KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- It's the end of a recent early-preseason workout and Western Michigan University first-year women's basketball head coach Kate Achter winds it up with her players forming a circle at center court.
The players are there to talk…but not about themselves and their own assessment of how practice went.
''We talk at the end of every practice, but everyone has to say something positive about a teammate,'' Achter said. ''We do that because I want them to leave practice on a high note, even if the practice ends poorly. The mad scientist in me is I'm forcing them to talk to each other and forcing them to think about basketball.