Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph | C. Vivian Stringer, Laura Tucker

Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph | C. Vivian Stringer, Laura Tucker | Good Read, Great Coach

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	Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph C. Vivian Stringer, Laura Tucker Crown, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An inspiring life

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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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.

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The C. stands for Champion!

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!

Am l a fan of Vivian Stringer? C !

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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