The 2009 Season Begins!

Whew! The 2009 season is here! We had our first day of practice today and it went very well. I found it fairly easy to create excitement today considering the accomplishments of last year’s team. Today we took care of a lot of “housekeeping” stuff – checking out practice gear, lockers, going over practice expectations, etc., but we also did a few skills and the focus was very good and we got better today. I’m always looking for 1% improvement each day – if each player can improve just 1% each day, we’re on our way to where we want to be.

Today we talked about last spring – as coaches, we decided (with some advice from a University of Michigan asst. coach) that we needed to talk about the accomplishments of last year – not live them, but remember them. We defined success today and used John Wooden to help us do it. As a group we defined success as the peace of mind that comes with knowing that you did the very best you could to become the best that you are capable of becoming. We talked about one of the cornerstones of our program – working the process and letting the end result take care of itself.

Piece by piece we will work on putting the puzzle back together this year – different players, a couple different coaches, a different floor in our gym, but the same philosophies and values that have gotten us to this point. We’re not going to try to defend our title this year – we’re just going to try to win another one.

Hit ‘em hard, run 60 feet, and turn left!

Coach Huntington

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