What a Day! Venice Wins in Three – Regional Champions!

What a tremendous team effort, we defeated Clearwater in three games to advance to state championship Final Four Wednesday night in Lakeland. We will play Leon High School of Tallahassee, a team that we split with during the regular season. We came out of the blocks in the first game smoking, it was the best game I have seen the team play in my three years working with the team. Warm-up carried right into the game (more on that in a later post). I feel fortunate to be part of this program. Brain Wheatley the head coach gave me the opportunity three years ago to begin working with his program. Frankly this group of coaches and kids reignited my passion for coaching. I just hope that all of you sometime in your careers get the opportunity to work with a group of kids as focused and dedicated as this group. Now to refocus on the goal , the state championship, I compare it to a high hurdle race (each hurdle is a match), we have cleared the eighth hurdle, we can see the finish, but we have to execute a great three steps (win three games) to set up clearance of the ninth hurdle. We are almost there.