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...Hogan's ability to relate to players is the quality most often mentioned by her admiring charges. "She's really sensitive to the team's psyche," senior co-captain Valerie Romero says...
...Hogan says that a coach should "demonstrate compassion towards the players but maintain a firm hand...
...instance of her compassion was her treatment of Romero, who went down with a twisted ankle in the middle of the season. Hogan still made sure that Romero was at all the practices and the games, "she said she wanted me to help her coach," Romero says, adding that "it made me feel I was contributing something...
Freshman six-footer Cassandra Coe lends a view of the firmer side of the coach. Hogan forced Coe to run more sprints than the other players in practice, to get the big center in shape. "She was always pressuring me," Coe says, conceding, however, that the extra running "helped me tons...
After playing basketball for Rutgers, Hogan joined a master's program at Boston University where she became the assistant coach for women's basketball. Last summer she accepted a full time job as a social worker in a suburban apartment complex. When women's basketball head coach Carole Kleinfelder called Hogan in October she jumped at the opportunity to coach her own team...