Ep.23 USC Women's Head Coach, Jane Alukonis | Life through Sport Show

Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
1:50 How was your first season at USC?
2:35 Any doubts after starting 0-2?
3:15 What did you learn from the staff at UCLA?
4:05 What lessons transitioned w/ you from your teaching days?
6:10 How do you think people would describe you?
7:30 OZ: Scouting presentation that was completely wrong
7:55 How have you managed presentations so the they’re not taken literally? Soundbite “we like to do less talking than the players”
9:00 Guided Discovery
9:15 What are some misconceptions about you?
11:10 Creating a training environment - story about old club environment / how everything was scripted
12:45 John Cohn helping set training
13:20 Advice to young coaches on how to create the right training environment
14:24 “you keep it or you attack”
14:40 Goal scoring expert mark Simpson
15:00 How often are you revisiting your team principles?
16:00 Adapting and reinventing yourself
18:10 Steve Cherundolo quote
18:40 Did your club days help you as a HC support your Asst. Coaches’ ideas / growth?
20:00 “Clear Objective, Loose Instruction”
22:05 Early days of Jane
24:50 Jane’s first game as a young coach
25:40 Where does your emotional intelligence come from?
27:00 Working hard for players
28:35 What were you like as a player?
29:10 Getting invited to USYNT’s
30:00 Were you the leader for you HS team?
30:50 “who combines the best”
32:15 Supporting your assistant coaches
34:10 How do you challenge people?
35:00 What were the habits that young Jane had?
36:20 Creating a safe space for players
37:00 Going to Duke
38:20 Being named team captain
39:10 How do you create a sense of urgency with your players?
40:00 Dealing with the last man on the roster?
41:10 Cabral Story
42:55 How do you deal with failure?
45:00 How much value do you hold in the awareness that you don’t know everything?
47:15 Angel City game
47:50 Early days at UCLA as a young volunteer assistant
49:50 Job responsibilities as a volunteer assistant
52:22 Is UCLA where you formed your own game model?
53:10 What has been the proudest moment of your career?
55:55 What kind of a player just Jane look for?l