Sports Poets Society

https://sites.google.com/site/coatesvillehalloffame/page-1/2006 Coach Smith is good and what he does. For 28 years, from 1975 to 2003 he has coached a basketball team at the high school level. His long and illustrious career includes any milestones. James "Scooggy" graduated from Coatesville high school in 1964 . He attended Maryland state college, now the University of Maryland, Eastern shore, and in 1968 earned a BS degree in health, physical education and recreation. After college, "Scooggy" became an educator and from 1975 to 1982 he coached the freshman, junior varsity and varsity basketball teams at Devon Preparatory School. In 1982, He returned this high school, alma mater to coach the Coatesville High girls’ varsity basketball team. Scooggy assisted Coach Jerry Quedenfeld with the Coatesville High boys’ team from 1985 to 1993. As interim head coach for the 1989 – 1990 season, he led the team to a Ches-Mont championship with an 18 – 8 record. Scooggy also as...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1997/02/17/the-unkindest-cut-for-basketballers-in-coatesville-pa-as-for-teenage-athletes-all-across-america-high-school-team-tryouts-are-wrenching-tests-of-heart-and-ego FEBRUARY 17, 1997 THE UNKINDEST CUT FOR BASKETBALLERS IN COATESVILLE, PA., AS FOR TEENAGE ATHLETES ALL ACROSS AMERICA, HIGH SCHOOL TEAM TRYOUTS ARE WRENCHING TESTS OF HEART AND EGO MARK BOWDEN TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT It starts with the boys who cut themselves . They are a blessing. Take the freshman who trips in the first set of suicide sprints. Coach Jim (Scoogy) Smith whistles the start, and in a crisp volley of chirping sneakers the kid goes down. He promptly rights himself, but soon he is a full court behind the pack, his skinny arms and legs chugging, his buzz cut tucked deep in his shoulders, as if the gym were about to collapse on his head. Scoogy (rhymes with boogie) loudly counts off the long seconds of the boy's humiliation. He never recovers from the fall. Within da...

Videographer Mike Starling and his family.  Clockwise from upper left: wife Keisha Starling, Starling (with ball), Saafir Starling, 19; Syeer Starling, 12; Shakur Starling, 10; and Shyheim Starling, 8.Mike Starling https://www.inquirer.com/high-school-sports/pennsylvania/mike-big-star-starling-recruiting-videography-skills-high-school-sports-college-coaches-20190606.html PENNSYLVANIA HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Mike ‘Big Star’ Starling uses his videography skills to help high school players connect with college coaches He helps high school players "brand themselves and market and promote themselves in a way that you couldn’t do years ago when it was just word of mouth." by Aaron Carter Updated on Jun 6, 2019, 12:33 p.m. ET In 1997, Michael Starling was a 20-year-old with hip hop in his heart, sports in his rear view and some change in his pocket after his student loan refund check came during his second year at West Chester University. Years earlier, the 6-foot-5 Starling had helped N...