Note: The Eagles recently placed third in the NCHBC national championships. This is the highest finish in program history. Coach Will Avery and I have been so busy this season coaching and integrating new players into the program that we have not shared much about the great people and stories from this season. The "Meet the GAIS Eagles" series and other stories from nationals and the season are attempts to share the news!
Above are highlights from Eagles coach Will Avery's first official outing with the 2013-14 GAIS middle school team. Avery led his group to the championship of the NCHBC National Tip-Off tournament in Springfield, Missouri, last November. The Eagles built on their early success, playing a 30 plus game schedule versus public school, private school, and homeschool junior varsity and middle school competition and ending the season with a Southeast Regional Homeschool tournament championship.
Although the story of the Eagles' early season tournament title is familiar to most within our program, I have yet to share the view from which I experienced the exciting moment. Having coached a varsity game that started across town just before the tip off of the middle school game, my players, their parents and I raced over to Baptist Bible College to try to catch the ending of the middle school championship game and cheer on our guys against the heralded Oklahoma City Storm. We knew by following updates from hslive365.com during the ride that the Eagles were tied with less than 2 minutes remaining and that Trent Bowdre had been on fire from three point land. So when the bus pulled into the parking lot of Baptist Bible, the scene unfolded as follows...
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