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language of a champion lies
in the consistency of holding
strong when it gets hard
and celebrating everyone’s
successes.
Superintendents are in high
throttle from August to June.
It’s not about peaking at
one point, but rather a slow
deliberate uphill climb to
encouraging student success.
For superintendents if they
can leave the office every
day saying, ‘you know, I gave
everything I had today,’ that
is an achievement, Enquist
believes.
After 27 years of coaching,
Enquist became really
interested in seeing how she
could build a pillar foundation
at the youth level.
“I really felt amateur sports
was missing important
character and technical
pillars for softball families,”
Enquist said. To help develop
leadership for players,
coaches and parents, she
worked to found ONE Softball
Inc., LLC, an online digital
network serving families.
The online community is also
now identifying resources
and developing free content
for parents and coaches and
student athletes to help tackle mental health, perfectionism
and wellness issues. She feels this is her gift back to the sport
of softball.
“Amateur sports can be a great foundation for teaching values
to help support what families are doing on a day to day basis,”
she said. “The Onesoftball.com website has over 600 videos
from our best in the game talking about how to get to college
and how to technically improve and how to teach character in
a very specific way, such as how you think and speak and act.
We want to create a more fun environment at practice.”
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percent. The number of athletes
she coached who became coaches
is also something she’s proud of.
For Enquist keeping that
consistent adrenalin flowing was
paramount in order to stay on top
of the game and successfully win
championships.
During her session at the IASA
Conference she will be offering
advice to superintendents on
how they can build on their own
achievements.
“As a school administrator, what is
the technical expertise you need
in your office and in your school?
Be a hornet about those technical
processes,” said Enquist. “All the
little things are connected to the big
things. It shows in the environment
if you are paying attention or not.”
She advises not to let the little
things slip. Enquist always sweated
the little things because she knew if
she placed the little things at a high
level that the big things would take
care of themselves—resulting in the
championship or having your school
district win awards for academic
achievement.
Competitive excellence means to go
out every day to compete to do your
best as your best will always be
good enough, she adds.
“Coaches want to win all the time
but sometimes we have to do things that are not going to
win in the short term but are going to win in the long term,”
Enquist says.
Enquist encourages superintendents to understand how to
build a championship culture within their district environment,
whether that is in their executive offices, schools or teachers.
“There is a common vernacular of championship culture
that is shared at all levels,” she says. “The leaders must
understand what he or she stands for and articulate that
day to day and hold people accountable on good days and
bad days.”
She states it doesn’t matter if you are in a big district or
small district, in charge of 10 or 100 people, the common
• Winningest NCAA Division I Softball Coach,
attained 11 National Championships
• Former All-American and USA World Champion
and Founder/CEO of ONE Softball LLC
• Retired in 2006 as UCLA Head Coach,
after 36 years as UCLA student, coach and
administrator
• She sits in six Hall of Fames as a player or
coach including: UCLA Hall of Fame, USA
Softball Hall of Fame, National Fast Pitch
Coaches Association and International
Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.
• Former USA World Champion and Pan Am Gold
Medalist as a player