Ginni Maxwell

[Craig Doty @CoachDoty]

A True Hero - The Coach’s Spouse.

Marrying the right person is so important for a coach. Your spouse needs to be supportive, understanding, loyal, independent, and willing to sacrifice.

If you go home from work each day and your spouse is unhappy, you either won’t be married long or you won’t be coaching anymore.

Just as important, meet your spouse’s needs and be all of the above for them. If your spouse works, support them professionally. If they stay home with the kids they work just as hard and they don’t get many breaks. Understand their stress, schedule, and how you can help them. Don’t build your team at work and neglect your team at home.

A few ways coaches can help their marriage while running an athletic program:

*Leave work and have lunch together. Invite your spouse to work to have lunch with you. Your spouse should know the people you work with around the athletic department and school.

*Communicate: Check in with each other throughout the busy work day. A text here and there or a three minute phone conversation is simple, quick, and beneficial.

*Make the program “our program,” not “your program.” A spouse with involvement with the team is one who is invested in student-athlete success. Helping with team events and meals, attending games and even a few practices, and talking about the happenings within the program are all ways to make the program a partnership instead of a sole proprietorship.

*Be fiercely loyal

*Go for walks together; exercise together

*Earn “coach credits” or “coach points.” Date nights scattered throughout the year and a well-planned vacation in the off-season help build up credit which you’ll need to use during extremely busy times of the season.

*If you’re going for be busy with work all afternoon and evening then take the morning to be with your spouse. If you’re going to be busy all morning and afternoon, then be at home during the evening. There are times of the year when you’ll work 15+ hour days and will be on the road constantly. Don’t fall into the counter-productive trap of thinking this should be your schedule 12 months a year.

*Be present when home. Do a “power hour” many times a week where you put your phone on the charger in another room and spend an hour solely focused on your spouse.

Ephesians 5:33

[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

Welcome to the family!

[Ethan Cooper @ihoopcoop]

Once a 🦁, always a 🦁! 1000% COMMITTED!🔴🟡

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

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[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

@Grammarmax that makes me feel a whole lot better

[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

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[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

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[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

@_violin_tim This is impossible, but I’ll bite.
1. Stickwitu
7. If I Ain’t Got You
4. Hey Ya!
2. Irrelaceable
8. Cry Me A River
5. That’s The Way It Is
15. With You

[Emmanuel University Lions Basketball @EULionsMBB]

🚨🦁SIGNED🦁🚨

‼️Lion Nation, let’s welcome our guy Ibrahima Jarjou to the family‼️

Jarjou is all the way from Senegal, Africa!! He played at Austin Peay University for a year before coming to us! We are extremely excited to welcome Jarjou to the family!!

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

Anything worthwhile takes time to build. If we had immediate success we wouldn’t develop the character to sustain it.

[Emmanuel University Lions Basketball @EULionsMBB]

🚨🦁SIGNED🦁🚨

‼️Lion Nation help us welcome Chris Dees to the Lion family‼️

Chris comes to us all the way from Amarillo Texas after a phenomenal career at Amarillo highschool. We are extremely excited to have him join the family!!

[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

@ChelPhel @PRICEboy13 out way.

[Tim Reynolds @_violin_tim]

HAPPY NEW WEEK, FOLKS! ✨
Soooo I’m starting this new thing called #melodymondays because, as you can probably tell... I loooove me a good melody, ok?!? Basically, I’ll just be hitting y’all with some of my favorite melodies every Monday. 😌
Here’s “Promise” by @ciara !!!

[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

excuse the language but this is HILARIOUS.

[David Hughes @david8hughes]

It would appear I have fucked up.

[Ginni Maxwell @maxwellginni]

@StepsForShima I love you

[Emmanuel University Lions Basketball @EULionsMBB]

🚨🚨Tyonn Stuckey and Brandon Simpson have decided to return to Emmanuel for their final year of eligibility🚨🚨

[Chris @2chrisdees3]

100% Committed
Gods plans for me happened to be 17 hours from home but fear of distance doesn’t override the position my loved ones put me in to fulfill my childhood aspirations. Thank you Amarillo High #onlyus

[Scott Flemming @scottwflemming]

Grace is only hard to give if we're still keeping score. Bob Goff