Create Your Shot: Stephanie Gaitley

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week Tyler and Smallz talk with Stephanie Gaitley of the Fordham women's basketball team. Stephanie is a basketball lifer, she played at Villanova and then immediately went into coaching. A 31 year head coach, she has 584 career wins during her time at Richmond, St. Josephs, LIU Brooklyn, Monmouth and Fordham. 2:46: Tyler and Smallz intro 6:35: Stephanie comes on 7:08: Fordham foreign tour 7:40: Changing as a coach 8:57: Raising a family as a head coach 10:18: Steph's family 10:40: Advice for younger coaches with families 12:50: Flexibility in coaching 14:10: Taking over a program and goal setting 16:10: Handling getting fired 16:45: Faith in coaching 19:30: Reaching out to other coaches 20:46: Relying on your family 22:00: Not being a big yeller 23:00: 100-0 in High school basketball/relationship with HS coaches 24:10: Playing pick-up with her staff 25:53: Changes in women's basketball 28:41: Her future in coaching 30:14: Learning from other coaches 31:45: Hunger in coaching 32:30: Coach Speak: Geno Auriemma 33:31: Blowing a big home lead to Pat Summit Tennessee 34:55: Coach Speak: Stephanie Gaitley 36:48: Owning what you do 38:55: Recruiting philosophies 41:05: City Review: Ocean City, NJ 41:43: Super Liquor in OCNJ 42:40: Living in beach town 43:58: Food options in OCNJ 45:40: Gambling in Atlantic City with Coach Gaitley 46:08: 10 Touches 46:48: Funniest player she's ever coached 47:15: Recruiting Rebecca Lobo against UConn 48:15: Pre-game routine 48:31: Worst travel experience 49:53: Favorite book 50:15: Most intense pick-up game 51:18: Leasing a Mercedes to try and sign Rebecca Lobo 52:24: What would you do if you weren't coaching 52:47: Favorite player of all-time 55:06: Not playing Tennessee at the Palesta 56:30: Favorite man in the family 57:34: Steph interviewing with Fordham in 2011 59:22: Best advice ever given 1:00:44: Face to Face with 25-year-old self

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
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0:15.4	Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come.
0:29.0	On the third episode of Create Your Shot,
0:31.0	Smalls and I talked to Stephanie Gately, head women's basketball coach for
0:34.8	the Fordham Rams.
0:35.9	Stephanie has been a head coach for 31 years at five different schools and has 584 career
0:41.4	wins.
0:42.4	When she took the job in Fordham at 2011 they were just two years removed
0:45.7	from being zero and 29 and by 2014 they had won the Atlantic 10 and gotten to the NCA tournament.
0:52.0	Really just an unbelievable interview from the standpoint 10 and got into the NCA tournament.
0:52.6	Really just an unbelievable interview
0:54.3	from the standpoint that Stephanie was so candid
0:56.8	about her different points in her career.
0:59.2	She talked about being fired at St. Joe's,
1:01.0	talked about being a 25-year-old head coach at Richmond and how she got that
1:05.2	job, talked about what it's like to play pickup with her staff, how she's changed in terms of
1:10.6	allowing her staff to have more time to themselves.
1:13.0	Talk about what it was like to be a mom to three boys in the give and take that's required
1:17.5	and what it was like to have her husband on staff.
1:20.0	Towards the end, obviously Coach Speak, we hear from Geno Ariama,
1:22.8	and in a Coach Speak First, we have a quote from Stephanie herself.
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