Interview with Adam Hughes - Maryland Head Coach
Oct 28, 2019 19:12:29 GMT -5
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Post by nyline on Oct 28, 2019 19:12:29 GMT -5
Adam Hughes, Head Coach of the Maryland Women’s Volleyball team, kindly sat down with us prior to the match between the Terrapins and Penn State on Saturday night. Here's a link to that interview: www.dignittanyvolleyball.com/dignittany-talks-with-maryland-head-coach-adam-hughes/
And here's a brief excerpt:
DigNittany: You’re a Penn State graduate and started your career with Penn State. Tell us how that came about.
Adam Hughes: I’m from State College and I played volleyball in high school. At that time, Mike Schall [former Penn State assistant coach and current assistant coach at North Carolina] was the assistant coach for our high school team and his wife was our women’s head coach. When I enrolled at Penn State, I was going to try to walk on to the men’s team. Through the Schalls, I found out that there was an opportunity to be a practice player for the women’s team at Penn State (at the time, I didn’t even know what a practice player was). Russ Rose convinced me that I would be better off as a practice player helping the team, than being the 20th guy on the men’s roster and never play. So that got me in the door and then I fell in love with the sport. Russ’s appreciation for numbers and statistics was a good scenario for me, because I see the game in a similar way — I love numbers. I started doing some video work and started helping Mike Schall a little bit more with some statistics, and the situation kind of grew and grew and grew.
And here's a brief excerpt:
DigNittany: You’re a Penn State graduate and started your career with Penn State. Tell us how that came about.
Adam Hughes: I’m from State College and I played volleyball in high school. At that time, Mike Schall [former Penn State assistant coach and current assistant coach at North Carolina] was the assistant coach for our high school team and his wife was our women’s head coach. When I enrolled at Penn State, I was going to try to walk on to the men’s team. Through the Schalls, I found out that there was an opportunity to be a practice player for the women’s team at Penn State (at the time, I didn’t even know what a practice player was). Russ Rose convinced me that I would be better off as a practice player helping the team, than being the 20th guy on the men’s roster and never play. So that got me in the door and then I fell in love with the sport. Russ’s appreciation for numbers and statistics was a good scenario for me, because I see the game in a similar way — I love numbers. I started doing some video work and started helping Mike Schall a little bit more with some statistics, and the situation kind of grew and grew and grew.
