{"id":4702,"date":"2012-04-12T07:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:16:00","slug":"coach-david-cox-hangs-up-his-basketball-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"Coach David Cox Hangs Up His Basketball Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coach David Cox has announced his retirement as head coach of the Lady Pilgrims basketball team. Photo by: Patricia Ortiz<\/p><\/div>\n

By Patricia Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n

After 20 years of coaching the PHS girls basketball team, Mr. Dave Cox is hanging up his basketball shoes.<\/p>\n

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During the 2011-2012 season of girls basketball coach Cox announced that he was to retire at the end of the season. \u00a0His reasons for retiring as head coach, according to him, are \u201cCoaching girls basketball at Plymouth High School was a job that took 11 months each year. \u00a0The time required to coach a program that was constantly ranked in the top teams of the state in 3A is much greater then most people realize. \u00a0We ran different level (grade) programs all the time. \u00a0For 20 years I have not been able to do certain things because of my commitments to basketball. \u00a0I have 9 grandchildren that I want to spend more time with. \u00a0I also felt it was just time for someone else to lead the program. \u00a0I also felt like I was not getting the job done in the classroom and I want to focus on becoming a high-quality biology teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news of his retirement from coaching may have shocked a few people. \u00a0Mr. Cox is unsure as to how the team reacted when he announced that he was retiring. \u00a0He says that he has received \u201cso many great e-mails, cards and letters from former players, coaches, parents, peers, etc. \u00a0It has been very humbling.\u201d<\/p>\n

After coaching girls basketball for 20 years, Mr. Cox says that his favorite part about coaching has been, \u201cthe players and watching them grow as players and as people.\u201d \u00a0He states that this has been, \u201cby far the best part of the job.\u201d \u00a0He states that his second favorite part about coaching has been, \u201cmy time and relationships I have developed with my coaching staff. \u00a0That has been very special. \u00a0My wife Karen and Varsity Assistant Dave Duncan have been around all 20 years. \u00a0We have had alumni return to coach on our staff at various levels, and that is a great honor for me to serve as a mentor to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The girls basketball team has gone to state and semi-state several times. \u00a0According to Mr. Cox, he has been, \u201cblessed when it comes to the success I have had with the Lady Pilgrim basketball program. \u00a0We made it to the state 3A finals in 2001 and lost Indianapolis Cathral. \u00a0Then in 2008 we return[ed] to the 3A state finals game to win the State Championship.\u201d \u00a0Mr. Cox says that, \u201cWhen you make it to state finals or at least deep into the tourney, it takes the kids who played the prior few years to set the tone. \u00a0Success is not set on one class at one point of time like one season, it is the combined result of many classes with unordinary visions all contributing to the resulting success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being the coach of an outstanding basketball team has brought awards to Mr. Cox. \u00a0He says that the success he has achieved is \u201cthe result of having players and families buying into a coach\u2019s vision for his program. \u00a0I had players that would run through the wall for me. \u00a0Result was I had success, which brings with it some awards.\u201d \u00a0He states that the awards he has received are \u201can indication that you as coach have skilled players who have bought into your program\u2019s philosophy as a basketball team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Patricia Ortiz After 20 years of coaching the PHS girls basketball team, Mr. Dave Cox is hanging up his basketball shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}