High school basketball coach just can't win with parents

[dadofsam]

<p>Here’s the latest news on the Castro Valley High girls basketball team, where the parents wanted the coach fired because they felt she picked the wrong girsl (i.e., not their kids) for the team. So the coach agreed to have the team picked by a panel which included herself and her assistants plus neutral outsiders. </p>

<p>Well, guess what. The panel chose the team, which did not include the kids of the disaffected parents, who therefore still aren’t happy. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/30/MNGDFMM7I032.DTL[/url]”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/30/MNGDFMM7I032.DTL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Note by the way that Castro Valley High is not a major sports power among Bay Area high schools.</p>

<p>My favorite quote is about a comment made by one of last year’s co-captains:</p>

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Jay-Marie Hill, a co-captain on last year’s team who is now a student at Stanford University, says [coach] Nibarger barked at her when she wanted to go to a church event instead of a basketball tournament. Although Hill had a sprained ankle and couldn’t play, Nibarger wanted her there as a team leader. The two had words and, depending on whom you speak to, one of them hung up on the other.
“I told her two weeks later that I felt very disrespected by that,” says Hill, who elected to come to the game after all but was hurt by the fact that Nibarger didn’t say hello. “To me, that just shows a lack of character.”

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<p>Sheeeesh!</p>

<p>Just as an aside, I don’t know whether Hill is a candidate for Stanford’s nationally ranked women’s basketball team but from what I have heard, if she were, she would be spending four years being barked at and “disrespected” up, down and sideways by Stanford’s long-time and highly effective women’s coach Tara Vanderveer.</p>

[NJres]

<p>woof! (10 characters! LOL)</p>