It really is fun being involved in helping young kids develop........I watched my daughter develop from a shy, awkward, slow, not so confident girl into a pretty dang good 2 guard.

I coached her for 5 years in AAU basketball.......we took a bunch of kids who were not good enough to make their school teams, and MADE THEM BETTER. We ran 3 different teams, and travelled all over the 5 state area (indiana, KY, Tenn, OHIO, ILL).

After 3 or so years, our A team was pretty DANG good.......and regularly beat teams that were better than us. We always tried to "play up" because that required us to play against better and stronger teams. We were BLOWN out a LOT but when we played league play and tourney play for AAU state, were were always better than our competition because we had much more experience.

Some of the girls that played for me are now playing D1 and D2 ball............

I really do miss those days...........

Later,

Geo