Creative Coaching

Not long to go now until the girls high school season starts here in Michigan! I can’t wait until the shackles are removed and we can start to practice and play in earnest. I think the MHSAA is so smart in having these tight rules designed to prevent high school age kids from having fun. It really gives us parents a chance to see just how clever the coach is as he is forced to come up with ever more devious ways to get around the rules and allow the girls to practice before the official date.

I really think our new coach could be the most creative we have had in the history of the program. Not only did he get blessed with the fact that five girls from his MRL travel team just happened to move into the district right after he was appointed, but he also came up with the idea of holding the conditioning classes in the old junior high gym where no-one ever goes and we can use the balls as often as we like!

He also has a fantastic ability to plan ahead with the word being that he had completed his tryouts just before the Christmas break! How efficient is that?! This has given the varsity starting line-up the chance to play together in the indoor league at Ultidome under the watchful eye of a tame parent. You know I think the coach and this parent are so alike each other in lots of ways – the parent spends almost the whole game on his cell phone and there is the coach, watching from the opposite side, on his cell phone too!

For all his creativity and efficiency he is also pretty flexible and open to parent input. For example we all noticed that Edna Wellthorpe’s daughter started to play with the Ultidome team just after Edna had been spotted making out with the coach at a ball-handling clinic he held for inexperienced parents.

So roll on March 9th and I hope the season isn’t spoiled by those cynics who find fault with everything.