Joy in the journey with Jo Koons
Jo Koons played softball at the University of Utah and is now coaching at the University of Texas at Arlington. She and I were on the coaching staff at the University of Oregon together. She is from Chico, California, so she remembers me when I was a kid playing in the same organization she was playing in. She’s a couple years older than me so she wasn’t on the same team as me. She has a dog named Champion who helps her with recruiting. She loves Jesus, softball and snacks.
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Below are the questions that she answered in the podcast:
Why should athletes go to FCA?
What was the transition out of playing like for you?
How do you help your athletes with transitioning out of sports?
Who are some people that have influenced you?
Why do you like to be a coach?
What’s the story behind “joy in the journey”
Why do you do question of the day?
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