CCCWBCA Coaches Clinic
Skip Gleason
Women's Basketball Coach
Humboldt State University
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Skip Gleason enters his ninth season as Humboldt State’s assistant women’s basketball coach after joining the program on Aug. 16, 2007. Gleason’s duties include recruiting, video breakdown, post development, working with the defense, and running camps and clinics.
The veteran coach has helped the Lumberjacks to four 19-plus win campaign with the last coming last season en route to a CCAA regular-season title, as the Lumberjacks went 23-6, including 19 wins in conference play alone.
During the 2011-12 season, the Jacks finished 19-8 overall (15-7 conference), including upsetting the No. 1 team, UC San Diego. In the 2009-10 season, Gleason helped guide the Lumberjacks to a 20-11 overall record. The team went 14-8 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, which was good for a tie for fourth place. The Lumberjacks won the CCAA Tournament and earned the conferences automatic bid to the NCAA West Regional, where they went 1-1. It was the second time in his three years that the Jacks qualified for the tournament. The 2008-09 team finished 24-8 overall and 16-4 in the CCAA and second place in conference.
Under his guidance, Brittney Taylor, earned the 2009-2010 Division II Bulletin Preseason All-America and Daktronics All-America honors. She earned first-team All-CCAA honors each of the last two year. Her career marks of 1,100 points, 526 rebounds, 424 field goals and 242 free throws are good for fifth, eighth, sixth and sixth respectively on the programs all-time list. Her 460 points, 187 field goals and 107 free throws last season were good for fifth, fourth and sixth on the HSU single-season list.
Before coming to Humboldt State, Gleason spent two years as the head coach at College of the Redwoods, turning the men’s basketball program around, going 15-16 overall in 2005-06, an eight win improvement from the previous season. In 2006-07, the Corsairs finished 19-13, claiming their first outright conference championship in school history and advancing to the second round of the state playoffs. Gleason was named the Golden Valley Conference Coach of the Year for his efforts.
Gleason’s coaching career began at Colusa High School where he headed the varsity girls’ program from 1999-2004, collecting one Northern Section Division IV Championship, two league championships and a handful of Northern Section, Appeal Democrat and Tri-Counties Coach of the Year honors.
Jorja Hoehn
Women's Basketball Coach
Central Missouri (1980-85)
Hoehn began her collegiate coaching career in 1977 as a graduate assistant at Central Missouri under leadership of her mentor and 2010 MIAA Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Millie Barnes. Hoehn completed her master's degree in 1979 at Central Missouri and after three seasons as an assistant, Hoehn became head coach of the Jennies in 1980.
With Hoehn in command for five seasons, the Jennies amassed a 118-34 record while claiming the NCAA Division II National Championship in 1984. She was twice named the MIAA Coach of the Year and National Coach of the Year at Central Missouri. Her Jennies teams went 34-2 in MIAA play, and 66-9 at home. She led the Jennies to the Final Four in three consecutive seasons, the only coach in school history to do so.
After her career at UCM, she became the head coach at her alma mater, Indiana for three seasons, and from 1988-1998, she was the head coach at the University of California-Davis, leading them to 6 conference titles, 8 NCAA Tournament appearances and 5 Sweet 16's. She has also served as the president of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and coached several USA select and Olympic festival teams. Hoehn entered the Central Missouri Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997 and the UC-Davis Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
Has been a certified Life Coach since 2004
Jorja’s recommended reading list for coaches:
RECOMMENDED READING:
- John Wooden - “Practical Modern Basketball”
- Dr. Mildred Barnes - “Women’s Basketball”
- Dean Smith – “Basketball: Multiple Offenses & Defenses”
- Richard Rohr – “Falling Upward”
- Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend – “Boundaries”
- Og Mandino – “The Greatest Salesman in the World”
- Daniel James Brown – “The Boys in the Boat”
- Jenny Williamson – “Do You Have the Courage to be You?”
- Joyce Meyers – “Battlefield of the Mind”
- Carolye Hyatt & Linda Gottlieb – “When Smart People Fail”
- Norman Vincent Peale – “The Power of Positive Thinking”
I would add:
"Leadership is an Art" by Max Dupree
"Good to Great" by Jim Collins (or any of his books) http://www.jimcollins.com/