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 enlarge | Authors: C. Vivian Stringer, Laura Tucker
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 43508
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307406091
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323092
EAN: 9780307406095
ASIN: 0307406091
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Good Read, Great Coach March 26, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I started following Rutgers Women's basketball just a few years ago and wanted to find out what makes C. Vivian Stringer tick, as well as to catch up on earlier teams that she coached. The book filled that need admirably. The writing is excellent, details informative and the message uplifting. She has a stoic and yet combative view of life and her story explains why.
No book will ever reveal what a person is like and if you've ever heard her speak, you know that Coach Stringer has poetry in her that barely peaks through in the book. Her reaction to the recent Tennessee clock debacle included, "I seem to have an eraser after my name..."
The perpetual struggle that she is involved in as she coaches and deals with her other challenges and the effect that she has on others is what she is and she is a treasure.
Am l a fan of Vivian Stringer? C ! March 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very inspirational book from a very inspirational woman. lt inspires me to go out and pinch Geno Auriemma's taint. Pat Summitt isn't good enough to carry this woman's feminine hygiene products.
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The C. stands for Champion! March 15, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most of us heard about her from the fall-out of Don Imus' disgusting comments regarding her team; but in her memoir you will learn that the strength of character she showed during those dark days was ingrained in her from her solid family values. Coach Stringer is a woman whose challenges have only served to make her stronger, better, wiser. And those of us who are privildged to know her can only be amazed by her talent, beauty and fortitude. I can honestly say that the C. in C. Vivian Stringer truly does stand for CHAMPION!
An inspiring life March 8, 2008
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
As a women's basketball fan I was familiar with C Vivian Stringer and her Rutgers team. What I wasn't familiar with were all the details of her upbringing in a poor but proud family and the struggles she went through as an African American, wife and mother dealing with a high profile career, illness of her daughter, death of her husband and various other unique challenges. Coach Stringer presents all of her struggles in an honest and humble way. I especially enjoyed reading how she developed her coaching style over the years and seeing how she put her values into practice. If you like "overcomer" type stories or sports stories, you'll enjoy this, its the type you can't put down until you finish. I can understand now why her players seem to have so much affection and loyalty for her.
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