num_pages: 248
description: The MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW  "BEYOND MEMOIR OF A WOMEN'S SOCCER COACH is a breezy, insightful, and humorous  look at contemporary women's college sports and college life written from the  biographical perspective of an athlete (college football) and a scholar  (English professor). BEYOND WINNING is laced with humor, irony, and engaging  dialogue as we follow the team's debut season from its early practice sessions  to its last game. BEYOND WINNING goes to the practice fields, the games, the  classrooms, the coach's office, the field house, the campus snack bar, and on  road trips to neighboring colleges. Hanna comments on important issues in  women's and men's sports, 'jockships' versus scholarships, winning and losing,  recruiting and participation at the varsity level and more. BEYOND WINNING is  very rewarding reading for anyone interested in college athletics and a rousing  good memoir for the rest of us."______________________________."BEYOND WINNING is the story of Dr. S. S. Hanna, an English professor by trade, and his successful attempt to start a women's soccer program from scratch at tiny Geneva College in Pennsylvania. [Hanna's] story is one that we need to hear. It is the tale of a professor and students whose dedication to amateur athletics was so intense that they played on despite the lack of proper facilities and equipment, little funding, and almost no initial institutional support. It is, in short, a book that gives one a glimpse of college coaches, professors, and athletes acting the way they would if college sports were truly about education, personal growth, and amateur ideals." Professor Donald Deardorff in the book   A Reference Guide and Critical  Commentary, 1980-1999.
language: English
title: Beyond Winning: Memoir of a Women's Soccer Coach
titlecomplete: Beyond Winning: Memoir of a Women's Soccer Coach
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado