Even in some of the poorer seasons, she always found some positives for the kids. She never got mad.

Upper Arlington and Grove City are both coming off good seasons and they're just going to make our league that much tougher.

She was a heck of a competitor on the golf course. She wouldn't give you a two-foot putt. But she was more competitive within herself. If she felt like she wasn't playing well, it bothered her.

These kids are now playing five or six seasons before they even get to us. With Rye and Portsmouth youth leagues, we have over 200 girls in the program. This year we have a freshman team. So you can see things really starting to build.

The kids are scheduled with lacrosse and soccer during the nice seasons, and there seems to be little time for those types of things.

If you go too much earlier in the spring, then the kids haven't had all the instruction they should have.