Whenever there's a great community sports story like the Sheboygan North girls' basketball team going to State, there are many people behind the scenes who helped make it happen.
Too many to name.
But a couple of men worth praising in regards to North's success are Scott Kopetsky and Ed Thompson.
Kopetsky is a key figure in the Sheboygan Area School District Recreation Department youth basketball program. He helps teach the young, beginning players the highly important, most basic, core fundamentals, such as pivoting, shot follow-through, proper passing, etc. He's energetic and patient with every new group that comes through, and most impressively, his interest never waned after his own daughters moved through the program and into high school.
He was one of the first coaches to hone the talents of North's Dana and Shelby Churchill and Kayla Tetschlag, among others.
Thompson, a teacher and assistant football coach at North, teaches a weight training class many of the North girls take, enjoy, believe in and benefit from. He helped them get stronger and more confident, obviously extremely important traits in basketball.
-- Pete Barth
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