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Mike Thibault

Mike Thibault

Mike Thibault is an American Basketball coach. He started his career as a scout with the LA Lakers in 1978, eventually becoming an Assistant Coach. He was working with the team in 1980 when they won the NBA championship. He then moved to the Chicago Bulls where he worked as a Director of Scouting and […]

Matt Thornton

Matt Thornton

Our Great Coach on this episode is Matt Thornton. Matt Thorntoon is a Brazilian Ju Jitsu coach, who has coached some of the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighters in the world. He is the founder of the Straight Blast Gym, where he has developed cross training in several martial arts as well as boxing and […]

Barry Dancer

Barry Dancer

Barry Dancer is a is a former Australian field hockey player and coach of Australian men’s national field hockey team. As a player he competed in 48 international matches for Australia between 1973 and 1979. he was a member of the men’s hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He […]

Guy Molloy

Guy Molloy

Guy Molloy is an Australian Basketball coach who started his professional career in 1989 coaching the Canberra Capitals in the Australian Women’s National League. He then moved on to coach the Perth Breakers and was named coach of the year in 1995. During this time, he also served as an Assistant for the Australian National […]

Al Scates

Al Scates

Al Scates is a former American volleyball player and  coach. As a player, he was selected as a collegiate All American, and also represented the USA National Team. He transitioned into coaching in 1964, and went on to be the head coach of UCLA for 48 years. He went on to become the winningest volleyball coach in […]

Sjoerd Marijne

Sjoerd Marijne

Sjoerd Marijne is a Dutch former field hockey player and now coach. As a player he twice won the Dutch National Championship and Euro Hockey Club Champions Cup. He then transitioned into coaching, first with youth teams, eventually leading the Netherlands U21 women to the gold medal at the World Cup and the U21 men […]

Anson Dorrance

Anson Dorrance

Anson Dorrance is an American soccer coach (in the USA it is referred to as soccer not Football) who is currently the Head Coach of the Women’s Team at the University of North Carolina. Under his leadership the team has won 21 of the 31 NCAA Championships. His teams have a winning record of 91%. […]

Andy Shay

Andy Shay

Andy Shay is a former Lacrosse player who started coaching as an assistant for four years under Greg Cannella at the University of Massachusetts where he helped the team win three New England titles. Then in 2003 he was named the Head Coach of Yale where he has gone on to lead the team to […]