Danielle Spencer - Head Women's Coach at Dartmouth

01:05 Danielle's Journey

-Started playing in Junior High

-Was seen first in gym class

-Different from coach Curtis and Kelly at Northwester

-Rochester Hall of Fame

-Playing at Northwestern

-Her best friend Hilary Bowen

-What Kelly taught Danielle as far as creativity and a female athlete

-Referencing those days as a coach

10:15 Kelly's Coaching Tree and Other Northwestern Relationships

-Lindsey Munday as a coach to Danielle

-Other assistant coaches running other programs

-Learning to love coach from all her role models

-Teammates who are now coaching

-Katrina Dowd

-The fun culture

16:17 Going from an Assistant Coach to a Head Coach

-Pride for your program

-New ways of building relationships

-Getting trust in self and voice

-Going from playing a role from managing

-Trust

-Being able to shape a culture

21:47 What You Want to be Known for?

-Women of the Woods

-Tough, confident, gritty

-Outdoorsy element

-Confidence and pride

-Being brave

-Applying everything in the real world after

-Sports as a learning laboratory

27:27 Using Messages to Create a Well Functioning Team

-Hard taking criticism at first and learning to take it

-Letting players have a say and give feedback

-Leadership teams called "Squads"

-Deciding on goals that where player driven

33:14 Philosophy on Player Development

-Making everything tougher

-Make practice harder then games

-Partner passing on the run at speed

39:12 Advice to High School Coaches to See Them Prepare

-Spend more time teaching how to play a great defender

-Team defense

-Crosschecking

-Working on things inside the 8 meter

-Learning to get your shot off

47:34 Shooting With Your Stick to the Inside

-Make one more pass across the crease

-Alley shots almost become selfish

-Box lacrosse influence and the one more pass

-Terrible shots as turnovers

50:41 2 Man Game

-Seeing it a lot

-Doesn't fit the offensive identity right now at Dartmouth

-Seeing it in other sports

-Communication problem

-Make it harder to slide

54:37 Recruiting

-Used to think about the best athletes

-Position specific

-Playing with players all over the world

-Finding a balance of not feeding from the same spot all the time and getting good caliber players with good lax IQ

-Time restriction for skill development in the Ivy League

-Scenarios of IQ at prospect camps

-Coachability

-Getting player on the whiteboard in recruiting

Prospect Camps:

Overnight - July 25th - 28th @ Dartmouth