Expect More!

Dare to Stand Up and Stand Out

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Pub Date 19 Feb 2021 | Archive Date 1 Apr 2021

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Muffet McGraw coached hundreds of smart, talented young women in her thirty-three seasons as the head coach of the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team. She says that almost all of them struggled with confidence. In Expect More!, McGraw motivates women to fly past the barriers that limit their confidence so they can attain the highest positions of leadership.

In a comment at the 2019 NCAA Final Four press conference that went viral, McGraw said, “We don’t have enough female role models. We don’t have enough visible women leaders. We don’t have enough women in power.”

She wasn’t just talking about basketball.

In Expect More!: Dare to Stand Up and Stand Out, McGraw shares a bold message: It’s time for women to take a rightful and fair place in positions of leadership. In order to do that, she says, women should approach every opportunity not only with confidence but also with swagger. After all, “You can’t have success without confidence. And you can’t have swagger unless you are successful at what you do.”

McGraw came to leadership naturally through sports. Growing up in Philadelphia prior to the passage of Title IX—which sought equality in sports—she was often the only woman on the court with nine men.

Nevertheless, even well into her time at Notre Dame, McGraw found inequalities between her women’s team and the men’s teams on campus. “The men were flying to places and women were taking the bus.” she says. She felt it was her duty to the women she coached to speak out about the unfairness. By the end of her coaching career, McGraw was a leading spokesperson for women’s basketball and women in leadership.

In Expect More!, you will also hear some of the behind-the-scenes stories that helped to shape the success of McGraw and her Fighting Irish and her evolving role as a key figure at a university founded on male leadership.

While the book is primarily a guide for women to expect more in their careers and family lives, it’s also an important book for men, a primer to help them learn about how to partner with women in family life, how to raise the next generation of strong women, and to work for and with women who are in leadership positions in business.

Muffet McGraw coached hundreds of smart, talented young women in her thirty-three seasons as the head coach of the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team. She says that almost all of them...


A Note From the Publisher

Muffet McGraw retired in 2020 after thirty-three years as head coach of the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team. With an overall record of 936-293, she led the Irish to two national championships (2001, 2018). McGraws’s teams appeared in twenty-six NCAA tournaments, including seventeen Sweet Sixteens, nine Final Fours, and seven championship games.

Among her many honors, McGraw ranks first on the all-time wins list among single-sport coaches in the history of Notre Dame athletics. She is a three-time consensus NCAA coach of the year and a seven-time conference coach of the year. In 2017, McGraw was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame—the thirty-second woman member and thirteenth female coach. She received the 2017 Legends of Coaching Award from the John R. Wooden award committee.

A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, McGraw earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Saint Joseph’s University in 1977.

Muffet McGraw retired in 2020 after thirty-three years as head coach of the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team. With an overall record of 936-293, she led the Irish to two national...


Advance Praise

“Muffet McGraw does more than declare that women should have an equal seat at the table; she challenges and empowers us all to pursue that seat for ourselves!”
Ruth Riley Hunter 
University of Notre Dame Women’s Basketball (1997–2001) 
WNBA (2001–2014) 

“It is no surprise that this book would be titled Expect More! because that is exactly how Muffet McGraw coached and how she led the Notre Dame women’s basketball program—powerfully, highly competitively, brilliantly, forcefully, and demandingly. She sharpened my drive to be the best by setting the example in the way that she lived her life. I am strong, I am successful, and I am powerful because of her.”
Niele Ivey 
Head Basketball Coach 
University of Notre Dame 

 “Muffet McGraw’s extraordinary success as a basketball coach earned her a richly deserved spot in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, but for her, that success pales in comparison to her success in developing confident, empowered young women who are prepared to lead. Having worked closely with her for twelve years, I had the privilege of observing and learning much from McGraw that I now apply to my personal and professional life. I am thrilled that with the publication of Expect More! others will now get the opportunity to gain similar insights.”
Jack Swarbrick
Vice President and James E. Rohr Director of Athletics 
University of Notre Dame 

Expect More! will empower you to lead with conviction and with a full heart.”
Debbie Antonelli 
College Basketball Analyst 

“For thirty-three years, Muffet McGraw coached our basketball team, achieving great success and taking women’s basketball at Notre Dame and nationally to unprecedented heights. She has, in this insightful book, taken all of the lessons learned throughout her distinguished career and provided a guide to leadership and life that will be tremendously beneficial to rising women leaders as well as anyone committed to encouraging and empowering capable, confident women leaders.”
Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. 
President 
University of Notre Dame

“Muffet McGraw does more than declare that women should have an equal seat at the table; she challenges and empowers us all to pursue that seat for ourselves!”
Ruth Riley Hunter 
University of Notre...


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Muffet McGraw writes in her book about equality for women. Her message is women should network and help each other, not tear each other down. They should empower each other. Also by now, we should not be surprised when a women is put in power, whether it be a CEO to being the President of the United States. The book follows her career playing basketball to coaching. It shows how their is still inequality. I think this is a wonderful book for everyone. If you have a daughter, I think its a great read for them. Thank you to NetGalley and Ave Marie Press for the E-ARC. This is my own opinion.

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