This week we’re joined by Coach Charli Turner Thorne winningest coach in Arizona State program history and now assistant coach with the Phoenix Mercury. In this episode she shares both successes and learnings from her long coaching career.

Show Notes:
• What's changing in the game
• Everyday fundamentals
• Characteristics of the best teams
• Investing in your culture
• Role of rest and recovery
• Creatively holding your team accountable
• How to build toughness
• EFT 
• Helping your players perform
• Investing in relationships with players
• Fatigue in coaching
• Leading yourself well
• Being a learner
• Book recommendations
• What it takes to develop leaders

About Coach Charli Turner Thorne:

• 2024 Arizona Sports Hall of Fame Inductee
• WNBA Phoenix Mercury Assistant Coach
• The winningest head coach in ASU women’s basketball history and No. 2 all-time in career wins (488) by a Pac-12 coach, Two-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year, 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, 3 Pac-12 championships (two regular season titles and the league’s first tournament title in 2002) and the program’s only two NCAA Elite Eight appearances
• Past president of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) Executive Committee
• During the summer of 2009 Turner Thorne served as the head coach of the USA Women’s World University Games Team which went undefeated (7-0) and captured the gold medal at the 2009 World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia. In the summer of 2007 Turner Thorne served as an assistant coach on USA Basketball’s U21 World Championship Team which won the gold medal at the FIBA U21 World Championship in Moscow, Russia.
• As a player, Turner Thorne lettered four years at Stanford where she played three years under Tara VanDerveer. She graduated from Stanford in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and later earned her master’s degree in education from Washington in 1990.

Credit: Sun Devil Athletics webpage

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