Welcome to episode #182! We continued our series of lesser known sports that are growing in popularity. So far, we have covered Pickleball, Horseshoe Pitching, Speed Golf, and Extreme Races, Disc Golf, and Ultimate. We aimed for the bulls eye this week and spoke with Missouri Department of Conversation Archery expert Warren Rose about the benefits of getting this sport into schools. Springfield Public Schools (SPS) started Archery and in no time has exploded the sport to now hosting over 900 athletes! Two big reasons, besides Warren Rose’s involvement…Theresa Miller and Susan Provance. Theresa and Susan have organized and implemented the Archery program at SPS, and the popularity has grown, along with providing all students interested a connection and opportunity to be involved.

We also spoke with the Executive Director of the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA), Coach Denny Hunt about the state basketball coaches clinic that has a stellar line up this year. With over 1,000 coaches in their membership the MBCA has put together a four-day virtual clinic of multiple headlining coaches, along with panels on social justice, mentoring and a panel of MBCA Coaches of the Year.

We will continue this series next week with Dodgeball as we host Ed Prentiss, President of the National Dodgeball Association. Email the sport you want covered to acoachsperspective@gmail.com!

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