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Hello!

Welcome to laughter permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy.

I'm Lennon O'Zowie and do we have an episode for you?

It'll make you laugh. It'll make you think.

It'll make you want to go play Pickleball.

Our guest is Jenny Levy, head coach of Women's LaCross at the University of North Carolina,

and a very enthusiastic Pickleball player, as we will, of course, get to in this epic

soad. She played college LaCross at the University of Virginia, where she won a national title

as a player, and then a couple years after graduating from UVA, she was offered her first,

and it turns out only head coaching job she has ever had at the University of North Carolina.

Yes, Jenny has been at the helm of UNC LaCross since its inception in 1994,

and in 28 years at Carolina, she has guided the Tar Heels to seven ACC tournament titles,

three national championships, including one this past season, and has been named

National Coach of the Year three times. And the stat that always gets me, Lenn, is UNC,

has been to ten of the last twelve NCAA final fours. And then this past July,

she coached the US LaCross Women's National Team because she's the head coach of that as well,

to gold at the World Championships, the first time the US is won on home soil,

and by doing that, she did the double, an NCAA title and World Championship title in the same year.

And I'm not done, she just got inducted into the national LaCross Hall of Fame on October 15th.

She's renowned for building a great team culture in all she does, so get ready to hear Jenny's

coaching philosophies and what matters most to her when it comes to building a positive successful

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