Return Fire

The following was a response from Jesup Boys' Basketball Coach Hugh DeBerg about my "Retribution" article. He see's things very clear. He wanted me to put it in my comments, but I thought it was too good to waste there. Thanks Coach.



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Kids specializing in a given sport is absolutely crazy in my mind, many of our celebrated professional athletes from the state of Iowa were 4 sport letter winners, and it does not matter what size of school they attended. There are several in state college coaches that want their recruited student/athletes to have experienced all sports available while in high school. One can go to the Iowa State University Ladies Basketball web-site and look at the number of student/athletes on that squad that were multi-sport athletes in high school, and very successful ones at that. Student/athletes need to experience as much as they can while they are in high school, because when they graduate, it is far too late for many to experience the rewards gained from competition. I have one question, how many 4 sport letter winners has our own Jesup Community Schools put out in the past 5 years? Not many come to mind quickly, and we are a small school that should and needs to have multiple 4 sport athletes for our boys and girls athletics programs. Off my soap box, crazy that we need to be discussing such things. H.DeBerg