Women's Soccer
Fishter, Donna
Donna Fishter
- Title:
- Consultant
Donna Fishter is in her fourth season consulting for Ducks Soccer as their leadership specialist and team architect. Her primary role is building a strong team culture and providing leadership training. She also provides assistance in player development strategies and focuses on coaching our coaches.
In today's society it is the coach that has the greatest impact in an athlete's life. Fishter is passionate about educating coaches on how to connect better with players and build mentally and emotionally strong athletes. This intrinsic focus filters into how a team’s culture functions. She teaches that the beliefs and behaviors of players can be mobilized in such a way to create increased ownership in the team. In the end, this is a competitive advantage.
Fishter coached soccer for more than 20 years at all levels, from youth to the college game.
She stepped out of the X's and O's so that she could focus entirely on leadership training and culture development for coaches, teams, and athletes across the country.
This intense focus on the intangible side of the game began at what she now calls her "laboratory,” the University of Central Florida (UCF). Fishter spent 13 years at UCF coaching with World Cup champion and Olympian Amanda Cromwell. Fishter was the catalyst to the leadership development program and was the architect behind the team culture that moved UCF from #145 (NCAA RPI final ranking) in 2000 to a consistently recognized Top-25 program by 2007. She left UCF with a career record of 187-77-25, eight conference championship titles and 10 NCAA postseason appearances.
Fishter mentors coaches and athletes at all levels and consults for NCAA collegiate teams in several different sports. She has programs consistently compete in postseasons including a national championship and national runners-up.
Fishter is a certified leadership coach with the John Maxwell Coaching Team and is the heart of what it means to be an educator, motivator, and mentor.
She resides in Orlando, Fla., with her all-American dog Condi.
In today's society it is the coach that has the greatest impact in an athlete's life. Fishter is passionate about educating coaches on how to connect better with players and build mentally and emotionally strong athletes. This intrinsic focus filters into how a team’s culture functions. She teaches that the beliefs and behaviors of players can be mobilized in such a way to create increased ownership in the team. In the end, this is a competitive advantage.
Fishter coached soccer for more than 20 years at all levels, from youth to the college game.
She stepped out of the X's and O's so that she could focus entirely on leadership training and culture development for coaches, teams, and athletes across the country.
This intense focus on the intangible side of the game began at what she now calls her "laboratory,” the University of Central Florida (UCF). Fishter spent 13 years at UCF coaching with World Cup champion and Olympian Amanda Cromwell. Fishter was the catalyst to the leadership development program and was the architect behind the team culture that moved UCF from #145 (NCAA RPI final ranking) in 2000 to a consistently recognized Top-25 program by 2007. She left UCF with a career record of 187-77-25, eight conference championship titles and 10 NCAA postseason appearances.
Fishter mentors coaches and athletes at all levels and consults for NCAA collegiate teams in several different sports. She has programs consistently compete in postseasons including a national championship and national runners-up.
Fishter is a certified leadership coach with the John Maxwell Coaching Team and is the heart of what it means to be an educator, motivator, and mentor.
She resides in Orlando, Fla., with her all-American dog Condi.
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