Mark Drucker was honored by Taft Excessive on Monday for 50 years of teaching basketball on the Woodland Hills college.
“It was stunning,” he stated of the second within the college fitness center, the place former gamers and former coaches got here to salute him.
He first began teaching in 1974. He’s nonetheless the women’ basketball coach. He’s additionally been the top boys’ basketball coach, coached observe and golf, and was athletic director. He has lived inside strolling distance of the varsity and his spouse has been a instructor at Taft since 1989. His daughter additionally teaches at Taft.
He informed the story of a women’ basketball participant who everybody needed to kick off the crew. He declined, saying, “You simply wish to work with children and alter their lives.” The participant would go on to turn into a crew captain at Pierce School and now lives in Las Vegas and got here to the occasion.
“It was super,” Drucker stated. …
Jerzy Robinson of Sierra Canyon scored a career-high 50 factors on Monday in a win over Louisville.
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