Owl Hoops Coaches Corner

Like most, this is

probably my favorite time of

the year. The holiday season is

a special time where all of us

get to step away from the nor-

mal day to day routines and

spend time with important

people in our lives. There are

stories told, hugs given and lots

of love spread throughout

most households. It is an op-

portunity for us to give thanks

for all the great miracles we

have and continue to experi-

ence.

This is also a special

time of year for a basketball

team. Not because they get five

days off (although I am sure

they are excited about that) but

more importantly, because it is

a time where your team can

reflect and grow. Reflection

and growth are the two most

important components of com-

petitive athletics (at least I think

so). Like life, we must identify

the areas in which we have done

a nice job and be honest about

the areas we have not quit

reached our expectations for

one reason or another. As most

of us know, this is easier as you

get older. Young kids (players)

do not always see the value in

reflecting and being honest with

oneself. Young kids have a ten-

dency to avoid hard truth and

turn away from adversity. Truly

embracing this idea takes time,

patience and thick skin. This

nice little break gives us a time

to watch more film, break down

mistakes and teach how we

need things to be done for us to

continue getting better and I

am looking forward to that

learning process with our team!

Just the other day I

was reminded of a favorite

coaching quote, “If you change

the way you look at things, the

things you look at change. You

must believe in them before

they believe in themselves.”

This holiday season I’ve chal-

lenged our staff to look at things

differently here. Believe in the

progress our kids have made and

push them to keep going. I chal-

lenge you to do the same in your

personal life. Find someone in

your family this Christmas who

could use an extra pat on the

butt or vote of confidence as

they work through a tough time

in their life. We all have the abil-

ity to be a “light” for someone..let

your light shine! Merry CHRIST-

MAS and Happy New Year!

Happy Swishes-

Coach Clough

‘Tis the Season…

December 16, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 9

Dec 19 JV/Varsity Home

vs. New Albany 6:00/7:30

Dec 20 Frosh/JV/Varsity

@ Jennings Co. 6:00/7:30

Dec 22 JV/Varsity

@ Scottsburg 6:00/7:30

Dec 31 Frosh Holiday Tournament

@ Columbus East

Jan 3 JV/Varsity Home

Vs. Switzerland Co. 6:00/7:30

Jan 6 JV/Varsity

@Edinburgh 6:00/7:30

Jan 9 JV/Varsity Home

Vs. Charlestown 6:00/7:30

Upcoming Dates

WHAT C.A.N.I. DO TO IMPROVE?

Knowledge, preparation, drive

and taking action are the gate-

way to future improvement.

Measure yourself in each area.

Adjust if you must!

Truthful self evaluation is a

huge step to self improvement.

Self improvement is an even

larger step to self worth. Start

your evaluation now!

@kevineastman

Kyle Clough

Head Men’s Basketball Coach

(812) 522-4462

Cloughk@scsc.k12.in.us

Career Night for Alumnus Matt Lucas

Seymour High School Boys Basketball

Last week, Owl Basketball alumnus Matt Lu-cas posted a career night for Oakland City University. Lucas was nearly perfect scoring 27 points to lead his Mighty Oaks to a big win over the Mavericks of Ohio State University Mansfield. He was good on 10 of 11 shot at-tempts, including an impressive 6 for 7 from three point range, which is good for the fourth best three point shooting game in OCU men's basketball history. OCU is off to a great start-posting seven wins in their first eight tries.

Lucas is just one of many Owls out there mak-ing us proud. We invite all of our basketball alumni to keep in touch and to keep us in-formed of the great things happening in your lives. If you’d like to follow Matt’s progress this year, check out the official Oakland City Men’s Basket-ball site: www.oak.edu/athletics2/basketball_men/index.php

Seymour High School Boys Basketball

Thank you to all of the coaches, parents and players of our 2014 recreation league! Behind every

great varsity team is a great youth program. We have over 230 young kids from kindergarten through

sixth grade committing themselves to our future. We have a tremendous history here in our basket-

ball program, but we are confident that our future will be even better thanks to your hard work!

We’d like to give special recognition to our amazing rec. league coaches:

Kyle Coates, Talmadge Reasoner, Michael Deckard, PJ Stein, Shawn Charlton, Shane Busby, Matt

Dennis, Nate Unterseher, Matt Gillaspy, Michael Gross, Nathan Frey, Drew Hillian, Shawn Rockey,

Chris Herbert, Brandon Simmons, Jay Schmidt, Jason Fowler, Melissa Holbrook, Dan Loebker, Thomas

Black, Richard Beatty, Jason Fee, Toby Lawson, Patrick Boyd and Ted Leudeman.

We hope to see everyone again on January 16th for youth basketball night. All of our players will be

honored at halftime of the boy’s varsity game. Please wear your game jerseys. We are looking forward

to a great night.