The 2024-2025 Basketball 🏀 season is ready to get underway and Anthony Barnes has a 12 Player roster. Simple math tells you that only five of these young men can be in the starting lineup each night 🌙.
The next line of separation comes at the end of the playing rotation. Most teams usually land somewhere between seven and eight players that will receive substantial game time. The third and final group will work hard all season long in hopes of earning more playing time.
The third group is equally important to the team, at least in my World 🌎. The show up and practice in hopes of improving their game, give up a significant amount of time to represent both the School 🏫 and the Community. Let’s not forget the commitment from the Parents and Siblings from the start of the season until the final horn of the last game.
Head Coach Anthony Barnes is very similar to the last Head Coach I spent 3 months with, Volleyball 🏐 Coach Cindy Edwards. Both of these Coaches are rather intense when it comes to their program and can easily be mistaken for gruff. But know this about them both, they absolutely love 💘 what they do and they 💘 who they are doing it for.
Coaches all have different levels of demanding and the Student Athletes have to adapt to the level of expectation that their Coach that season has for him or her.
The goal is not to fill the Students with false bravado like dreams of playing in the National Basketball Association. It’s designed for them to feel supported, by their teammates, Coaches, Families, Student Body and the Community.
Barnes and Assistant Coach Kris Richardson are as easy to work with as it gets from my perspective. Yes, they are demanding of their team and the individual players but at the same time they want them to enjoy the process along the way.
The Player Profile this season is titled Ten Things You Should Know about [ ]. As I explained to the players during their interviews, the process is designed to make them think and help them grow. Five of the things are facts and Five of the things required them to think. Why, you might ask, that’s easy, because its my Goal to help prepare anyone out there for Life after graduation 🎓.
- Full Name
- Parents as they should be listed
- Year of School 🏫, Height and position on the court.
- Their Home Town
- If they could play College Basketball 🏀 at any school in the Country, where would it be?
- What is their favorite thing to do when they are not playing Hoops?
- Complete the Following sentence – This team will have a successful season as long as I………..
- Please compare Coach Anthony Barnes to a restaurant and then give a reason for the choice
- What is your favorite part of wearing the Carroll County High School Basketball jersey ?
- Please tell me one thing about yourself that you would want others to know.
Davis Reitzel happened to be at practice and the very personable Virginia Tech freshman was happy to act as our test balloon 🎈. His answers are real but first he had to choose an identity – Bonus points to any readers that know the Movie 🎥 the character is from ???
Peter Lemon 🍋 Jello
Orange Jello & Banana Jello
Freshman – 6’3 – Power Forward
Woodlawn, Virginia
Duke University
Playing Video Games 🎮
Stay Focused and Motivated
Raisin Cain – His Fire 🔥 and passion
Environment created with the Fans and the Community
I try my very best to do my very best at everything that I do.
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We will create each one of these as stand alone events so that each player gets to have his day in the Sun 🌞 all to himself.
Thank You Davis Reitzel 🙏 and always, Thank You to Anthony Barnes!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 