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Are you experiencing discord with parents or players. Have you felt you were unfairly portrayed in your student evaluations? We can help. Are you an administrator trying to navigate how to create a better line of communications and trust with your coaching staff? We can help.
Fearless Coach is not legal advice but as a coach with experience in Title IX, unfair employment practices in athletics, leadership and expert in athlete behavior through DISC profiling. I can offer support on next steps and workshops.
Life in coaching feels like it is becoming far more complex than it was even a decade ago. Instead of regarding this generation of athletes as entitled or "not like we were", I want to share with you the ways in which to either face, address or move with the changes of coaching today's athlete. I invite you to be a Fearless Coach with me.
FOUNDER: BECKY CARLSON
Being in NCAA college coaching for more than a decade, I am passionate about being a leader in not only Women's NCAA Rugby, but am concerned about the health and welfare of our coaching population.
As a public speaker, equality advocate and coach, I have grown tired of the abundance of resources for sport specific technical skill building and sitting at endless seminars only to be left with no solutions on how to survive in this profession with this generation. Our athletes are losing their ability to communicate with each other and therefore, with us. I am interested in connecting and assisting other coaches who are challenged daily through this profession with today's generation.
Athletics remains a staple in a long line of vehicles used to create social change. I am a firm believer that if we have truthful conversations with the next generation, both male and female about equity and treatment, we can solve unfair hiring and ethical practices in athletics. Ultimately this will lead us to a healthier society with both women and men having equal representation in law making, policy development and in the workforce. If you are having trouble as a coach finding your voice and asking for more, please connect with me. We can all learn from one another.
August 11, 2019
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This is it freshmen college athletes. You are about to embark on your intercollegiate career as a student-athlete. The word student-athlete implies that you are a student first but let's be honest,...
July 8, 2019
As a college coach and three-time national champion, I recall the day in 2010 when our women's NCAA Rugby program was reluctantly added to our university's sponsorship docket after a lengthy Title IX lawsuit. Since then, there has been and will continue to be hard conv...
June 1, 2019
The famous debate cycle described in three words.
History repeats itself.
This phrase and its application is found in just about every corner of our history as a society. While stock market, civil rights, social movements, politics and fashion are all guilty of this...
April 19, 2019
I hardly ever include men's sports in my writing unless I am making a comparison in treatment but in the spirit of the excessive number of female coach witch hunts taking place at Georgia Tech and UNC, coupled with Muffet McGraw's public statement about empowerment, it...
March 24, 2019
In March of 2019, the story dropped that Coach Machelle Joseph was put on leave by Georgia Tech Athletics. At that time, no one from the athletic department shared why, how or when the investigation into the program would likely conclude. Since then, there have been ar...
March 3, 2019
Dear Coach,
You may not know me, but have probably heard of me. I am the female coach you are replacing. My team is now yours.
I was the coach being quickly ushered out of the building during your interview because this is how far in advance the administration knew t...
February 12, 2019
In May of 2018, three student-athletes from UMKC softball shared with university officials allegations of sexual harassment by their assistant coach, Greg Bachkora.
Less damning than Bachkora admitting these allegations were true is the fact that the university failed...
January 1, 2019
In my first year as a head college coach I was allotted a 10k part time assistant to build a brand new D-I program. I was offered 20k less than the average salary of other head coaches in the conference and thankfully did not accept without some fair negotiation. To ge...
November 20, 2018
Talent is often followed by attention while leadership is lonely. The ability to lead is not a universal skill but more and more I have discovered that vocal student leaders who are assertive, self-starters are becoming the unicorns of higher education and more notably...
October 29, 2018
A few months ago my phone rang and a 15-year professor and friend with countless awards for teaching was on the other end sounding desperate. With rave reviews and a fan club of students who return year after year with gratitude, this professor shared that they were un...
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