Losing

So, in the last year, I've really had to get myself accustomed to losing. Since I took over as head coach in the middle of last year, my teams have gone 1-30. That's absolutely horrible!!! The last year I was in Texas, I coached a freshman team. Essentially, I took over all the coaching of this team from a woman that was pregnant and knew she would be leaving after just a few games. We ended that season 25-3 and we were 16-0 after I had taken over. Our whole program at Bryan was successful like that. I thing between all three teams that season, we were 75-13 and 33-1 in district play. It was great to be a part of that and really hard to come take over a program that has done almost nothing but lose. We actually, although only winning one game, could call ourselves more successful than last year even though we aren't winning. The game we won, we won by 20 over a team we only beat by 6 last year. At the end of the season, we have actually been competitive and have come within 10 points of teams that beat us easily the first time we saw them. One of my seniors that didn't start playing basketball till she started high school, has dramatically improved. In the first half of the season, she had very little production. In the last three games, she has totalled almost 25 points and almost 35 rebounds. Those are the things I'm proud of and those are the victories I claim. It still sucks to lose. These girls deserve to see more than improvement. They deserve to end a game with their score being higher than the other team's, just one more time. We have two more opportunities for this to happen.