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  • Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family by Kim Mulkey book cover
  • Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family by Kim Mulkey book cover
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Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family

by Kim Mulkey

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A basketball life shaped by competition, coaching, and family

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    Named to Parade magazine’s 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team

    Kim Mulkey was named to the 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team.

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A basketball life shaped by competition, coaching, and family

Kim Mulkey’s memoir traces a career spanning youth baseball and basketball in Louisiana, championship seasons at Louisiana Tech, Olympic competition, and the rebuilding of Baylor University’s women’s basketball program. Alongside these athletic and coaching milestones, the book addresses the personal trials Mulkey says she has faced, placing her children and her work as a coach within that account of perseverance. The emphasis falls on the intersections of team sport, leadership, ambition, and family life across several stages of women’s basketball.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of women’s basketball history and Olympic basketball
  • Readers interested in athlete and coach memoirs
  • Those seeking sports memoirs that include family and personal challenges

Themes

Women’s basketballCoaching and leadershipFamilyPerseveranceAthletic achievement

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Book overview

Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazine's 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team.

Mulkey went on to win two national championships at Louisiana Tech, as well as a gold medal with the 1984 U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team. She served as an assistant coach on Louisiana Tech's 1988 national championship, then turned around Baylor University's women's basketball program by coaching them to a national championship in a mere five years.

In Won't Back Down, Mulkey reveals the many trials she has overcome, and how her children and her coaching have sustained her in her most difficult moments.

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