Tonight will be a very bitter sweet night for me. Its 8th night for my girls basketball team and Ill be coaching them for the last time at Belfry Middle School. I get a little choked up thinking about it. These girls have meant so much to me over the last few years. My daily life was scheduled around them, I spent pretty much everyday with them including the summer months. They are truly like family and Im gonna miss them more than anyone will ever know. We have had our ups and downs but we have always stuck together. I have been very hard on them, I have pushed them to their limits mentally and physically and they never backed down. They are my special group. A group I will always cherish and a group that has done things that legends are made of. Their accomplishments are countless, things they have done is remarkable. They are the last of my Notorious 9 (My original nine 5th and 6th graders.) Last year I lost Lena Hairston and Taylor Maynard and this year I will be saying good bye to Kailee Rash, Ariel Mounts, Emily Deaton, Lyndsey Miller, Kylea Stanley, Kaelyn Stafford, and (Hannah Bailey who moved to Johnson County.) These 9 girls changed girls basketball in this area. They made it the popular thing to do, they made it cool, and they turned this basketball program into a State Championship program. They set the bar very high around here and they done it from scratch. As 5th and 6th graders they were thrown into 8th grade ball and they got destroyed but they stuck it out, worked their butts off and they became a very special team. I want to give a special thank you to Lyndsey Miller, Emily Deaton, Kailee Rash, and (Lena Hairston last year) for sacrificing another year of school to give me the opportunity to coach you an extra year. I hope you all feel it was worth it because I know it was to me. I also Want to thank Sydney Staggs, Brett Miller and Danny Deaton. You all have played a huge roll in the success at BMS. Enjoy your time together tonight and cherish it. These are the best days of your lives. Thank you girls for all that youve done!
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:49:14 +0000
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