Terry Pettit
Coyote Leadership: the patterns of extraordinary leadership as it applies to coaches, teachers, educators,
business people, parents and world leaders.
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For twenty–three seasons Terry Pettit was the Head Women´s Volleyball Coach at the University of Nebraska. During his tenure his teams won twenty-one conference championships and lead the nation in both All American selections and Academic All American honors. In 1995 he led Nebraska to its first national championship in women´s volleyball in a career that saw his teams ranked in the top ten for seventeen consecutive seasons. In 1986, 1994 and 1996 he was selected as national coach of the year. In 2005 he was awarded "All Time Great Coach" by the United States Volleyball Association.
For the past six years he has been presenting workshops and mentoring on leadership and team-building. He currently mentors coaches and administrators at several universities including, Colorado State, Creighton, Iowa State, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Northern Colorado. He has also presented on leadership at Wells Fargo, Farm Bureau, Talent Plus and several other national corporations.
Terry Pettit is a published poet who earned an MFA in creative writing, after earning a BS in English from Manchester College. He attended graduate school in theology and worked as a reporter for the Church of the Brethren before teaching English at Louisburg College, in Louisburg, North Carolina. In 1977 he began his coaching career at the University of Nebraska. From 2000 to 2003 he was assistant athletic director and mentor coach to sixty-five coaches at UNL. His business, "Terry Pettit Coaching Enhancement" is located in Fort Collins where he lives with his wife Anne and their youngest daughter Emma. More information can be found at (www.terrypettit.com).
Recommended Reading:
- Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
- On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
- Coyote by Catherine Reid