision because she no longer felt fulfilled in a sport which she said had given her more than she could ever have hoped.
"In the long term, definitely yes," Mengual said when asked about a coaching career.
"I am retiring now from a sport that has made me happy and through which I have made others happy and I am retiring without suffering any injury," she added.
"There are still some things I have not achieved. I have never won an Olympic gold, but that's life."
Mengual won two silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in the duet and team events, and the London Games would have been her fourth.
She also led Spain to gold in the free combination event at the 2009 world championships, after which she took time out to have a son.
(Writing by Iain Rogers in Madrid, editing by Justin Palmer)
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Episode 86 – Backslide – What You Must Know To Avoid Failure – Joe White – Get Life Coaching – Video
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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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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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Updated Feb 14, 2012 1:21 PM ET
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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