Dr. Jen Welter is a trailblazer in the world of sports, making history as the first female coach in the NFL. A former professional football player, she made her mark on the gridiron as a standout linebacker for the Texas Revolution in the Indoor Football League. Welter's groundbreaking coaching c...

Meg and Dr G. welcome Dr. Sophia Jowett & Ian Goldberg to discuss coach-athlete relationships. Sophia is a Professor of Psychology at Loughborough University, specializing in coach-athlete relationships. Ian Goldberg is the Founder and CEO of iSport360, an app that allows coaches to set goals, po...

Alex Sarama is a basketball coach/consultant and the founder of Transforming Basketball. Alex began his coaching at the age of 14, and has since dedicated himself to implement research based coaching. In this episode Meg and Dr. G learn about the Constraint Led Approach and Ecological Dynamics an...

Allison Maurer is a Sports Dietician who has advised multiple sporting organizations including the Pittsburgh Pirates and the University of Tennessee. She is currently the Associate Athletic Director for Student Health and Wellness at Knoxville Catholic High School. In this episode, Allison provi...

Join us on this episode of Sideline as we sit down with the renowned Coach Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. With over two decades of coaching experience and a storied career as an NFL quarterback, Coach Harbaugh shares his unique perspective on leadership, coaching, and develo...

Sara Doell is the esteemed Head Women's Golf Coach at the University of San Francisco, renowned for her unwavering passion and dedication to the sport. With a profound understanding of golf's nuances and strategic brilliance, she has steered her team to unprecedented success. A former professiona...

Chantal Vallée is the Head Coach of the Windsor Lancers Women’s Basketball program. Chantal inherited a team with only 4 winning seasons in 50 years and went on to win 5 consecutive National Championships. Dr. Gordon Bloom is a Professor and Director of the Sport Psychology Research Laboratory in...

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Try to recall the best coach you’ve ever had. Consider what differentiated them from other coaches; what made them so effective? Was it their knowledge and program...

Winning can be the most important thing to many teams and organizations, coaches and athletes, and parents and fans, but it can cause devastating problems, including psychological, social, and physical harm or injury. Meg and Dr. G discuss what defines quality in coaching and how athletes, coache...

Four of the players on the 1998 Stanford cardinals share how their friendship carried them all the way to the final four. Through packed stadiums, screaming fans, and performance anxiety, these teammates supported each other and their common goal. The four share their thoughts on the final game i...

The soccer phenomenon from Boston College tells of his eventful career in women’s soccer and the struggles he faced. In a time where women’s collegiate sport was just beginning, LaVigne recaps the many struggles and obstacles he overcame to get the program off the ground.
We’ll learn how the NCA...

Alison Foley shares her experience of becoming a parent while being a coach at a D1 school. However, she is far from limiting herself to just those two roles. Foley found that her starting experience as a coach transferred not only to parenting, but to writing, starting a yoga program for soccer ...

In an effort to preserve the "amateur" status, the NCAA struggles to stay in step with their own profit versus the rights of their athletes.
The NCAA announced that their college athletes will have the opportunity to benefit from their name, image and likeness beginning Thursday. Governance bod...

Santa Cruz Warriors’ head coach Kris Weems shares his journey through all levels of basketball, including the coaching keys that got him to the pros. Get a inside look at what it takes to be a professional on both the players’ side, and the coaches’. Coach Weems first dives into his own developme...

In this episode of SPORTLiGHT’s Sport Report, Meg and Dr. G interview the University of Denver’s head Men’s Lacrosse coach, Bill Tierney. Coach Tierney’s lifetime accomplishments include thirty-six years of coaching, seven national championships, twenty-seven regular season and conference tournam...

Baseball phenomenon Fred Corral shares his experience transitioning from a player to a coach and the philosophies he’s adopted along the way. He’ll dive into topics such as player and athlete development, athlete identity, and balancing winning and development. Corral shares the pressures of bein...

Rodney Billups explains his journey to coaching college basketball and his priorities of mental toughness, coach-ability and character. coach and former professional player gives his unique perspective on coaching.

NCAA rules state an athlete cannot be a paid influencer despite their mass followings, but is that fair?

The NCAA is a form of multiple "companies" who regulate the sport. What role does Congress play in that?

NCAA & Amateurism
Prospective student-athletes enrolling for the first time at a Division I or II school must receive a final amateurism certification before being eligible to compete. This ...

Dr. Coakley talks about how each state legislature affects NIL, and how no two states are the same.
It is critical that college sports are regulated at a national level. This ensures the uniformity of rules and a level playing field for student-athletes. Some of these laws allow for nearly unregu...

Life skills and financial training is only the first step in acclimating a high school athlete into their new college athlete status.
Starting at midnight on July 1, when name, image, and likeness rights officially went into effect, college athletes across the country began announcing a flurry of...

Parents, coaches, and athletes themselves are facing a reckoning with a culture of sports success models, and hyper specialization in youth sports. The negative effects are having an effect on the future of sport. Dr. Jay Coakley lends his insight to help all sports professionals make informed...

Dr. Jay Coakley relays the fascinating historical influences on organized sports in the early 20th century. Political motivations for assimilation and patriotism fostered youth leagues and the gave rise to the massive institutions we see today. This insight full context is not to be missed.

As the perception of parenting moral worth has changed, so has parents' emphasis on their children's success in youth sports. Dr. Jay Coakley and Meg reflect on these sociological changes and the real implications to youth athletic enjoyment, injury, and self-worth.