Intercollegiate Tennis Association
Sports:Tennis
Marisa Arce is in her 5th year as a head women’s tennis coach and has nearly completed her first year as the head coach at Depaul University. She started her college coaching career as a volunteer assistant at the University of Oklahoma in 2012 shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois.
In this episode we discuss her decision to start her career as a volunteer, if it was worth it and how she has transitioned from volunteer to assistant coach and on to becoming a head coach. We discuss the challenges of combining college coaching and parenting and how she is navigating her new job, her new-born baby and all the other obligations she is facing at this point in her young coaching career.
Key points of this conversation have been indexed for easy listening here:
2:14 - When did it dawn on you that your career would be as a college tennis coach?
4:20 - What was the feedback you were getting from the programs that you were applying to?
8:35 - What was different about moving into a full-time assistant role?
17:05 - "Better Allies" by Karen Catlin - 37% of Women's Tennis coaches are women.
18:20 - Do you think that a male athletic director would have hired you knowing that you were nine-months pregnant at the time?
23:23 - How do you deal with the struggle of having a family and being a coach? What adjustments did you have to make?
29:05 - Are there any lessons that you apply today that you learned from any of your coaches along the way that you're applying to your team today?
The Volunteers Mindset - Josh Molino, Kansas Wesleyan
Applying Learnings from a Unique Path to College Tennis - Jamea Jackson
Maximizing Player Potential - Joe Gilbert, JMG Tennis Academy
The Power of Community - Davidson Kozlowski, Drake Men’s Tennis
Managing Change, Dr. Timothy Russell
Building Success vs. Sustaining Success - Billy Porter
The Scientific Method - Simon Earnshaw
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The Past, Present & Future with Alison Ojeda (University of Tennessee, Head Women’s Tennis Coach)
Rewriting Your Story; Defining your Culture & Managing Gen Z.
Making Your Program Matter
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