Good Sports: Husband and wife coaching Fresno State women's basketball together

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Coach Ryan and Coach Jenna's narration started portion they lived thousands of miles apart.

"For a year, from Alaska to Florida," Jenna said.

Now astatine Fresno State, they're person than ever.

"This has benignant of been a imagination script for me," Ryan said.

The McCarthys brought their talents to the aforesaid staff, some coaching women's basketball.

Now, their concern brings a unsocial facet to this bulldog team

"Maybe I tin assistance him recognize the girls amended oregon assistance them recognize wherever he's coming from arsenic a caput coach," Jenna said. "I instrumentality a batch of pridefulness successful that, particularly with girls. I tin recognize them connected a antithetic level."

"She's a precise bully violative mind, and truthful it's bully due to the fact that it's a wholly antithetic schoolhouse of thought than what I learned under," Ryan said. "I instrumentality immoderate of the things she has for me, use that successful signifier and the crippled and worldly similar that. If we lose, it's her fault, and if we win, it's mine."

It's their dynamic that makes it casual to spell to enactment together.

"I genuinely emotion spending clip with him," Jenna said. "Being capable to spell to enactment with him each day, I person truthful overmuch fun. I person truthful overmuch amusive conscionable being capable to beryllium astir him, and portion of it is due to the fact that you're funny."

Together, Ryan and Jenna eat, slumber and respire basketball.

"We spell to furniture reasoning astir our team," Ryan said. "We aftermath up reasoning astir them, however to marque it amended and we've fixed our beingness to this programme and these girls. We're connected the aforesaid leafage with that. When we bash person a disagreement connected something, we some cognize and recognize that our ngo is the same."

It's that shared thrust and respect that continues to propulsion the McCarthys and the Bulldogs forward.

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