If there are two kinds of college basketball coaches, those who recruit well and those who are fired, Courtney Banghart must be recruiting well. In an article in U.S. 1 Newspaper by colleague Kathleen McGinn Spring, Banghart shares the leadership lessons she used to transform Princeton University’s women’s basketball team into champions.
Point: Genuinely care about the people you lead. There is “just no way to fake this,” she says.
Point: Choose the harder right over the easier wrong.
In probably her only “free” month, in between recruiting and coaching, Courtney Banghart speaks to the Princeton Regional Chamber on Thursday, September 6. We will all be intrigued to hear the from the court” stories that she’ll tell.