Imagine a high school girls’ volleyball team forced to play against high school boys in a state championship final! This dramatic sporting event occurred in 1975. Meeting Her Match is my emotionally-charged memoir of the circumstances and challenges I faced coaching this girls’ team. The memoir begins with coming-of-age stories of growing up in basketball-crazed Indiana during the '50s and '60s. With an unrelenting passion for competing, but no organized sports opportunities for girls, I mastered my basketball skills in pick-up games against neighborhood boys. Although touted as a gifted athlete, I was relegated to the bleachers to watch the boys play on school teams. This story unveils the disappointments of unfulfilled sports dreams, coupled with society’s confusing and conflicting gender expectations. Whereas playing on budding women's sports teams at Indiana University filled a competitive void, I experienced the cultural and financial inequities that existed between men's and women's sports. Graduating just after Title IX became a federal law, I immersed myself into coaching high school girls, and found renewed passion and joy in providing them competitive sports opportunities that I had been denied. 
Meeting Her Match takes readers on a heartfelt journey as I chronicle life as an aspiring athlete before Title IX, and as a coach after.  It is a real-life history lesson about the evolution of women’s sports, and climaxes with an unprecedented sporting event. Readers will be inspired by the entertaining stories and sports drama, as well as the timeless themes of determination, perseverance, and hope.

A portion of the proceeds from my memoir will be donated to