PILR is a network of coaches driving social change through sports. Our strength-based model recognizes systemic issues impacting under-resourced student-athletes and trains coaches to identify solutions, both individual and structural, that mitigate harm and cultivate wellness.
Mission: Promote healthy coaching practices and reduce barriers impacting under resourced student-athletes.
Vision: An even playing field where ever student-athlete is fully supported.
Our work is grounded in community development, mutual aid, and power building. We foster resilience while working to eliminate social disparities that cause and contribute to the hardships of underresourced student-athletes in the Greater Philadelphia area.
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Coach B has an extensive background in community organizing, international network building, narrative strategy, and organizational development, with particular focus on utilizing a person-centered approach to maximize the genius of marginalized people. A Houston native and Philadelphia resident, Coach B is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University with a Bachelor of Psychology and Sociology and earned her Master of Clinical Psychology from LaSalle University.
From 2013 – 2021, Coach B led the West Catholic Preparatory High School Girls basketball team. In 2020, she became the first Black coach to win Philadelphia’s prestigious Catholic League Basketball Championship and in 2021, became the first Black woman to capture a PIAA state title in Pennsylvania. In total, Coach B led West Catholic’s “Lady Burrs” to 6 city titles, 1 league title, and 1 state championship title, collecting 3 state-wide “Coach of the Year” honors during her 8 year tenure.
In addition to generating historic on-court success, Coach B spearheaded off-court initiatives to deepen the impact of her athletic program and mentorship of her high school players. These efforts included conducting wellness sessions to enhance her student-athletes’ mindfulness and mental health awareness, implementing customized training programs during the off-season and pre-season periods, organizing Summer camps and clinics designed for middle school students, and introducing an annual “Alumni Appreciation Game” to bolster alumni engagement, fundraising activities, and programmatic legacy appreciation.
Coach B hopes to expand her reach beyond a single school through cultivating the emotional awareness, mental fortitude, and political consciousness of coaches and student-athletes across the nation. Her primary ambition is to elevate the standard of coaching and community care within the athletic ecosystem, changing how coaches and athletes alike define, experience, and pursue “winning.”
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