Main Areas: sports parenting/parenting Career Focus: writer, columnist, blogger, always a mom, always a sports lover Janis was brought up in a sports family, married a man who has coached for 26 years,and has had three kids play sports from age 5 to college. She sees issues a bit differently, with a perspective of life from both sides of the bench--as a coach's wife and as an athlete's parent. She writes a sports parenting column and continues to find new content for her blogs and column with her youngest daughter playing high school sports and her son playing in college.