Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazines 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team． Mulkey went on to win two national championships at Louisiana Tech, as well as a gold medal with the 1984 U． S． Womens Olympic basketball team． She served as an assistant coach on Louisiana Techs 1988 national championship, then turned around Baylor Universitys womens basketball program by coaching them to a national championship in a mere five years． In Wont Back Down, Mulkey reveals the many trials she has overcome, and how her children and her coaching have sustained her in her most difficult moments．