• Student-athlete: The student-athlete experience has to be the most important thing and providing them with the most positive experience. We always have that in mind: “how is this going to affect the student-athlete experience and what will it do for them?”

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• Resources: Making sure our staff does not compare themselves to the other UW schools, as we are the smallest with only 6,000 students. We have to constantly find new resources for our teams, new ways to provide for them.

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• Staff development: Creating ways to support our staff, we're really big on professional development. We find affordable professional development services as we don’t ever want to get stagnant. It's important to find ways to continue to develop our skill set as a department.

  • We must understand that even though a coach has been here 20 years, he or she can still get better.