Jocelyn Stout

Kam’s dream comes true as she commits to play Division 1 volleyball at Georgia Southern University in the Sun Belt Conference. SO MANY sacrifices and hours of training make this possible.

"You can have both. You can compete at the highest levels...and be committed to winning for the sake of the group with total commitment AND you can love each other well, commit to growth first, and live in a place of gratitude and service. You can do both at the same time."

“Your talent is your floor, your character is your ceiling” Absolutely incredible quote by UCLA Coach Cori Close.

Happy Easter! Missing my girls while Kam is in Chicago. ❤️

“I don’t think basketball is my purpose. I think being able to have this platform to share The Gospel is really my purpose” - Arizona Wildcats F Koa Peat 🎥: CBN Sports/@willdawsonTV

Good luck!! 🐣🐰🏐

Big Talent Among These Mid-Ohio Athletic 2027s @KamrynCocherl @robertskam53 Click to view the article! prepdig.com/2026/03/big-ta…

Real leadership creates movement. It challenges thinking. You can walk into a campus and feel it immediately… whether growth is expected or whether it’s optional. You can’t call yourself a leader if no one grows when you’re around!

Weekend recap with my baby girl:: Otherworld, Gameground (which was AWESOME), Blacklick Park, playgrounds, ice cream, multiple restaurants, nature centers, exploring, lots of squishies! ❤️❤️

Big Talent Among These Mid-Ohio Athletic 2027s 🏐 @PrepDig @PrepDigOH @MintonetteSport @kamryncocherl prepdig.com/2026/03/big-ta…

We’re rolling on Saturday 💪 #HailSouthern

Cam Boozer looking at Cayden Boozer on the plane ride back to Duke

🔵⚪️ Scrimmage in the Books! #HailSouthern

Juniors for Volleybros today! ❤️🖤

Big weekend!

First grade wax museum. My girl loves stingrays! ❤️

@VukovichNick Agree

@MrsStoutJ Worse thing for it. It used to mean something, now teams with losing records that have kids averaging around 10 ppg get it. Don’t like what it stands of anymore

Vb only having 28 kids and bb having over 100 is comical

@Miss_Molnar1 You two are the dream team!

So thankful to do this work together. Our students are growing so much because of it ❤️🖤

Marion Pleasant is looking for a match for the 2026 Fall season! @McMotorsport @JakeFurr11

Most people are getting this wrong. It's not being coached hard or soft...it's a coach saying the right thing at the right time to get them out of a spiral. And focus them on what matters. When you're in that spiral, your attention scatters. You're replaying mistakes, drifting into the future, losing the moment. Frese disrupted it in two ways. First, she walked directly to Okanawa, locked eyes, and forced her to focus and connect with her in the present. Second, she gave confidence AND agency. "I believe in you...But you've got to want this moment." This isn't my story..." She didn't say, "What are you doing...get your head in the game." Those feed the spiral, giving your brain evidence that it's all going wrong. Akin to telling a nervous person to "just relax." In our lowest moments, we need a signal that someone still sees what we're capable of. And then gives us the agency and challenge to go get it. She scored 7 points in the third quarter after that exchange, added 6 more in the fourth, and finished with a team-high 21. Maryland still lost. But Okananwa showed up. It was a brilliant display of snapping a player out of everything scattering towards catastrophe: "Really what that was, was a regroup moment for myself and her telling me she believed in me. Sometimes that's really all you need to hear." Research backs this up. Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam found that whatever emotional state coaches expressed predicted their players' emotional state and subsequent performance. Angry coaches produced frustrated players who made more errors. Another study of basketball players found that low to moderate anger targeted at a specific problem could improve performance. Raw, undirected intensity made things worse. Targeted intensity that was aimed at something solvable worked. Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko put it this way: "My job is to be calm and collected when they're frantic. My job is to create intensity when they're not intense. My job is to always be opposite the moment." The leader's job is the counterbalance. Frese saw her star's attention drifting when the moment called for focus and controlled fire. So she brought the intensity Okananwa wasn't generating on her own. Most people see the intensity and think that's the important takeaway. It's not. It's just one tool used in a specific moment. Frese said it herself after the game: "You can't have those conversations if you don't have a relationship with them." It's the relationship underneath that gives you the ability to use the right tool at the right time. Sometimes that tool is direct eye contact and I believe in you. Other times, it's taking a calm breath with and a reminder that I value you as a human, not just an athlete. Or, as I had one athlete request one time, "Just cuss me out in the last 400. Tell me it's worth dying for..." Sometimes you pull out the crazy if that disrupts the cycle. Know your athlete. Build the relationship. Then know when to disrupt the cycle and focus them on the work at hand.