Carley Whitney
Episode 146
15 NOV 2021
The Assistant Athletic Director, Head Girls Basketball Coach, and Summer Camps Director at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. She is also the founder of IAmHer Basketball and had attended Kent State, where she played club soccer for four years, having been captain/manager for three. During that same time, she was driving back and forth every day to coach at St. Vincent-St. Mary, where she had been a three-sport athlete, earning eleven letters (four in soccer, four in softball, and three in basketball). She was an All-Ohio soccer player during her high school years as well.
Notable guest quotes:
“I’ve been a product of Catholic education my entire life. Played CYO sports.”
“When you say, ‘How does my Catholic faith play a role,’ I guess it’s not so much a role it’s a part of me.”
“St. Vincent-St. Mary High School has allowed me to innately be myself; to live my faith, to talk about faith, to use it as a tool and a vehicle, to ingrain faith and sports.”
“I have a strong foundation. I was raised in a Catholic household where your rent payment was, going to church on Sunday. There was no expectation. You didn’t sleep in. That was an expectation. If you lived at home you were getting up and going.”
“I’ve always been one to kind of give it to God. I live my faith in my own unique way.”
“Before games I go sit in the church parking lot, and I have my quiet time inside the church.”
“When you have large, large changes in your life… that is God… God only gives you what you can handle and He was preparing me… and has for the last eight years.”
“I’m trying to make young women better than when, how they came to me. I also think that’s kind of God’s work. You don’t get paid enough for all the hours you put in. You get paid in heaven points hopefully.”
“I am a Catholic woman who is a faith-filled person who is allowed to use their faith as a tool. If that wasn’t who I am that might be different.”
“Within my own (summer) camp I run my camps just like I run my program. You’re getting a taste of what we do. We pray before everything.”
Related link:
Carley’s bio page on St. Vincent-St. Mary website