{"id":20566,"date":"2018-12-28T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=20566"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:00:34","slug":"book-review-from-the-ashes-the-rise-of-the-university-of-washington-volleyball-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/book-review-from-the-ashes-the-rise-of-the-university-of-washington-volleyball-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: From the Ashes – The Rise of the University of Washington Volleyball Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think a combination of history and business lessons is the best way to describe [amazon text=From the Ashes:The Rise of the University of Washington Volleyball Program&asin=B0049B2BSA], by Frank Zaccari. Basically, it’s the story of the UW team from just before Jim McLaughlin took over up until 2010 (though there’s a reference at the end to the Final 4 in Seattle in 2013). That’s the end of Bill Neville’s<\/a> tenure, when the program was struggling, through multiple Final 4s and a national championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author is a business turnaround expert. He took charge of the volleyball program’s booster club at the start of McLaughlin’s tenure. This is despite not having any real prior connection to the university. I think his path there is interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the chapters of the book are framed in the context of “Turn-Around Rules”. Each chapter encompasses a certain rule. That said, they are pretty chronological as well. So what you end up with is the explanation of the application of a given rule via the story of a given season or period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a business background and enjoy volleyball history, so I found the book and interesting read – though it’s quite short at only 2 hours or so. It’s definitely not a coaching book. Don’t look for many insights from McLaughlin from that point of view. For college and university coaches, however, there’s a good amount of useful material that relates to your work<\/a>. I can see its usefulness for high school coaches and club directors as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, if you’re interested in the more business\/management side of things. check out Stop Competing and Start Winning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Ashes, by Frank Zaccari, combines business concepts with some history from the University of Washington volleyball program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-20566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-product-reviews","tag-volleyball-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}