Intentional Performers With Brian Levenson

Today we go beyond the surface with Coach Jessica Kern.  Coach Kern is the head women's basketball coach at Tennessee State University. Coach Kern has a terrific way with words, is super engaging, and has an incredible and irregular story. She will discuss her path to coaching, what it was like to growing up around basketball, and how sport psychology helped her excel as a college track athlete and in the future as a pro basketball player. Before taking the job at Tennessee State she was the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU). Prior to taking over the program at MVSU, Kern was an assistant coach at Furman University following a four-year stretch as head coach at NCAA Division II Lincoln (Pa.) University. In 2014-15, she was named Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Coach of the Year after leading her squad to a 22-9 mark and a share of the CIAA Northern Division title.  Taking over a Lincoln program in 2011 that had won just three games the previous season, Kern coach