#371 Colleen Munson, Western Michigan Volleyball Head Coach, on Authenticity, Accountability, and Developing Your Own Players Instead of Looking Outside Your Program for Solutions
Friday, 05 April 2024
Colleen Munson concluded her 19th season at the helm of Western Michigan volleyball in 2023. During her tenure at WMU, Munson has posted 10 20-win seasons, including a program-record eight in a row from 2005-12. She has taken the Broncos to the NCAA Tournament in 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2023, including a berth in the
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#360 Tree Beeckman, Coach Educator, Team Culture Specialist, and Former NCAA Volleyball Coach: “When we don’t feel seen we feel judged”
Thursday, 18 January 2024
A highly-respected coach and educator, Theresa “Tree” Beeckman (@tbeeckman13) is the president and founder of Tree Roots Culture Consulting and Camps LCC. She possesses more than two decades of coaching experience at a variety of levels and has built a championship pedigree with success at numerous stops. The longtime collegiate coach served as an assistant
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#315 Hugh McCutcheon, Olympic Gold Medalist Volleyball Coach: “Championship Results Require Championship Behaviors”
Friday, 10 March 2023
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Listen and Watch the Podcast on You Tube: @WayofChampionsPodcast Hugh McCutcheon is a native of New Zealand, where he was national team volleyball player. He played on the New Zealand junior and senior national teams from 1988 to 1990 before coming to the US. He soon began an illustrious coaching career, leading the
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#300 John Kessel Returns: “If You Coach the Person, the Skill Will Develop; if you Coach the Skill, the Person May Not.”
Friday, 25 November 2022
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Listen and Watch the Podcast on You Tube: @WayofChampionsPodcast Thank you for helping us reach 300 episodes of the podcast! To celebrate we will go to one of our earliest guests, and great friend of our work John Kessel. John recently retired from USA Volleyball (USAV), where he had worked since 1985,
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#286 John Kessel, Former USA Volleyball Director of Sport Development: “Lines Teach You How but the Game Teaches You Why!” (replay)
Friday, 19 August 2022
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher John Kessel (@JohnKesselUSAV) is the recently retired Director of Sport Development for USA Volleyball and one of the most sought after coach educators and sport developers in the world. John has been coaching since 1971 at the collegiate level or above, including Women’s U.S. Open titles in 1986 & 1987, Disabled
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#221 “The Better the Relationship, the More You Can Demand” with UNC Volleyball Coach Joe Sagula
Sunday, 23 May 2021
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Joe Sagula has spent the last 40 years as an NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball coach with the University of Pennsylvania and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During that time his teams have won over 800 matches and 17 Conference titles. He is a 9x ACC and Ivy League Coach