Monday Morning Sports Update
Local Guest:
Coach Dell Leonard, Mountain Home Bomber Golf / Lady Bomber Basketball
[Music] it’s now time for The Morning Show on XL7 [Music] TV welcome to the Morning Show on XL 7tv I’m Bob brickwell this is scooter Scott call how are you sir it’s Monday it is oh Monday no Monday no one more day would be nice one more day but it’s all right no I don’t think so yeah you’d just be mowing all day so well until the rain comes yeah we do got rain coming leaves yeah you have a busy weekend I did I did some work on my truck and I got one of them Dodge hemmies that got that you know hem exhaus stic the other Chevy’s got them too and uh yeah but mine was getting pretty bad so decided I was going to do both of them and then I ran into one little issue on and come to find out that they it was the wrong bolts but trying to figure out why the heck they aren’t lining or working the way they should and everything so ended up being a late night last night we we fell behind trying to figure that out and then with the rain coming in we decided we just get the lights out and get it all done and so we got done about 10:30 last night you and Amanda me Amanda my dad well of course popper of course popper he’s got to be there now does he drive home or did he spend the night no he drove home he drove home yeah what a guy yeah yeah he was he was the one that’s like all right let’s just get and and we were going to hold off you know he’s like use the other vehicle and then tomorrow we’ll finish this side up and we got to looking at the weather it’s like oh no we ain’t finishing this up tomorrow so then we just decided my d was the ones like all right get the flood lights out get her done and you did and it and I did and and it cured the problem it is very very quiet and uh you don’t hear the tick at all anymore and everything is done right and all torqued down and so I’m happy I’m happy happy scooter happy scooter is a good scooter here you go so how was your weekend uh busy busy yeah busy mowing of course yeah yeah mowing mowing mowing mowing yeah and trying to just catch up from all the ring yeah I get it I get it but it’s U Good Boy made a trip down to Down On To The River you know down on River Road but we went down through Brier Cliffe U on five yeah and just looking at the devastation from five boy it’s nasty oh yeah it’s going to be a long time before that gets cleaned up yeah it is going to take time unfortunately of course the mayor will be here Wednesday so we’ll get his inside scoop on what what all is going on and what the what the governor had to say yesterday and she was here yesterday came up and scoped things out in back County she had been here to Maran County last week yeah and she came up bter County and spent some time in briercliffe and I believe there’s some help on the way awesome which would be good be a good thing folks are going to need it for sure there’s no doubt it’s they’ve got a lot of Devastation down there and so it’s it’s uh it’s always a tough thing and I mean it’s easy to say it’s just material stuff you can get but this you know when you when something like this happens you lose all the memory stuff that you can’t get back the pictures the you know stuff that’s personal to you you know and it’s it’s hard it really is yeah houses can be replaced but all that special stuff cannot you know anyway let’s go to the morning prayer all right it’s time for morning prayer brought to you by hospice of the Ozarks 87508 1771 is our number Greg wood and his staff do a wonderful job with helping people in their time of need they’ve been serving back Marian County since 1979 they’ll be glad to answer any questions you might have about Hospice Care Hospice of the Ozarks 87508 1771 now the morning prayer Lord we just thank you for the beautiful weather that you’ve given us over the weekend Lord we just thank you for the work that has been able to be completed and restoring power for all the enty customers Lord and and just a few left for North Arkansas Electric L we just pray that you’ll give them patience and let them know that they’re working as fast as they can Lord we just thank you for our troops that are fighting in conflicts overseas Lord we pray for their families that they’ve been left behind Lord we just pray for our government our federal our state our County and our city governments all across the United States Lord we just pray that you’ll be with them lead guide direct them keep them safe assure them that they are in those positions to look out for the betterment of the country not their pocketbooks Lord we just thank you for all that you do for us and it’s in Christ’s name we pray amen amen the morning prayer brought to you by hospice of the Ozarks 87508 1771 is her number give them a call we’ll be back after a quick word from Bob and Linda Zadora the Z team Century 21 Le ma reality hi I’m Bob Zadora the Z team I’d like to share something with you our team didn’t need to reach everyone to be considered successful we only needed the power of one one person was delighted with the 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city of bull Sholes the beautiful White River at the trout capital of the world Carter Arkansas run through some temperatures as that clicks through that’s what it was a little bit of fog down there walking the the Clear Water going to run through some temperatures as the live Clips clip through currently in Mountain Home at 70 Harrison is 68 Batesville is 70 Yellville 69 Marshall 66 Salem 66 Mountain View is 66 calar rock is 70 West Plains Missouri is 69 Springfield is 70 St Louis Missouri 68 popular Bluff Missouri 70° Bo boom boom there you go retire to arkansas. net is the website you can go there click on MLS listings see what’s available in our area if you find something that tickles your fancy give them a call at 87405 793 binda Zadora the Z team centry 21 liac reality let’s take a look at the radar current on the radar there’s lots of water other than that same old stuff lots of water lots of water big rainstorm going up through Montana hitting through Idaho going into Wyoming and Utah some heavy rains in Minnesota and Wisconsin some rain going through IA as well Kansas has some rain hitting through Witchita at this moment in Arkansas there’s a little bit of rain down around Little Rock it looks like it might dissipate before it gets us too hard supposed to hit us around 10:00 we’re going to zoom into [Music] Arkansas and it froze up here let’s let it get caught up as you can see it was clear around six got a little bit of rain entering into the state around 7 should be some rain hitting the lower portion of bter County around around 10 and around 11 Mountain Holmes should get hit pretty good with some rain but then it should dissipate out for the afternoon that’ be nice that would be nice on the national scene watches and warnings no big watches and warnings for the state of Arkansas got some wind advisories going on nothing in Arkansas Missouri Iowa to speak of what is that one little color there flood advisory no what is that right there that’d be flood flood that is flood advisory that’s from the remnants of all the rain we had last week yeah other than that Arkansas’s pretty clear Mississippi Alabama Tennessee is clear as well Louisana is too and let’s look at 7-day forecast currently today is going to be high of 80 chance of thunderstorms and then thunderstorms likely chance of thunderstorms tonight low of 65 high tomorrow 84 chance of rain tomorrow night low 68 chance of rain Wednesday 6 86 chance of rain Wednesday night 62 mostly clear Thursday high of 88 Sunny Wednesday night THS chance I thought it was going to be clear on Wednesday I said mostly clear Wednesday night chance of rain on Wednesday okay you want to read this NOP go right ahead Thursday high of 88 Sunny mostly clear Thursday night low of 61 high of 83 on Friday and sunny let’s see what next Saturday looks like 30% chance of rain next Saturday high of 81 next Sunday High 82 with a 30% chance of rain pollen and allergies let’s take a look here tree piling low today none tomorrow none on Wednesday grass is moderate today moderate tomorrow low on Wednesday Ragweed is low today none tomorrow none on Wednesday lake levels and Dam reports Lake Northfork hold please Lake norfor 55 8.87 which is 6.87 above full pool of 552 no generation is going on at this time Lake bull shols currently running one at minimum flow with a lake level 667.95 n above full pool of 659 and there you go they must be pushing water down because our water level’s been increased even through the weekend stuff like that yeah they’re bringing it in from Missouri for sure yeah even though we Haven any rain yeah it but the levels have been climbing yeah and the drought we don’t have anything on the drought monitor except for the south east portion of bter County and then they over toward the Northeast Arkansas they’ve got some abnormally dry and D1 moderate drought that’s looking a lot better looks a lot better that’s the lake levels Dam reports and all the updates brought to You by 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down the road I guess a tornado went right over the West Bridge there where I live and you know never heard anything it’s just crazy how those things bounce around and pop up out of nowhere I had no idea it was even raining until the electricity went off my fans died and it started sweating and I’m going what’s going on here I wouldn’t have known either if my phone hadn’t started blowing up so yeah that was my my phone went off and that’s what told me any of your players anywhere get um involved in that no we had a couple of girls at camp that that were supposed to come to Camp that were directly involved from North Fork and obviously you know we um we feel for their family and and everything that that happened and it’s h that was a sad little deal so we ended up sending them some basketballs home and than like that but as far as Mountain Home kids we didn’t I have not heard had a good week of Camp last week it was a great week it’s always a great week and I’ll tell you why it’s a great week is because we have such good coaches that come in and help us and then we our high school players are right now obviously we’re having a good run of of players who really work hard on their own and you know we had a good year last year and and most of them coming back so all the little kids know who they are are and they really look up to them and um I think if I would have had a picture and autograph session you know we’d probably been there another 2 or 3 hours after camp but our high school players they’re the real deal I mean I’m talking about not just good players but good people and I can’t wait to see what they do after you know college and and after high school and they’re all you know right now we have five that are being heavily recruited um and they’ll go on and play but all 19 20 girls well you count our managers all 23 girls are going to be successful at something do we talk more about the actual team the basketball team in the next segment the camp itself who is that open to anybody in the area just Mountain Home kids no it’s open to everybody we’ve it seems like that now everybody has a camp so we don’t get as many kids as we used to but we’ll get kids that’ll come in to stay with their grandparents and they’ll be three or four states away and it’s a really good camp it’s developed a great reputation through coach wood and Coach YY early on and we’ve tried to carry the torch so you said you have some coaches come in and help you with that who who comes in well right now it’s primarily um you know people affiliated with our program former players um such as Emma Martin came in you know playing at pit state right now and I I hate it when you ask me CU I got to start naming people remember people and I’m going to I’m going to forget somebody but uh we pulled you know the two legends um in and with brendy ancy came in and I thought I saw a picture Coach YY somewhere Don web came in you know and they’re just kid magnets and Addison Yates helped coach yansy on that side of it and she’s awesome but we just you know got our new Junior High coach coach joelie Roark um and then Jordan Campbell um our girl staff is great and Skyler King who’s actually you know got a great basketball background he’s our head soccer coach but he’s he helps with a little kids camp pton husky came in and ran our other little kids camp just again I know I’m probably missing somebody but I just um I absolutely really loved our staff and the work they did Kenley Pritchard who’s recently moved into town uh she’s engaged to Bradley lwig she runs the marketing program or works for the marketing program at the hospital and uh really good athlete from Green County Tech played volleyball and basketball and she she helped us as well this week past week how many kids did you have overall from kindergarten through seventh grade we were right around a 100 so it’s a good number MH it’s a good number it’s a real good number and when the um the little ones get an interest in it now a lot of them stick around well you hope I mean that’s the whole deal we’re not going to make them great players in 3 days but what we got to do is make them love the or help them love the game that’s the number one thing is our camp number one is a fun raiser for our program but also it is it’s a recruiting tool and um we we want those little ones and when I’m talking about recruiting tool I’m talking about kids that are in Mountain Home School District because we we are you know there’s so many sports that are offered out there and basketball is not easy mhm and when you and I and scooter played and we got out of a tough practice you know it was our parents were get your butt back out there the next day nowadays that doesn’t happen as much and you know kids kind of have the freedom to do what they want and and uh but basketball’s hard and that’s the first time that a kid may get their heart rate up it’s the first time they feel a little bit uncomfortable and so whereas you know we were told to get our Tails back out there that doesn’t happen as much anymore so you got to really try your best to get your to get those kids hooked early and uh you know kudos to every other sport out there that can get a large number of kids but I do I do think that specializing in one sport when they’re really young is a huge mistake because what happens is you know they they really specialize in I mean I’m I’m talking about like starting in the fourth grade and they specialize and they get up there around Junior now you’re getting into school programs where if you have a tremendous amount of kids you have to cut M well if your kid gets cut and they specialize in one sport then now what do they have so I think it’s a really like I’ll just tell you our entire High School roster play the Spring sport you know every one of them play at least two and some three and then others are you look at our golf team with Jack Coleman and how many things he’s involved in with band and FFA and I mean you got to you got to Branch out and try a lot of different things and when you start to specialize it really hurts kids and there’s you said a lot there when you said that the it’s easy for the parents today to just allow them to stop it is and it’s also I think there’s a little bit of a mindset well you know I’m going to pour everything I have as far as my time and my finances into my kid and this sport it doesn’t make them that doesn’t mean they’re going to be successful in that Sport and you know I think you got to have options and if you don’t have options and you’re setting your kid up for failure scoter you see that in the wrestling world too where you’ve got student athletes that uh you know McKenzie Clark is a good example of that she she did dance or cheer and then she’s wrestling and yep very active I’m a big fan of multisport athletes I think it keeps you competitive in the off season it also lets you to do something new and have that excitement to come back you know when you specialize and you work in one sport day day after day every day eventually it’s going to pay a toll I mean there’s a burnout that the risk gets higher and higher to burnout but when you’ve got other sports and that you’re jumping into and you get this excitement to come back and you’re still staying competitive and there’s just a lot of things that being a multiport athlete I think benefits that that kid coach Leonard when you when you look at the number of multisport athletes that you deal with on a annual basis throughout the school year because you do coach the golf team the both the boys in the girls golf team and then you go and Coach the lady bomber basketball team you know how hard is it do you help them make the decision to do the second sport or third sport or you just leave it up to them or is there one sport that would benefit basketball more than another well we They’re all playing something right now so we just try to be supportive encouraging and try to go to those games in the spring and let them see you know let them see that we are there and support them if you’ve got a kid um say that we’re today we’re going to practice we’re going to go to the track we’re going to be in the weight room and say that I’ve got a kid that we have a thing that we call 88 so you run one lap and let less than 88 seconds that’s the time you have to get and I get a Jayla Yonkers that’s getting it in 61 seconds one lap then I’m talking to the track coach and I’m saying hey man you need to look at this kid or you know and people don’t realize that Anna mccaran runs track I mean she’s our five girl she’s our post player and she outruns everybody on the team you know so I think it’s um coach husky does a great job of getting all of us to look for things like that you know you got a kid that really strong girl like a a Livy fosis you know she probably needs to be throwing the disc with a shot put which she does you know and so it’s there’s different things like that and then you know for me you could set and and pick and choose but not everybody’s going to you know for cross country is a great uh fall sport for a basketball player you know and different things like that but you got to support what their Niche is is and what they want to do and you know if you get a kid well like you know I’ve used Jack Coleman as an example but you better also make sure you know that band schedule and know that FFA schedule and that’s where he and you know that’s where Leah and Nick of course Nick has so much to do with our golf program but Leah does such a great job of letting me know okay this and so that way we try our best to not put that kid in a bad situation so but that’s where all of them and it’s it’s um it’s a lot of work and it’s a big job but you know we’re doing this for kids back in the 70s you remember the 70s well I mean I do but you know I’m talking like $6 Million Man and 1976 living in St Charles Missouri but I remember a little bit back when I was a kid in high school you know played played football for Coach Crawford and every year at the end of football it’s okay boys which sport are you going to and if you didn’t have one if you couldn’t answer that question like that fast he gave you one so I did one year I did um Clint pevl came to me and I think they had a just two girls on the girls cross country team and and I I have so much respect for what he has done and we’re our cross country program and our track program is right now and he said I’m in a buy he said I we need some Runners and you know at the time we had Domino Miller and Brook Rogers and really good group of you know they were 5 foot nothing but they could they played hard and and he said um what do you think about them running cross country so I made it mandatory and they ended up winning a state championship that year there you go and um but you can’t really make them do it anymore no you can highly encourage it but you can’t make them no so 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flying under the radar much longer I mean Livy’s I didn’t think that we would ever coach a player that would be physically stronger than Addison Yates but we found one and she’s she’s uh 5′ 11 6 feet and just I mean strong she I I truly believe that she could start at defensive end on our football team I mean she is and I don’t think the football coaches would argue with she’s in coach shal’s mock 10 program right now and I just we’re very very blessed that that Livy and AA and their family mooved here but she’s going to get some offers she’s going to play at the next level along those other three and then we have a new young lady that’s uh coming over from Harrison Brooklyn Mitchell um I thought she was one of the better guards in the League last year um and she wanted to play for Mountain Home she’s played a little bit of aaou with some of our girls and that’s um you know for me for a kid who’s that good and that’s pretty humbling that they want to come be part of your program and so that’s five kids Whitten Coleman um Sarah Williams lak Anderson you know you go to our right now what would be our top eight if they really want if though you know our three girls that you know I’m not saying that we have a starting F because we’re probably going to mix our lineup up but our top eight could be recruited you know like lak and Anderson she’s going to play softball at a high level but I’m telling you she could she could play basketball as well if she wanted to and all of those kids could play somewhere but yes Laken Moore Jayla Yonkers um Anna mccarn are getting a lot of attention right now and then liby fosis and Brooklyn Mitchell will be getting a lot of attention what is AA ball it’s called um I mean it’s got so many different acronyms now that it’s not just a but you know Arkansas amateur or Arkansas something Union whatever it’s it’s summer basketball spring and summer basketball and it’s what the college coaches use to do a lot of their recruiting Because they’re playing during our season is the same as the college season so they don’t get to do a whole lot of recruiting even though they do and in my experience is there’s a lot of good aou coaches out there and well I mean it’s just like high school I mean there’s there’s some that are really good and there’s some that aren’t and some do their job and some don’t you know you get an aou coach who’s about about developing players who is about you know AA those kids are playing aaou because they want to get seen by college coaches and our kids are all playing for coaches that are working hard to help get th get those kids seen and help develop them and some aaou coaches might it might be all about them you know and but the girl the the people that our girls are playing for are obviously doing a really good job so where’s the ver AA team to Mountain Home well I mean you could make one right here in Mountain Home um if you wanted to the our kids play um Jayla and Anna play for ISO Joe um out of Little Rock and uh Lake and Moore plays for the Oklahoma shock um Brooklyn plays for a team out of Northwest Arkansas I believe it’s the elite I think um I’m not sure what name of Livy’s team is but um she plays for um the team out of Springfield Missouri uh and then you know I don’t think that those teams do a lot of traveling around different areas to play ball yeah they go to like when you talk about different areas you’re talking about Dallas Texas Louisville Kentucky I know last year they went to Philadelphia I mean they’re all playing on a pretty high level that’s a big commitment yeah they might they might have a game and they’ll have division one coach just setting in the bleachers you know recruiting so mhm it’s something that you have to do um if you want to play at the next level and now I will tell you that the really good coaches they’re still going to call the high school coach and stay in touch with the high school coach cuz we’re the ones that you know we got to we have them during school and we spend the most time with them and and uh they’re still going to talk to you about those kids mhm so you lost a few seniors this season you’ve got some freshman coming up we got a good group of freshman coming up I don’t foresee any of them playing at The Varsity level as sophomores but I hope they have that goal um you know good kids um you know willing to learn wanting to work and and I’ve seen our older kids kind of metaphorically speaking put their arm around them and just I’ve seen I’ve seen an older kid a different older kid find a younger kid and just you can just see them helping them you know like they grab them so you’re going with me in the white room you know and you don’t have two seniors over here you have a senior and a sophomore you know and that’s the way it’s supposed to be you know I shouldn’t have to do a whole lot of work the older kids should kind of teach the younger ones the mentorship work Wonderful the way we do things right seventh grade program um what do you think think your numbers are going to look like and when will you first see those that seventh grade Pur well we’ll see them the first day of school but we’ve also have uh volleyball and we have kids that play both we do have a lot of volleyball basketball seventh graders uh so during volleyball season we won’t have very many basketball kids but when volleyball’s over we’ll get them all so that’s um you know this is the their first taste of okay now we got basketball or we got volleyball every day so who’s coaching our seventh grade program well right now I know but I can’t tell you cuz the board’s voting on it tomorrow night and I didn’t realiz we had a void there so yeah we we have a void and and we are we do have someone hired who we think is going to do a great job but the board has to vote on it and and I can’t comment it until they vote on it so okay so we don’t have a void any longer that we have a candidate well let’s hope not that depends on as as long as they’re good with it you know I I don’t feel like we’re going to be problems but eighth grade program eighth and nth grade is that combined or is that separate it’s combined and now we do we instead of saying we’re playing an eighth grade game or we’re playing nth grade game because you do and you have eighth graders sometimes that are good enough to contribute to the varsity so we have just like high school we have Junior High varsity and Junior High JV okay so and that’s the way we we worked at and you know we’ve got I know we’ve got over 30 kids in the eth grade and we’re going to have a little evaluation period I mean we can’t you know it’s it’s impossible to to have that many but we’ll have a little valuation period and then we’ll get our roster set who’s coaching them we hire Josie Roark who will soon be Josie Josie hu she’s engaged to Trevor him shoot who who runs Trevor H shoot Insurance here in town and um they’re getting married June the 15th and we are thrilled to death to have her um you know I couldn’t be luckier right now I mean obviously I’ve been lucky with the people that we’ve had on staff you know our girls basketball program has always had great coaches and but um with with Josie Roark right now at the junior high and and Jordan Campbell we’ve got some we’ve got two girls that you know have a lot of energy and they’re hungry and they work really hard and the high school staff is you and Coach husky me and Coach Husky and he’s stepping in right now because we are in a situation where you know we’re a couple of coaches short and and I we’ll eventually fill those but I mean gosh I wouldn’t have a problem with Coach husky helping me until until we’re both done you know and we have a lot of fun and um you know our the group we have right now you don’t have to Spur them much I mean they’re they’re ready to go and they’re they wear me and him out as far as you know wanting in the gym all the time and that’s good that’s a good problem to have 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all your insurance needs that’s FAO Insurance located in Mountain Home for all things glad welcome back to the Morning Show on XL 7tv talking to coach Dell Leonard we’re going to talk Mountain Home bomber golf coach it’s full swing and I you know we’re excited part in the pun you know first of all again I talked about how great our coaches are in the girls basketball program golf is you know as I’ve said before it’s it’s a little different animal I mean first of all you you can’t be the golf coach or agreed to be the golf coach and the basketball coach when you got right there where they book into each other without great coaches and you know the fact that when I’m gone to golf and Coach Husky’s there running it I know they’re in great hand the basketball players are in great hands same thing you know you’ve got we’ve got and the the thing that’s so awesome about our golf coaches they’re not getting paid you know these guys are volunteers and you know you’ve got Nick Coleman who has invested so much on the boy side and Andy West coat and Scott Sherry and then on the girl side you got Brent Edens and and Marty Edens and I’m not too proud to sit here tell you that you know I I give all of those people a ton of a ton of like ownership you know and they want it and they take it and they invest and they really work hard for our kids and what our boys team and girls team did last year was I don’t think anybody saw it coming and to look at the fact that you’ve got a lot of those kids back well all of them back on the boy side and then the girl side you have all of them we had we lost two seniors but we have a couple of younger ones coming in that I think you mix in the experience we have it could be a lot of fun and I give 100% of the credit away you know Nick is our field coach on the boys side Brent’s our field coach on the girl side what that means is I I’m the golf coach and again it’s people just think it’s one team but it’s two different teams and the Arkansas Activities Association says there can be one head coach assigned per team during a match well most of your matches boys and girls combined matter of fact almost all of them so I I had I saw the opportunity to assign someone who’s very knowledgeable and very good at what they do to the boys team and then the same to the girls instead of me trying to run around the course and Coach 10 kids or nine kids now I can just kind of be there to almost in a way assist you know Nick and assist Brent and then you’ve got Marta who is also helping out there assisting Brent and then you got me and Andy and Scott doing whatever we need to do now during practice it’s all of us together and and uh you know doing the best we can for the kids but you know when we you go back to when our Juniors our current Juniors were eighth graders um we invited them to prac practice and at that time Nick came in and started working with those kids and then some of our other staff would would be involved as well um you know outside of our high school program but we kind of had a vision and conversations on where do we want this to be in three years and we got there in two and it’s now our girls program was you know in the top two at the time we graduated some really good players and we’re kind of and then last year it felt like that it was it was just a really proud moment for our girls to see the way they ended cuz they really they never complained they just battled and they ended had a great year and then our boys you know when everybody thought that we weren’t even on the radar uh nobody had us pushing Benton for the state championship and you know we end up State runner up and I was so proud of those kids and proud of our coaches and uh it’s just I mean we’re in a good spot I mean we’re in a good spot and we’re going to host the Conference tournament we’ve got a big tournament coming up for the ultimate um well I’m not sure what the name it used to be the ultimate Auto Group but I’m not sure what the it might just be the Mountain Home Invitational but we um we’ve got a really big tournament and golf season’s really fast but there’s a lot of there’s a lot of excitement surrounding golf right now when does the season start August the 4th I believe is the first match and that’s our tournament that we host here so and it’s a big it is a huge huge ontak and you know couldn’t do it without Big Creek couldn’t do it without our community you know you never want to ask when when do they start practicing because in golf they practice all the time on their own well they should be you know and that’s when I get a a text from a player that says hey when to practice this start well number one we’ve already told them but you still get that but what we what we have developed is a program that mirrors some of the more successful programs in the state and what that means is is when their Spring sport is over if they’re a golfer then they start working on their own now you take someone like um Ian Ellison or someone like that even during baseball season he’s putting and chipping which is the ner you know that’s how you score and so so we’ve got we’ve developed a program now where we see our kids at the golf course all the time or I have the pros out there James stoski or Mark Morton or just someone in the community say hey I see your boys golf team I see your girls out there a lot and that’s good so spring going into June it’s their time after the Dead period which is like June the 26th through July the 7th um we start practice now the time of the day that we start practice is dictated on a lot of different things and that is it’s kind of funny cuz we were having this conversation off the air but you know where do they work what what’s their schedule and then the tail that’s kind of been wagging the dog these last few Summers is the heat index and you know the AAA they have us you know we have rules we have to follow with the heeden deex so there’s times where we’re either practicing early in the morning or late in the evening and just to get get in and a lot of times late in the evening doesn’t cut it because the heat index is still high but a lot of a lot of 5:30 6 a practices um I don’t really mind those because I think it does so much more than just swinging a club I think it it teaches discipline it teaches mental toughness you know there’s not very many kids getting up that early to go practice it shows you who’s dedicated and who’s not it’s not fun you know at all but but it’s also not going to be fun when you’re out there in the real world and you know you got to get things done maybe you’ll learn that um getting up a little bit earlier and getting started helps how many matches will your teams play in this season well we can play 12 each and I I have worked really hard to try to get us in some of the bigger tournaments um and we’ve been able to get in all of them except for one and we’re on the waiting list for that one but in the process of doing that I haven’t filled the holes as far as just your typical not a necessarily a tournament but just a home match and both the boys and the girls right now have seven matches each on the schedule and most of those are tournaments but when we start to fill in some of our home matches at Big Creek cuz a lot of people want to come to Mountain Home and play Big Creek that will fill those in pretty quick in in the sports that you’re involved in if of course we’ve got a lot of new people moving into our area all the time uh with all the school sports that you deal with what would you say to a parent or a grandparent that has a youngster that wants to get involved in the sport is it too late for them now or is it still and is far as you talking about golf it’s never too late um for a kid uh you know this time of the year for me for either sport now if a kid moves in I think you it doesn’t matter if you’re in the middle of the season if they’re legal you can’t that kid can’t help that you know and a lot of times it might be from because of a death in the family it might be because of a job change it might be because of a natural disaster and they had to relocate so you don’t ever I don’t think you ever punish a kid that moves in you got a kid who’s been sitting on campus and all of the sudden the middle of the year they decide they want to play and that’s that’s a nogo so you know they they um that every Situation’s different so as much as I can I’m G to try to help the kid but you can’t you can’t let a kid just jump in in the middle of the Year mhm so especially if they’ve known because a lot of those other kids have put so much time and work in know you can’t can’t hardly do that yeah but anybody that’s just moved into the area if they’re interested in getting involved in the sport just get to the school and uh go to the athletic director’s office absolutely talk to Miss Bonita coach hesky visit with them and and see what’s available see what fit is there and get them involved that’s that’s the big thing do it now in the summertime get them involved get them lined up and they’ll get you in touch with the right coach and get things rolling for you so whether you play a second or an inning or Sports can just being a member of a team when things are done right you know a good a good program can can change a kid’s life I’ve said it a 100 times there’s a number of kids student athletes that play in Mountain Home right now that that is the reason they’re still going to school not only is it easy for them to say well I don’t want to play it’s also easy for them to say I don’t want to go to school today yeah and that is that is part of the downfall of what’s going on in our world today things are too easy to quit and you can get a GED and you can still go get a job and you don’t have to have a college degree and this and that you can still go work and make good money but a lot of times I’ll say that Sports keeps kids in school yeah the you know the adversity you face in sports is going to teach you a lot about life and you know when you make a commitment to a team you know it’s you’re as a player as a parent you know you can disagree with things and you can disagree with with playing time you can disagree with whatever but when when that adversity hits if you don’t figure out how to fight through it opposed to just quitting then what are you setting yourself up for later in life mhm so yeah no one with success behind them has ever quit no and I think it’s the parents job to to help the kid through that you know kids don’t know they don’t they don’t understand yeah you know and I can’t tell you how many times that not just in our program but go ask you know if you could call in call back 90% you call back kids that have quit when maybe there was a little bit of a bump in the road or a big bump in the road I guarantee you 90% of them regret it never give up you can learn a lot by sticking with something through the end yeah absolutely coach I appreciate you taking the time in the middle of the summer the beginning of the summer to come in and join us here uh it’s always good to have you well you’re welcome it’s actually a lot easier for me to come in at this time you know because I’m not trying to get to class by 8:00 so there you go any time I mean appreciate y’all always letting us talk about our kids so anytime we get chance to do that we want to do that thank you sir thank you you’ve been watching The Morning Show on XL7 TV we’ll see you tomorrow e
