Thursday, July 10, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page B-3
By EMILY HANSON
emi @masoncounty com
With less than 10 girls regularly
showing up at practice, there's not a
whole lot Dave Hawkins can do with
the Lady Bulldogs this summer.
The North Mason head girls bas-
ketball coach said he's focusing on
skill work during summer practices.
"We've run into a numbers prob-
lem," Hawkins said Monday evening
during practice. "The problem with
any small school is you have a limited
number of kids to draw from for any
sport."
When athletes choose to play select
soccer, volleyball or any other sport
during the summer, it limits or elimi-
nates their ability to focus on basket-
ball, he added. Select sports are ath-
letic teams available outside of school
seasons. They often play year-round.
"The older kids also want to work and
a lot of the younger kids seem to be in-
volved in select sports," Hawkins said.
Still, Hawkins and his assistant
coaches open the North Mason gym
for the girls from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every
Monday and Thursday for summer
practice.
"What we're trying to do is skill
work: ball-handling, shooting, pass-
ing," Hawkins said. "If we can't do
tournaments, we need to work on our
basic skills."
Although Hawkins said he'd like to
take the team to tournaments during
the summer, the practices are aver-
aging about six girls and it's not the
same six each night.
"It's been difficult to work on build-
ing a team," he said. "But the incom-
ing freshmen are learning what we
do."
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Journal photo by Emily Hanson
North Mason incoming senior Quincy Satran looks for a teammate to
pass to Monday during summer girls basketball practice.
The numbers problem is also one think both will have a really good
reason why the team won't host ayear. I think teams will have a hard
youth girls basketball camp similar to time defending Quincy and Mikaela."
what the high school boys team does He praised incoming freshman
each summer. Harley Simonson for the hard work
The other reason for no youth she's put in at the practices and said
camp is that Hawkins and the assis- incoming sophomore Sydney Garrett
tant coaches work outside of the Bel- has improved as well.
fair area and don't get summers off, "I think it's important to play in
he said. the offseason," Hawkins said. "When
Despite the low participation num- we come in in November, you're not
bers, Hawkins said he likes what he's going to get better in the 10-day prac-
seen from the girls so far. tice period before the season starts.
"The upperclassmen, Quincy Sa- When you improve is June and July,
tran and Mikaela Shumaker specifi- when you can come in here and shoot.
cally, look more athletic," he said. "I It's fine-tuning time."
occer"
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She said she's nervous to leave the
club.
"When I started, I knew absolutely
nothing, but I figured it out," LeDoux
said. "I hope people will step up and
help all of the programs succeed."
She said she's hoping the board
breaks up the responsibilities she had
with the summer program into several
positions within the club.
That decision will be based on how
many board members the club has, she
said.
"The board has six members right
now," LeDoux added. "We're continually
trying to find a way to invite new people
and get new ideas."
LeDoux said she'll formally an-
nounce her retirement at Monday's
board meeting. The club meets at 6:30
p.m. the second Monday of each month
in the back room of the building at the
soccer park.
"Anyone is welcome to the meetings,"
LeDoux said.
Finally, she said she's grateful for the
opportunity to work with the club for so
many years.
"It's a gift that's been given to me and
it made me a better mom and a better
community member," she said.
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continued from page B- 1 I said it's a good sport." tor at Chief Leschi from
Pnngle began studying 2003 to 2007.
"It stands for Disci- basketball and attending From there, Prin-
pline, Attitude and Posi- coaching clinics. In 1996, gle moved on to The Ev-
tive Performance," he his family and he moved ergreen State College
explained, have kids to Washington and Prin- in Olympia, where he
who want to play basket- gle said he couldn't get his worked as the assistant
ball, get better and try son onto a team. women's coach from 2006
to get scholarships. We "So my son got 10 to 2008. He graduated
take anyone who comes friends together and we from Evergreen in 2000.
through the door." played at a park with me Pringle starting coach-
Through the program, coaching them,"he said."I ing at Grays Harbor in
Pringle takes basketball love coaching basketball." 2008 and retired in 2012.
players to camps and din- Pringle began his first Although the basket-
ics, and finds leagues for offficial coaching job at ball season at Shelton
them to play in outside of Chief Leschi High School doesn't begin untrl Novem-
the regular season, in Puyallup as the ju-ber, Pringle has already
"We try to build a team nior varsity coach for the worked withthe team.
around them," he said.boys and girls teams. He He was there for the
DAP Hoops offers aca- coached there from 2003 end of the summer league
demic tutoring and per- to 2006, leaving as the season the Highclimbers
sonal mentoring, head boys varsity coach, competed in and took the
While growing up on He was the athletic direc- team to camp at the end of
the East Coast, Prin-
gle was an All-American
football player and track
athlete, but said he never
played basketball.
"When my kids played
basketball while we lived
in West Virginia, I volun-
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June at Eastern Washing- to win," Pringle said. "By dren played basketball in
ton University. lifting their confidence, high school, he said Shel-
"They're scrappy,"pushing them and teach- ton was a tough team to
Pringle said of the High- ing how to do it, they can compete against.
climbers. 'They get on the learn to win again." "I want to restore the
floor and they fight for ev- For his first year as basketball community
erything they get." coach, Pringle said hehere," he said. "I want to
He said his primary wants the team to win get pride back in Shelton
goal for the team is to half its games, because it used to be good.
break the "We're not going "Anything more than that I want these kids to know
to win" mentality, is just extra," Pringle said. they can play basketball in
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