Courting Success: Muffet McGraw's Formula for Winning-- In Sports and in Life

by McGraw, Muffet; Gullifor, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781589790278
• ISBN10: 1589790278
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

The University of Notre Dame's storied tradition as a football power is known far and wide Yet, in the shadows of college's most celebrated sports program, Muffet McGraw has steadily built the women's basketball program into a perennial lorce on the national scene. In the past sixteen seasons, the Fighting Irish women's basketball team has made thirteen postseason appearances, including ten trips to the NCAA tournament, making it the most consistently successful varsity sport at the university. Crown that impressive record of achievement with the 2001 national championship and the evidence is trrelutable -- Notre Dame women's basketball has gone "primetime." Hired in May 1987, McGraw wasted no time in bringing national attention to the women's basketball program. Fourteen of McGraw's sixteen teams at Notre Dame have won twenty-plus games, including four straight in her first four seasons and a current streak of ten straight. Her record of more than 350 vietories and a winning percentage of .725 reflect her determination and dedication, as well as her competitive spirit -- and numerous awards attest to public recognition of Coach McGraw's achievement and talent. In 2001 alone, she garnered the Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year, the Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year, and the Associated Press's Coach of the Year. Also that season, she was Sports Illustrated Women's Coach of the Year and the Big East Conference Coach of the Year. Yet Muffet McGraw is more concerned with the total development of her players than with personal accolades or trophies. In Courting Success, the coach offers a motivational and inspirational book that shares her ingredients for success -- on and off the court. With chapters devoted to accountability, discipline, and how to handle failure and success, this book provides practical direction for those aspiring toward success in basketball -- and in life -- while illustrating why Muffet McGraw is one of college basketball's most respected and accomplished coaches. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ruth Riley	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chapter 1 Accepting Roles	1	(21)
Chapter 2 Accountability	22	(12)
Chapter 3 Discipline	34	(11)
Chapter 4 Respect and Loyalty	45	(6)
Chapter 5 Practice Doesn't Make Perfect	51	(12)
Chapter 6 Why Compete?	63	(8)
Chapter 7 Handling Failure	71	(8)
Chapter 8 Handling Success	79	(13)
Chapter 9 Put the Team First	92	(7)
Chapter 10 Recruiting	99	(18)
Chapter 11 Perspective	117	(4)
About Muffet McGraw	121	(6)
McGraw's Coaching Record	127