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05-05-2012 13:37 Something I'm learning through my coaching sessions: sometimes people are only one conversation away from making progress. Also, two things that are cheering me up right now. 🙂

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Reynaud Alexander has dedicated his life to teaching young black women to run fast. So, it should come as no surprise that Alexander, a 72-year-old retired track and field coach, refuses to slow down.

He plans to attend the Southwestern Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships at Tad Gormley Stadium this weekend, and he surely wont resist the temptation to impart a bit of coaching wisdom on the competitors.

I tell my athletes that the key to success is about balancing intensity and volume, said Alexander, who was born and reared in New Orleans. You dont want to burn out too early.

And judging by a lifetime of accomplishments as a coach, teacher and civil rights activist, Alexander has maintained a strict adherence to this credo.

He is an exceptionally giving person, and he cares about everybody, said his wife, Loretta Alexander. I have to fight for time because he is always so giving of himself to everyone else.

Alexander has been coaching for more than 50 years and said he routinely receives calls from parents wanting him to mentor their daughters. He ran track at Southern, served as head coach at McDonogh High School from 1980 to 1991 and as an assistant coach at Mississippi State from 1991 to 2002 before retiring.

During the past year, Alexander has stepped away from his role as volunteer coach at Higgins High School and New Era (AAU) Track and Field Club, focusing instead on his family. He now bides his time coaching grandsons Donovan Carraby, 11, and Niles Cosey, 8.

Hes always so busy, said Carraby, an aspiring baseball star. It means a lot to me that my grandfather can help me with my speed.

Glynn Alexander, who was a defensive back at Grambling State and with the Buffalo Bills, said coaching is in his older brothers DNA.

Its in his nature, Glynn Alexander said. Hes always been involved in coaching.

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A volleyball coach investigated for sexual harassment in Texas is the top choice to take over the prestigious volleyball program at Pojoaque Valley High School.

Michael Littlejohn, the Elkettes' coach-in-waiting, said in a phone interview Friday that he engaged in behavior and made comments to Borger High School employees that could be interpreted as sexual harassment, but denied more serious allegations made by six accusers.

According to a 2011 Borger internal investigation, accusers said Littlejohn, 56, made inappropriate comments, improperly interacted with minors, indecently touched an assistant coach's breast and sent her illicit text messages. He was placed on paid administrative leave at the school on Sept. 15 while the investigation was ongoing. He resigned Feb. 9.

The allegations, made by a former assistant coach and five current district employees, cover a two-year span.

At Borger, 50 miles northeast of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, Littlejohn admitted making inappropriate jokes and touching some of his players during workouts, but disputed sending his former assistant coach illicit text messages or touching her breast.

"I didn't think it was sexual harassment," Littlejohn said.

Littlejohn said he disclosed the allegations to Pojoaque athletic director Matt Martinez, but refused to say when.

Martinez said last week that Littlejohn, the former Texico volleyball coach who retired after being reassigned following 29 years with the program, was recommended by the Pojoaque coaching search committee and is waiting for a teaching opening.

Martinez, who is on the coaching search committee, said Friday he was aware of the allegations, but didn't say to what extent. When asked if Pojoaque planned to move forward with hiring Littlejohn, Martinez said, "That's a personnel issue. I'm not going to answer that. You're going to have to ask somebody else about that."

Then he hung up the phone.

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Seven BCS-level jobs in college basketball opened this offseason for reasons that spanned from terminations (Illinois) to retirements (Mississippi State). But they're all filled now. And what we were reminded once again from this annual carousel is that convincing a safe and content BCS coach to voluntarily leave one school for another is among the sport's most difficult tasks.

It almost never happens.

The proof is in the numbers.

Just one power-conference school was able to hire a power-conference head coach this offseason, and the only reason it happened is because said power-conference head coach, Frank Martin, decided he'd rather take what is a historically bad SEC job and try to compete with John Calipari and Billy Donovan than work at Kansas State another day under athletic director John Currie. I realize Martin has denied this in the sense that he's claimed there was never a real rift between him and his old boss. But that's just Martin taking the high road. The truth is that he and Currie went together about as well as Amar'e Stoudemire and glass. So while it's true that moving from Manhattan (Kansas) to Columbia (South Carolina) gets Martin and his wife closer to their East Coast roots, it's also true that Martin would still likely be KSU's coach if he didn't spend the past year frustrated by his buttoned-up AD.

But whatever.

I'm not here to write about Frank Martin.

I'm here to once and for all convince ADs and fans that the key to your school not looking silly during a coaching search is to set reasonable sights on one of these three things:

1. Coaches who are out of coaching 2. BCS assistants 3. Non-BCS head coaches not named Mark Few, Brad Stevens or Shaka Smart.

If you're not shopping for a coach on one of those aisles you're almost certainly shopping on the wrong aisle and wasting time. For proof consider that just five of the 32 BCS-level jobs that have opened over the past three years were filled with BCS-level head coaches, and that none of them was filled by Few, Stevens or Smart. The only BCS-level head coaches who have voluntarily changed jobs over the past three offseasons are Martin (KSU to South Carolina), Mike Anderson (Missouri to Arkansas), Oliver Purnell (Clemson to DePaul), Frank Haith (Miami to Missouri) and Mark Turgeon (Texas A&M to Maryland), and Turgeon is the lone person of the group who left purely for basketball reasons.

Martin hated his boss. Anderson wanted to move back to Arkansas. Haith probably only had one year left at Miami. And Purnell, well, he just decided to take a big check and the city of Chicago rather than remain in South Carolina, and, with all due respect to South Carolina, who could blame him? Chicago is a great place to live. A big check makes it better. And at DePaul these days, nobody cares if you lose in the NCAA tournament (or if you even make it). Pressure is nonexistent, which must be nice for a man approaching 60 years old. OP is living the good life. We should all be so lucky.

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One of the most common goals Ive worked on with life coaching clients in the last decade is to develop and nurture their spirituality.

As one who has been on this blessed journey myself, I enjoy seeing others blossom in this area of their lives. This goal usually takes the shape of deepening the childhood religion the client learned, perhaps paying it more heed in their harried lives, or exploring other options to learn this individuals best path to the divine.

I am not ordained nor schooled in theology. I take with me some parts of my Christian upbringing, but love to draw from Buddhism, New Thought and some modern spiritual teachers as well. As so many Americans, I feel a divine hand in all of what I do and I am ecstatic to live in a place where this opening and receiving of spirit is possible. As a coach, I particularly like that clients are not just working on career or creative goals, but becoming more well-rounded people.

To be clear, this runs the gamut from a client who wants to, in her words, fulfill the gifts the Holy Spirit has given her to another client who reads tarot cards. Very different approaches to spiritual expression, but similar in that they feel a connection to something bigger than themselves.

There is so much positive about this, so much thats rewarding about it as an aspect of what I do, that when I see religion or spirit being used to legitimize acts of cruelty or manipulation or discrimination on the national stage it stops me cold. This should be a joyful part of us. It should be an open door to soul searching when life hands us big victories or devastating losses and all thats in between.

It shouldnt be wielded as a stick to bash or as a gavel to judge. It shouldnt be imposed.

My clients want to be enriched as people. They want to give themselves permission to learn the bible more intimately or do a daily meditation from the Tao Te Ching or keep a gratitude journal. I am all too happy to shepherd this, but it certainly gets tested along the way.

In response to a recent Game Plan column, a reader wrote, I have an issue when people such as yourself think that one can pick and choose from religions to suit their own agendas ... I have a source that tells me that there is only one way to God. This gentleman went on to quote the bible. I expressed my respect and admiration for his faith, but noted that I disagreed.

Every so often I receive mail like this and I welcome the diversity, but I also marvel at the arrogance. Note that this reader didnt just share his belief, but put down mine in the process. Some of the best people I know are Christians and yet are comfortable with the idea that other faiths exist and are to be respected.

So much of this has been manifesting these days in the issue of how our country treats homosexuals, both socially and legislatively. A former colleague, a church-going Christian, recently wrote a Facebook post saying how proud he was of his soon-to-be-college student son for coming out as gay. I commented on the post that it made my day.

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04-05-2012 13:36 Hello how are you I am on here to try to help everyone eat better and exercise If you need any help with that email me please do not forget to eat raw organic fruit focusing on the fruit vegetable especially dark leafy greens nuts and seeds and exercise two hours or two miles a day everyday huge hugs remember you are loved huge hugs dedicating all my videos to my mom who passed on to Heaven April 24, 2012 She will be enormously missed.

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