Charlotte Redhead

Very blessed to have been with the U16W where we achieved our goal of promotion to Division A🥉 The resilience from this group to bounce back against the hosts in our final game to achieve this has certainly made it one to remember! The future of @gbbasketball is very bright🤩

📚 Best Nuggets From Coaching Books This one comes from Legacy by James Kerr. One of the most quoted lines is: “If you establish a culture higher than that of your opponent, you will win.” But the sentence that’s always stuck with me is the one right after it: “The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependency on one another.” That reframed oneness for me. It’s not about family. It’s not even about clearly defined roles. It’s about helping players understand that their success is dependent on their teammates — and vice versa. I can’t be my best unless you’re at your best. When teams really buy into that, role clarity stops feeling like being put in a box and starts feeling like responsibility to the group. For the All Blacks they can, matter-of-factly, say: “I need you to do this so I can do my job.” or “What can I do to help you do yours better?” That’s when oneness becomes real. Not chemistry. Not vibes. But Interdependence. And that’s what winning cultures are built on.

Today I reached my limit. ❌ Not because of the game. ❌ Not because of a mistake. ❌ But because of the nonstop voices coming from the touchline. I kept hearing: “Press him.” “Pass it.” “Shoot.” “Turn.” “Get wider.” “Drop.” Every action I made already had an instruction attached to it, before I’d even thought for myself. ◍ I’m trying to play, but I can’t. ◍ I’m trying to make decisions, but yours arrive before mine. ◍ I’m trying to focus, but I keep looking over, checking if you’re annoyed, disappointed, or waiting to shout again. ⇢ I’m only a young player, still learning. ⇢ I want to hear my coach. ⇢ I want to understand the game. ⇢ I want to trust my own eyes. ⇢ I want to make decisions and learn from them. But when the sideline becomes a second coach, louder, harsher, more impatient, I stop learning. ❌ I stop thinking. ❌ I stop enjoying it. And then the questions start: ⇨ Why do adults think their constant instructions help? ⇨ Why do they talk as if they’re in the game with me? ⇨ Why am I worried more about upsetting them than doing the right thing? Football shouldn’t feel like a test I’m failing in real time. It shouldn’t feel like I’m being judged for every decision I don’t make because you’ve already shouted the one you want. Here’s what nobody admits: 🔴 Children don’t struggle because they can’t think. 🔴 They struggle because adults don’t let them. ☉ Decision-making comes from freedom, not fear. ☉ Awareness grows from playing, not from being shouted at. ☉ Confidence builds from trying things, not from being corrected every five seconds. I’m playing the game. I see what you can’t see. I feel the pressure you don’t feel. I’m learning in real time. All I’m asking for is space to think, to breathe, to grow. If you want to help me, let me play. Let my coach guide me. Let my mistakes teach me. Let the game speak. Because when the noise stops, the learning starts.

PAIGE BUECKERS TONIGHT 🔥 • 44 POINTS • 4 REBOUNDS • 3 ASSISTS • 4/4 3PM • 17/21 FG • 36 MINUTES PLAYED

❌😵 Good luck getting buckets against this team! Yes, that’s right, it’s the @moltenbballuki All-Defensive Team of the Year! 📲 Click the link in our bio to read more on our website, including a full voting record! #BritishBasketball

"There is no next year." Geno Auriemma on @paigebueckers1’s 40 point performance against Oklahoma. #MarchMadness x @UConnWBB

Happy New Year, Love from Paddington. 🍊🐻💛 @StudiocanalUK @MayorofLondon

Grateful for the opportunity to get back involved with the NT this summer. Looking forward to being involved with the U20W this year!!

⭐️👀 The @DU_Palatinates and @Oaklandsball dominate the Team of the Week, with a @Cal_Gladiators star joining the party. 📺 Click the link in our bio to watch this weekend’s action on YouTube. #BritishBasketball

new wrapped just dropped

Paige Bueckers is the BIG EAST Player of the Week! In two wins last week: - 26.0 PPG - 66.7 FG% - 55.6 3FG% - 3.5 RPG - 5.0 APG - 2.0 SPG

Just cause she's a guard again doesn't mean she's not still Paige Blockers

HELLO LET’S TALK ABOUT IT ‼️

GRAB THE TIMBS THE FIRST EVER IN FRANCHISE HISTORY 🗽 YOUR 2024 @WNBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 @nyliberty

This Finals series average attendance sets a new RECORD for a @WNBA Finals - MOST ATTENDED EVER 🥹 #wnba #basketball #fans

WHAT A SEASON FOR NAPHEESA COLLIER 😱👏 All-Star All-WNBA First Team Defensive Player of the Year All-Defensive First Team WNBA Commissioner's Cup champion Commissioner's Cup MVP Led Lynx to WNBA Finals for first time since 2017 🙌

THE ROOK AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO PLAY WIT‼️🦁

Napheesa Collier has been on a historic playoff run 😤 She passed Diana Taurasi's 245 points in 2009!

Entering Thursday, WNBA teams were 0-183 in the playoffs when trailing by 15+ in the final five minutes of regulation 😳 Then, the Lynx happened 🔥

No Minnesota men's pro team has reached the championship round in any sport since 1991. Since then, the Lynx have reached the WNBA Finals seven times, and they weren't even a thing until 1999. #wnba

Just beautiful basketball wow