CSTV's November 23 Premiere of Nike Training Camp Focuses on Anson Dorrance, Coach of Record-Setting North Carolina Women's Soccer Program
Nov. 22, 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. - CSTV: College Sports Television, the fastest-growing independent cable network, will premiere its Nike Training Camp original series Sunday, November 23, (5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT), with an intimate look at Anson Dorrance, who has coached the University of North Carolina women's soccer team to 17 national championships in his 25 years as head coach. Dorrance's club currently is 24-0 and ranked #1 nationally, and will compete in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament on Friday. CSTV (www.cstv.com), the first 24-hour college sports network, is available to approximately 15 million homes nationally on cable and satellite. The network is available on Adelphia and Insight systems and on DirecTV. For information on CSTV availability in particular markets, consumers can log on to www.cstv.com or call their cable or satellite operator. Nike Training Camp is a revealing original series that features top coaches across various college sports sharing their keys to success through instruction, training techniques and motivation for aspiring college and amateur athletes. The November 23 program features interviews with Dorrance, North Carolina goalkeeping coach Chris Ducar and Tar Heels players Lori Chalupny, Anne Felts, Kendall Fletcher, Leea Murphy, Lindsay Tarpley, Jordan Walker and Aly Winget. The show also includes game and practice action, and takes CSTV viewers behind the scenes with the team at the dining hall, in the classroom and on the team bus. College coaches scheduled to participate in subsequent Nike Training Camp programs include Miami (Fl.) football coach Larry Coker, men's basketball coaches Gary Williams, Mike Davis, Billy Donovan and Bob Huggins - men's basketball coaches at Maryland, Indiana, Florida and Cincinnati, respectively - as well as Stanford women's volleyball coach John Dunning.
Highlights of Anson Dorrance's tenure at North Carolina: "Our premiere Nike Training Camp program provides an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest college athletics programs of all time," said Joel Feld, executive producer and executive vice president, CSTV. "This show, and the series in general, gives college sports fans a unique perspective into the variety of philosophies and techniques that college coaches deploy in order to build a championship-caliber program."
Encore presentations of the Anson Dorrance Nike Training Camp: Quotes From The CSTV Nike Training Camp program on Anson Dorrance: "Our philosophy is try to bring in the most elite players we can and develop them to their maximum extent. So we like to feel that we're like a breeding ground for the U.S. Women's National Team and our primary mission here is actually player development." Dorrance "One of your challenges in coaching at an elite level is to get the athletes to accept that, if they really want to attain that potential, it's an uncomfortable ride. Being extraordinary is not comfortable. It's doing stuff on your own. It's doing stuff that is unbelievably difficult and that's what sets the elite athlete apart." Dorrance "Athletics doesn't so much develop character as expose it. I mean, how are you going to react to the adversities of the game? And the challenges of the athletic experience? We think that's the way we hold and form character...is by helping guide these kids through these very emotionally charged years and the challenge of competing in a top level program where the expectation is absolutely over the top, and the demands are similarly very high." Dorrance "We like to feel that if we're doing the right things, this environment is testing them and perhaps preparing them for the real world and there is a lot of emotionally charged issues in playing athletics. Whether or not you play, how you deal with whether or not you play. There's a victory in how you handle that. There's defeat in how you handle that. How you bounce back from injury. There's so many wonderful life issues involved in a sport." Dorrance "One thing that's critical for us at UNC is to develop personalities in the field. What that means is you want the kind of kid that says 'give me the ball; get the heck out of my way. I'm going to take over this game.' We want that athlete to come here and we will design an attack around them. We want someone to take the game over and make a difference." Dorrance "The way we look at athletics at the University of North Carolina is, we are the front porch for the university. We are what people see. We are a very public part of the university. The primary mission of this university is the pursuit and development of the academic potential for the students that come to this place and we're just a part of that climate. The way I'm looked at on campus is hopefully as a teacher." CSTV: College Sports Television televises regular season and championship event coverage in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer and other sports from the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Big 12, Big West and Conference USA, as well as the Ivy League, Mountain West, Pac-10, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC and West Coast Conferences. CSTV also presents NCAA postseason action in baseball, lacrosse, women's ice hockey, field hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's water polo, gymnastics and track & field. For more information on CSTV, log on to www.cstv.com.
College Sports Television was co-founded by President/CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Stephen Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN and which is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the company's successful foray into the college market.
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