As the youngest head coach in Division I basketball at the moment, Valentine is already leaving his imprint on the Rambler program. This is just the start.
“What’s so important about our tenth year is we’re still here,” said Carman Smith, the Tisdale Dance Centre’s president. “Without our continued sponsorship, without all of the parents that volunteer endless hours, without the teachers giving the children all of the work and bringing them to Dance Experience, and without the children dancing, none of this would happen.” The dance festival began as a two-and-a-half day event before working its way up to its current five. Smith said for the tenth anniversary, the focus is on the dancers. “It’s a children’s festival and we offer a space for everyone of all ages and all abilities to dance, to express themselves and to be encouraged, not just in dance, but in life.”
Coaches Corner: Mike Thibault
Mar 4, 2021
Mike Thibault has been the head coach and general manager of the Washington Mystics since December 2012, and he is the winningest coach in WNBA history. He led the Mystics to the WNBA Finals in 2018 and to a WNBA championship in 2019.
Thibault was an assistant coach for the gold-medal-winning USA Basketball Women’s National Team at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and the bronze-medal-winning 2006 FIBA World Cup. He also coached two USA Basketball men’s teams, including the gold-medal winning 1993 FIBA World Cup Qualifying Team and silver medalist U.S. team at the 1995 Pan American Games.
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