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Reflections of a 5th-Grade Girls Basketball Coach

Life Lessons from Girls’ Hoops

Charlie Duncheon

Copyright © 2010 Charlie Duncheon

Characters appearing in Chapter 1 beyond the Los Gatos scene are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.

The names of girls in some of the anecdotes have been changed to protect the innocent, and I do mean innocent.

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2011-09-12

Dedication

To Casey, Sydney, and Dagney. Thanks for the memories.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all the girls I had the pleasure of coaching from 1996 to 2010 in Los Gatos, California, including teams from the Recreational League, the Calvary Church League, St. Mary’s Grade School, National Junior Basketball (NJB) and NJB All Net. I can only hope that their experiences were as warm and rewarding as mine were. I thank my loving wife Dana who first talked me into coaching, which led to great basketball experiences with my three daughters and their wonderful teammates. I also thank my fellow volunteer coaches Steve Annen, Paul Beaupre, Jerry Bellotti, Derek Bowers, Michel Chmielewski, Dave Freitas, the late Bill Garfield, Pat Lacey, Jim and Kate McCaffrey, George Montanari, Truman Roe, Paul Simone, Joanne Varni, Mary Sue Penza, and Steve Smith who gave their valuable hours to the benefit of girls’ basketball experience in Los Gatos. Lastly, I thank Fast Pencil and fellow Hoosier Melody Culver for teaching me how to publish a book.