Extra Time; Wendy Louque

Extra Time is our ‘just for fun’ feature where we ask coaches some ice breaker questions to find out a little bit more about them.  

 

Wendy Louque

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Wendy Louque is the current Director of the KC Courage, the KC Courage Girls High School Soccer Alternative Team and Head Coach for the WPSL team.

Wendy has been involved with coaching at various levels of soccer for the past 32 years. She has been involved with two Christian soccer organizations, Athletes in Action (AIA) and Ultimate Goal Ministries (UGM). Louque has coached internationally for both organizations, first traveling to Sweden in 2003 coachine UGM’s U-19 girls team in the Gothia Cup. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 she traveled with AIA, coaching the South American Women’s Tour, with games in Brazil and Paraguay.

 Louisiana native, Coach Louque began her collegiate career at Southern Mississippi. After one season, she returned to her native state, transferring to LSU. Along with her collegiate experience, Louque played on three Louisiana state cup teams, and was a four-time all-state performer in high school. 

In 2011, Louque was selected by the NSCAA as the Regional Assistant Coach of the year and National Assistant Coach of the Year, becoming the first female and first junior college coach to earn this honor. Coach Louque was also an NSCAA Board of Directors Candidate in 2013. 

Coach Louque received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from LSU and her master’s in Organizational Administration and Leadership from MNU. In 2013 she served as Head Coach for the Kansas City Shock WPSL team. Coach Louque currently lives in Olathe, Kansas with her husband, Bryan, and their three children.

To read Wendy’s full interview CLICK HERE

What is the one thing you believe in that nobody else does?

Well I hope I’m not the only one that believes this but good advice for life is “Love people. Use things. Never vice versa.”

 

What was the last coaching tip that you learnt?

Success requires enough ambition and bravery to make the big decisions. Great coaches are risk takers. Average coaches are caretakers.

 

What were the last three books you read?

Toxic Charity by Robert Upton, You win in the Locker Room by Jon Gordon and Bossypants by Tina Fey

 

When you think of the word success, who is the first person that comes to mind?

Coach John Wooden

 

If you were to invite 5 famous sports stars (dead or alive) to a dinner party, who would they be?

OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson, Tonya Harding, Tiger Woods and Tim Tebow at the same table would make for some interesting conversation!