Joy Gabrielli Gould

My 9th grade year, my high school volleyball was ranked last in the state of NH and, quite probably, that meant we were most likely ranked last in the entirety of the United States. Our school was a very small, private high school - I graduated with a class of 44 students, the largest class in the history of the school. We were ranked in Class "S", which stood for "Small" in a state where the schools were divided into Small, Medium, and Large for sports classes. We only won one set (not...

When I first started coaching at Gordon College, I had little to no idea of what I was doing. I came in with almost no coaching experience, and I shaped my approach to coaching largely from what I had seen as really working well from prior coaches. I also used a lot of what I had seen as not working well from the player perspective to shape how NOT to be as a coach, which shows how important both positive and negative experiences can be for a person's development. Generally, I knew how to...

There is a principle that I talk with my research lab of graduate students about quite often when we are reviewing professionalism topics...