Short Book on Rugby Shares Important Lessons and Resources on How to Win in Sport and Life
2024年8月15日 - 5:00AM
With concepts shamelessly borrowed from mentors and one from the
Bible as well as anecdotes drawn from 22 years on the sidelines,
acclaimed rugby coach William Laughlin “Loc” Vetter, M.D., FACS,
aka Loc Vetter, wrote Notes from and about Coaching College Rugby
to help people win at a game and in life.
Rugby, a robust contact sport with strategic complexity,
enhances players both as individuals and as teammates. With his
expertise in rugby as a backdrop, Loc pours out a collection of
life lessons that could very well make the world a better place.
Coaches, teammates, friends, co-workers, teachers, and preachers
will find a trove of information in Notes from and about Coaching
College Rugby. At just 76 pages, this little book packs a compact
punch with priceless wisdom.
Notes from and about Coaching College Rugby – Ya Gotta Buy the
T-shirt will appeal most to those who love rugby and want to learn
more about it, but the book will have special value for anyone
looking for lessons as players, as coaches and as members of
teams.
All profits from sales of the book will go to the college rugby
programs where Loc played and coached, including UCLA, Loyola
University Evergreen, SDSU, USD, and the USNA, as well as NCR, a
national organization that enables the competitions.
Notes from and about Coaching College Rugby is available for
purchase online at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.
About the Author:
Loc Vetter received his BS in Physical Education, MS in
Kinesiology, and MD degrees from UCLA. It was there, in 1969 with
Coach Dennis Storer who was then the US national team coach, that
he was introduced to the game. He began coaching at Loyola
University in 1979. He was then doing a laboratory portion of his
orthopedic residency at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. He sought
to enhance his coaching by taking all three levels of USARFU
Coaching, all three levels of the RIU program, George Hook’s course
at Colby College with Eddie O’Sullivan, touring with winning teams
to Europe and South Africa, attending the Most Promising Yung
Players Camp in New Zealand and coaching winning college teams and
representative sides, including the Collegiate All Americans under
Jack Clark. He wrote a well-received four-part series published in
Rugby magazine. He is a proud father of four, six grand kids.
Media Contact: William Laughlin “Loc” Vetter, M.D., FACS, aka
Loc Vetter
EMAIL: locvetter@gmail.com
Available for interviews: Author, William Laughlin “Loc” Vetter,
M.D., FACS, aka Loc Vetter
- Notes from and about Coaching College Rugby: Ya Gotta Buy the
T-Shirt
Leah Joseph
Palmetto Publishing
publicity@palmettopublishing.com