Volleyball Coaching Wizards - Wizard Women: Insights and Experience from Some of the World's Great Coaches

Book Synopsis: Six master volleyball coaching women with experience covering different levels, across multiple countries, and with varied backgrounds share their stories on the road to success. This book continues the Volleyball Coaching Wizards project of interviewing top coaches and sharing their insights and experiences with you, but with a new angle. Wizard Women is about women coaches, for women in coaching. While it features discussion of similar general coaching themes as the original series, it adds in the discussion of the additional challenges women face in the coaching profession.

Erin Appleman – A US college coach at Yale, where she led her program to the first-ever Ivy League team win in the NCAA tournament.
Audrey Cooper – A Scot who led Team GB in the 2012 Olympics and has coached both professional and non-professional adult club teams.
Denise Corlett – A career US assistant coach at Stanford, where she contributed to multiple national championships.
Ann Schilling – A US high school and juniors coach with an incredible record of success.
Saskia Van Hintum – A Dutch coach who's worked across the levels from juniors to pro and national team indoors, and at the national team level on the beach.
Shannon Winzer - A Canadian who started at the adult club level and progressed to national team coaching.

What readers are saying?
Volleyball Coaching Wizards - Wizard Women is a book every female volleyball coach should have in their volleyball library, not only to read for themselves but to share with young female athletes interested in coaching. More female coaches need to hear about these very successful coaches from so many different levels. Each of these coaches share their passion, their process in continuing to grow in their field, their love of the game, their love for their athletes, and being great mentors to other women in coaching. - Brenda Williams, retired college coach.

"Volleyball Coaching Wizards - Wizard Women is a much-needed book to help inspire more women to enter the coaching profession. As Lauren says in the book, 'I truly believe we can't be what we can't see' when referring to women in coaching. This book can serve to help rectify that problem as it showcases outstanding female coaches from around the world and a variety of levels, their individual journeys through volleyball and coaching, their evolution as coaches, and great advice for future coaches. If you are a current coach or thinking about coaching, this book will help you gain a better understanding of the profession and valuable advice moving forward." - Mark Oglesby, Georgia Volleyball Coaches Association AAA Coach of the Year 2021, 2022

About the Authors
Lauren Bertolacci is currently the head coach for the Swiss professional women’s team Viteos NUC Volleyball, as well as being the head coach for the Swiss Women’s National Team. At NUC her teams have won three straight league championships and three straight Cup titles and have competed in CEV competition as well. Before NUC, she was the head coach for the Volley Luzern men’s team. Prior to taking charge of Switzerland, she assisted with the national teams of both Canada and her native Australia. Lauren’s coaching career follows a professional playing career, as well as national team experience.
John Forman is the author of the well-respected Coaching Volleyball blog (CoachingVB.com) and the co-developer of Volleyball Coaching Wizards. His coaching experience includes time in all three NCAA Divisions, as well as at the 2-year college level. He also coached in England at both the university (BUCS) and National League (NVL) Division I levels, and had a stint as the head coach in Sweden’s top women’s league. He’s also been a visiting coach at youth, collegiate, professional, and national teams in several different countries.