As we finished up the 2016-2017 season and achieved the best record since 2005, we ultimately felt like we hadn’t achieved the expectations and goals that we set forth.
While this is true, we have done some tremendous things along the way. The records the last two years have been great because it has shown consistent improvement. The most important thing to me is that these young men have helped facilitate a winning culture on and off the floor. We have guys that are achieving great things in the classroom, in the community and on the court.
The seniors that just finished up have left their mark on this program and we are forever grateful to them for their time, effort, blood, sweat and tears that they have invested in this program. We have had some of the best people and players to have ever played here in the program this past year. We are very fortunate to have such high character, hard-working young men. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been able to develop relationships with those seniors and everybody that is in our program.
Thank you to my players for giving everything they had. That is all anybody can ever ask for. The Blackburn community should also feel very fortunate to have been able to see these guys do the things they have done on and off the floor. They are true difference makers and they will be missed. The great thing about this program is that those guys have set such a great example for the ones coming behind them and we are extremely excited about the future.
Go Beavers!