What a tremendous team
effort, we defeated Clearwater in three games to advance to state championship Final
Four Wednesday night in Lakeland. We will play Leon High School of Tallahassee, a
team that we split with during the regular season. We came out of the blocks in
the first game smoking, it was the best game I have seen the team play in my
three years working with the team. Warm-up carried right into the game (more on
that in a later post). I feel fortunate to b
e part of this program. Brain
Wheatley the head coach gave me the opportunity three years ago to begin
working with his program. Frankly this group of coaches and kids reignited my
passion for coaching. I just hope that all of you sometime in your careers get
the opportunity to work with a group of kids as focused and dedicated as this
group. Now to refocus on the goal , the state championship, I compare it to a
high hurdle race (each hurdle is a match), we have cleared the eighth hurdle,
we can see the finish, but we have to execute a great three steps (win three
games) to set up clearance of the ninth hurdle. We are almost there.
