Girls High School Varsity Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing and most rewarding team sports today. The author, Dick Shriver, a lifelong accomplished player himself (twice named honorable mention All-American at Cornell University), shares his passion for coaching and love for the sport. Having coached men's and boys' lacrosse, he became a coach of women's (three years as head coach at the US Coast Guard Academy) and girls' lacrosse quite by accident.

When Shriver was asked to be the head coach of the girls' team at Old Saybrook (CT) High School, he developed an approach and philosophy that supported his teams in one undefeated season and two league championships in three consecutive years. In this book, he shares what he learned in twenty years as a player and another twenty years as a coach.

So You Want To Coach Girls' Lacrosse is written for coaches of the many small-to-medium lacrosse programs, those schools that work hard to field a team of twelve players who can catch, pass, and defend under competitive pressure. Coach Shriver writes about his experiences with basic skills training, youth programs, conditioning, injuries, communications with parents and school administration, what it means to win at all costs, practice plans, and how to bring out the best in your team.

At forty-three years old, during the height of the Cold War, author Richard H. Shriver was offered an appointment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as director of telecommunications and command-and-control systems. He had a long-standing desire to see from the inside how the government functioned. So Shriver sold his interest in a successful company and took the plunge.

In Glimpses of an Uncharted Life, he shares the consequences of that decision and what life was like from that point. Shriver presents a collection of stories in three parts. The first section, Foreign Affairs, starts with the beginning of the end of the Cold War. The second section, Domestic Affairs, narrates his experiences with the federal government and offers observations about government in his state of Connecticut. The final section, Tapering Off, tells what happens when a calendar that was full for more than fifty years suddenly goes blank.

A book of reminisces and reflections, Glimpses of an Uncharted Life shares what Shriver and his wife, Barbara, gleaned from living overseas for fifteen years and what they learned about life and people inside communism and inside countries recovering from the collapse of tyrannies.

At forty-three years old, during the height of the Cold War, author Richard H. Shriver was offered an appointment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as director of telecommunications and command-and-control systems. He had a long-standing desire to see from the inside how the government functioned. So Shriver sold his interest in a successful company and took the plunge.

In Glimpses of an Uncharted Life, he shares the consequences of that decision and what life was like from that point. Shriver presents a collection of stories in three parts. The first section, Foreign Affairs, starts with the beginning of the end of the Cold War. The second section, Domestic Affairs, narrates his experiences with the federal government and offers observations about government in his state of Connecticut. The final section, Tapering Off, tells what happens when a calendar that was full for more than fifty years suddenly goes blank.

A book of reminisces and reflections, Glimpses of an Uncharted Life shares what Shriver and his wife, Barbara, gleaned from living overseas for fifteen years and what they learned about life and people inside communism and inside countries recovering from the collapse of tyrannies.