Full Court Press: Season Life Winning Basketball Team Women Who Made It Happen

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When Jody Runge, a young and ambitious basketball coach, arrived at the University of Oregon in the spring of 1993, she found the team - the Oregon Ducks - demoralized by its worst season in almost two decades, and ignored and underfunded in a male-dominated athletic department. The pressure on Runge was enormous: The Ducks had to earn the respect and recognition they needed to become a force in their league or decline into complete obscurity. While fighting a legal battle with the university administration for equal funding and support, Runge worked against the clock to improve the team's strategy and its collegiate standing. In the process, she taught the players the importance of self-esteem and commitment, and
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When Jody Runge, a young and ambitious basketball coach, arrived at the University of Oregon in the spring of 1993, she found the team - the Oregon Ducks - demoralized by its worst season in almost two decades, and ignored and underfunded in a male-dominated athletic department. The pressure on Runge was enormous: The Ducks had to earn the respect and recognition they needed to become a force in their league or decline into complete obscurity. While fighting a legal battle with the university administration for equal funding and support, Runge worked against the clock to improve the team's strategy and its collegiate standing. In the process, she taught the players the importance of self-esteem and commitment, and instilled in them a thirst for winning. As the players struggled with the pain of defeat, Runge put her career on the line by challenging the rules of collegiate politics. Game by game, the ragtag team built the strength that took them further than they ever thought they could go. And behind the scenes, their coach was maneuvering through a different, tough game of move and countermove, legal smarts, and gutsy cool against an establishment that wouldn't give in - until it had to.

An unprecedented look inside the women's basketball team at the University of Oregon. Full Court Press celebrates the excitement, the tension, and the drama of women's basketball and explores the meaning of being a female athlete in America today. 288 pp. National publicity. Print ads. 25,000 print.

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Jody Runge took the job of women's basketball coach at the University of Oregon in 1993 and in her first year vitalized a moribund program, even getting an invitation to the NCAA tournament. But the following season is the author's focus here. Kessler (Stubborn Twig), who teaches writing at the university, is a master of her craft. Particularly striking is the in-depth portrait of Runge, who was concerned not only with building a winning team but also with securing a long-term contract and establishing women's basketball as a sport that deserved recognition and decent funding from the male-dominated athletic department. To carry on all these battles, the coach needed almost superhuman fortitude, and somehow she found it in herself to persevere and win all her struggles. Kessler also explores the personalities of the players as they experience good games and bad, moments of joy and of despair. For all her ability to show Runge's strengths, Kessler has not written a hagiography: she makes clear that her subject is an outstanding coach for tough young women but a poor one for players who need stroking and reassurance. (Mar.)
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Writing teacher Kessler (Univ. of Oregon; Stubborn Twig, Dutton, 1994) captures here the dynamics of a women's basketball program. The University of Oregon Ducks are moderately successful, moderately happy, and perennial underdogs. For the uninitiated nonathlete, Kessler explains some basketball intricacies and details the ups and downs, especially of the starting five, with their insecurities, injuries, and shooting slumps. The story, like the team, revolves around coach Jody Runge, who screams at her players, berates them, and tries every motivational tool. This is a riveting page-turner that should appeal not just regionally but to the burgeoning number of women's basketball fans. Recommended for public libraries.-Kathryn Ruffle, Coll. of New Caledonia Lib., Prince George, B.C.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780452274877
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 8/1/1998
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 5.26 (w) x 7.98 (h) x 0.86 (d)

Meet the Author

Lauren Kessler
Lauren Kessler is the author of nine books, among them Stubborn Twig, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year's best work of literary nonfiction. She directs the grad-uate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she lives with her husband and three children.


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