Marquette University Athletics
Terri Mitchell Gives Back to the Community
11/20/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 20, 2006
MILWAUKEE - Marquette head women's basketball coach Terri Mitchell recently participated in two coaching clinics held in Waukesha, Wis. Mitchell spoke at the Christ Kind Basketball Coaching Clinic, as well as the St. Joan of Arc Basketball Clinic.
"I love the opportunity to get out in the community and speak," said Mitchell. "I have been able to be a part of two coaching clinics for two grade schools. The commitment and dedication that men and women make to kids, grade school kids, is outstanding. It was a pleasure to be invited and able to talk to them, because it is such a critcal age."
At both clinics for grade school coaches, Mitchell focused on a christian approach to coaching, coaches as role models, the importance of team and being a good teammate and good sportsmanship.
As an active member of the community, these are just two of many community events Mitchell has been a part of. Mitchell says she enjoys "giving back" to the basketball community, and credits her grade school coach who helped shape her into the player she was and the coach she is today.
"Looking back in my life that I wouldn't be a basketball coach if it wasn't for the influence of my grade school coach Jan Travers," added Mitchell "I fell in love with the game of basketball because of her. If she didn't discline me and love me the way she did, who knows where I would be. I can't emphasis enough to those coaches what kind of a special role they have in their young players' lives. It is privledge and any opportunity I can get to be out in the community I love."
