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\"dobee.plaisance.voila.2013\"<\/a>DoBee Plaisance has had unprecedented success as the Nicholls women’s basketball coach, but she’s not done yet.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

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t wasn\u2019t supposed to happen this way.<\/p>\n

Nicholls women\u2019s basketball had just wrapped up its best season in team history, securing a coveted spot in the 2013 Southland Conference tournament.<\/p>\n

At the previous year\u2019s tournament, the Colonels had done the unthinkable \u2014 winning their first postseason game while knocking off top-seeded Central Arkansas. The 20-point upset announced to the conference that the historically downtrodden Nicholls program was now one to be contended with.<\/p>\n

All season long, Coach DoBee Plaisance and her players had worked to ensure that 2013 would be their year. And it seemed like it might be. Back on the Merrell Center court in Katy, Texas, the Colonels were as close as they had ever come to a championship title. But in the tournament\u2019s second round, that dream unraveled as they fell 86-70 to McNeese State University, a team they had beaten twice during the season.<\/p>\n

The loss stung, no doubt. But one defeat wasn\u2019t enough to weaken Plaisance\u2019s resolve to win a conference championship. When it comes to winning, she doesn\u2019t mince words.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m going to win a championship every year,\u201d she says, \u201cand that\u2019s never going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standing out, on and off the court <\/span><\/h2>\n

Mere mention of a Nicholls women\u2019s basketball championship would have been considered foolish when Plaisance arrived at Nicholls in 2008. The team went 2-25 that season, but Plaisance didn\u2019t lose hope.<\/p>\n

Slowly, she turned the tide after that two-win season, doubling team wins to four in 2010 and eight in 2011, then 15 in 2012 and 19 in 2013. Methodically, season by season, she\u2019s built up not only the program but also the integrity of her players.<\/p>\n

Ask her how she did it, and Plaisance attributes everything to faith, family and education \u2014 a trinity of values that her parents, Ray and Judy Ronquillo, instilled in her from an early age.<\/p>\n

The oldest of four girls and one boy, Plaisance grew up in a large, tightknit New Orleans family. Even back then, she was a social ringleader with a supersized personality. As a slightly mischievous teen, she once caused a gas leak that closed a wing of her high school. With her biology teacher away from the classroom, Plaisance unknowingly kicked a gas knob while dancing on top of a lab table and showing off her Elvis impersonation to \u201cBlue Suede Shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been told I\u2019ve never met a stranger, and that\u2019s because I love people,\u201d says Plaisance, who describes herself as being the \u201cgood kind of bad kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the first of three Ronquillo children to play Division I athletics, Plaisance made a name for herself by adopting an aggressive, scrappy playing style. At Southeastern Louisiana University, where she played for two years, Plaisance was ejected from a game after unintentionally knocking an opposing player out cold with her elbow. Known on campus as the \u201cHammond Hammer,\u201d the 6-foot-2-inch Plaisance planned to continue her playing career in Germany until her father insisted she complete her degree.<\/p>\n

After earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in health science and attending graduate school, Plaisance switched gears and embarked on a coaching career.<\/p>\n

Having a little faith <\/span><\/h2>\n

More than 25 years later, coaching underdog teams into championship winners has become the story of Plaisance\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s basketball program at St. Martin\u2019s Episcopal School in Metairie was largely disregarded when Plaisance took over as head coach in 1986. Handed a team with only \u201cthree preppy girls who didn\u2019t like to sweat,\u201d Plaisance still believed she could win state championships there. In her eight years, she led the team to seven state playoffs and two state titles.<\/p>\n

\"Women's<\/a>\u201cI didn\u2019t plan to leave St. Martin\u2019s,\u201d she says. \u201cIn my mind, I was going to continue to win state championships and then retire. That was my plan. I always tell people, if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1995, Loyola University approached Plaisance with an offer to be the first head coach of its newly established women\u2019s basketball program. The opportunity was too big for Plaisance to turn down.<\/p>\n

With no assistant coaches, no scholarships to offer and few resources, Plaisance \u2014 now a mother of two \u2014 juggled the roles of head coach, recruiter, athletic trainer and operations manager. She taped ankles, set up bleachers before games, mopped floors and washed uniforms. After multiple seasons with only single-digit wins, Plaisance turned to her Christian faith for guidance and led an inspired season-opening practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told those kids: \u2018You have two choices in life. You can look at what you have or what you don\u2019t have. You have a staff that cares, but if you look at what we don\u2019t have, we\u2019re screwed. I\u2019m tired of losing; it\u2019s time we win here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Loyola Wolfpack went 21-11 that season, beating three Division I schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I wanted to do was get a banner up at Loyola,\u201d she remembers. \u201cWell, by the time I left, there were two conference and two tournament championship banners hanging.\u201d<\/p>\n

After leading her team to the NAIA Elite Eight in 2008, Plaisance once again found herself with an offer to leave a successful program and take over a struggling one \u2014 this time at Nicholls.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I learned that Nicholls women\u2019s basketball had never had a winning season and had never won a postseason game, that\u2019s what hooked me,\u201d says the headstrong Plaisance. \u201cI felt like this was a place where I could make a difference. Some of my friends in Division I said, \u2018This isn\u2019t the one, DoBee. Wait for another opportunity. It\u2019s going to be a career-ender for you.\u2019 But that just fired me up more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making basketball a family affair <\/span><\/h2>\n

Plaisance calls herself a \u201ccoach mom,\u201d and it\u2019s a fitting description for how she interacts with her players and her own children. Whether she\u2019s talking to her daughter, Theresa \u2014 a senior on the LSU basketball team and National Player of the Year candidate \u2014 or her son, Scott Jr. \u2014 a senior at Metairie Park Country Day School and highly recruited basketball player \u2014 or her team, Plaisance doles out the same basic advice: Do the right thing. And trust that doing the right thing will eventually pay off.<\/p>\n

She deliberately blurs the lines between basketball and life principles. \u201cWhen my players don\u2019t run a line drill fast enough, I don\u2019t get on them about being lazy; I get on them about settling,\u201d Plaisance says. \u201cI ask, \u2018What are you going to do, settle in life? You can\u2019t just do what you feel like every day. You have to get up every morning, push yourself and do what you don\u2019t feel like.\u2019 It\u2019s all about accountability, faith and discipline \u2014 in life and on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plaisance\u2019s own children learned these lessons early, often accompanying their mom to her practices and camps. She didn\u2019t force them to go the athletics route, but she made sure they were in that environment from a young age. Now in their ultracompetitive household, it\u2019s Plaisance\u2019s husband, Scott, who helps everyone keep life in perspective.<\/p>\n

Married for 23 years, Plaisance and Scott have known each other since they were 9 years old \u2014 back when she asked him to join a neighborhood backyard kickball game. An outside salesman for DCL Mooring and Rigging, Scott is an easygoing dad and husband who splits his time among his wife\u2019s, daughter\u2019s and son\u2019s athletic events.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the perfect complement to me,\u201d Plaisance says. \u201cHe\u2019s just a fun guy who loves to fish, loves a good joke and has fun just playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coaching with confidence <\/span><\/h2>\n

Plaisance, on the other hand, readily admits that she wants to win at everything. \u201cI want to beat my players on the bus at spades, for Pete\u2019s sake,\u201d she says with her room-filling laugh.<\/p>\n

When she recruits potential players, Plaisance sells them on the idea that they can make a difference at Nicholls and be a part of something special. Even though she has had unprecedented success with the Nicholls women\u2019s basketball program, Plaisance wants more for herself and her players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t come here as a stepping stone. I came here to do something, and I haven\u2019t done it yet,\u201d she says. \u201cI never said how long it was going to take me to win a championship here. It took me 13 years to reach sustained success at Loyola. But I feel like it\u2019s time at Nicholls. This year, we have no excuses. We will have no distractions. We will all be on the same page.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not afraid to say it \u2014 we\u2019re supposed to win this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Written by Clyde Verdin Jr., media relations director for athletics<\/em><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in the fall 2013 issue of Voila! magazine. Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read the entire issue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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