Our High School Season Comes to an End Podcast

The high school women’s basketball team I coach in Boone, North Carolina just had their season come to an end when we lost during the third round of the state playoffs. The game also marked the end of a thirteen year run where every year but one I coached one of my daughter’s on a team.

I thought I was finished coaching in 2003 but when my daughter Charlotte was a second grader, I signed her up for 2nd grade basketball at the local YMCA in New Canaan, Connecticut. I distinctly remember carrying a bag of basketballs out to the car with little 2nd grade Charlotte wearing a black Puma sweatsuit as we went to our first practice together. This weekend, Sat Feb 28th, my daughter Izzy and I got in my truck, also with a bag of basketballs, so we could load up the Watauga High School bus and drive to what would be her last high school game.

Notes for discussion for this episode:

1. A feeling of numbness that works to hold off sadness
2. The personally tricky spot of coaching a team that has my daughter as a player on it.
3. A little about this year’s team
4. A little about the loss to Alexander Central, how the game went
5. The story of coaching my kids for thirteen years
6. The decision to keep coaching for now
7. The workflow of what it’s like to prepare for and coach 10 games in 21 days.
8. Now that the season is over, what is there to do? Taxes, the big bees nest, trees in the yard, the problem of the mud, Megan and I went for a walk in the park

Thanks for listening to this episode of the Torg Stories Podcast!