Sherri Coale | Life and Leadership Lessons from Hall of Fame Basketball Coach

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sherri Coale spent twenty-five years as the head coach of the University of Oklahoma women’s basketball team. She led her program to three Final Fours, won six Big 12 Regular Season Championships and four Big 12 Tournament Championships, had nineteen straight NCAA Tournament appearances, and made nine Sweet 16 appearances.

She's learned a lot about coaching, leadership and life. During this epsiode Sherri shares wisdom she’s gained from paying close attention to the extraordinary, the ordinary, and all that’s in between.

Pick up Sherri's new book ROOTED TO RISE anywhere books are sold including Amazon.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You and today my guest is Sherry Cole. Sherry, how
0:13.4	you doing? I'm doing great, John. Thank you. Sherry, we know each other from your time as
0:18.6	the coach of Oklahoma University women's basketball. Where's the University of Oklahoma?
0:22.9	Which one is it? The University of Oklahoma. Yeah, but it's OU, but University of Oklahoma,
0:26.6	women's basketball. How long did you coach OU for? 25 years. Yeah, yeah, a long, long time.
0:37.4	I was so fortunate to go to a place that was so home for me. I was born and raised in Oklahoma,
0:44.7	Southern Oklahoma and went from the high school level to the university and was given the time
0:51.3	to build and develop a program that our state could be very proud of. And so there was no other
0:56.2	place I wanted to go. This was it for me. And so I was very, very fortunate to spend 25 years here.
1:02.8	25 amazing years. And now you're an author. We're going to get to your leadership lessons in a
1:09.1	second. I'm going to definitely ask you about coaching and leadership. But I'm going to talk about
1:12.6	your book right now rooted to rise. Tell me why you called it that and why you wrote this book
1:17.8	in the first place. Both really, really good questions. One being, why did I write the book in
1:24.6	the first place? I have long been a lover of words and sentences and the way they can make you
1:29.0	feel when they're strung together in a certain way. I was a high school English teacher before I
1:33.4	was the head coach at Oklahoma. Yeah. And in high school, actually, my senior English teacher
1:39.6	wrote across my yearbook at the back. I expect to see a novel with your name attached to it someday.
1:45.0	So it was early on that I had this passion for writing and for words. I just combined it with
1:51.1	the love of basketball and the love of basketball took off and went in a very incredible direction first.
1:56.5	But I always knew this was kind of lurking waiting in the wings on the sideline. And at some point
2:01.4	when I was finished pursuing the coaching world, I would decide to sit down and write. So that's
2:07.9	kind of why why the book. I have a lot of books in my head. This was just the first one. And it had
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