So this week is an amazing week. Much has happened in the last few months of my life. Much! Back in November 18, 2008... I began an amazing journey as a girls varsity head coach at Warren High School. So here I am now...looking back a few months ago. Wow. What an amazing thing this has been. I guess the emotions I feel inside about this years girls team is something i just can't describe but to say I am so very proud of them. So here is a little break down... Dec 2008 we won the Downey Tournament (4 straight wins), which should lead to good signs. We played then 11 games in a row and then prepared for the big San Diego tournament. We hit our rough spots and worked through them. These girls have practiced every single day including Christmas Eve and Saturday mornings at 7:30am. They have put in a great amount of time.
My assistant is amazing and have enjoyed this time with her. We also, well I call him my "skills" coach, who looks at my film and gives me a different look at things... he is amazing. I love them and am grateful for them.
We finished 9-7 in preseason, which is good. I wanted a couple more wins going into league but we are okay. Our league opener is with Lynwood, (if you don't know them you will never understand.. they are a good team) We lost by 18, which in all reality not bad (in the last 4 yrs at this school an average loss to them is 40 pts). Our first round we went 4-1, headed to play Lynwood again at home. What a game that was. It was for the league title. We ended up losing that game by 14. Anyone who was there can say... what a game... It didn't feel like a 14 pt loss.
Then the Downey Game at Warren. LOL. What an intense game. Both teams played respectably well. Downey played really well. So did my girls. We just couldn't hit a shot. So instead of dwelling on it we needed to get ready for Dominguez. We knew that would be a battle at there place and it was just that. But we conquered and won that battle 46-34. We got out of there alive. Again for those who were there completely understand what I am saying.
So here we are now. We finished league 7-3 and 2nd place. The first for Warren high School. At least in a really long time. I am very proud of them. Very very proud of these girls.
On Sunday, Feb 15, 2009 we got word that we are to travel on Thursday, Feb 19, 2009 to Victorville, California and play Silverado HS. They finished 1st in there league and have for the last couple of years. We are really excited about that. Coaches that have seen us play and who have played Silverado all say it will be close but feel like we can come out ontop. So we shall see!! We have had good pratices this week.
We started Monday morning with a team meeting discussing our week and brought a different attack to the girls for the week. We are to be like a Wolf I told them. I explained to them that wolves are the only animals that return the human stare. The wolf before making an attack, 1-identifies the weakness of the opponent, 2-attacks 3-tears down the opponent and 4-makes the kill. They got fired up and enjoyed I feel that thought. So this week they each are carrying around a picture of a wolf and are being reminded in practice the 4 points of the attack of a wolf. The last thing about a wolf is that when it makes the attack, nothing can stop it and its eyes gaze over and focuses only on the prey. We shall do the same.
So what is our deepest fear?... I read to them a quote that I love from Coach Carter.
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's just not in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
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