Jamal Adams

Husband, Dad, Brother & Son! Principal at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, Proud Alum Loyola High, Columbia Univ & LMU...@bcaworldwide #AMDG

[Jamal Adams @CoachJAdamsLHS]

Loved this possession! Very proud of our group and how@much we’ve improved from the beginning of the year.

[Loyola High School Athletics @LoyolaAthletics]

Some great ball movement by the Cubs leads to a Colby Brooks ‘20 jumper!

Loyola leads Santa Monica, 44-31, at the end of the third quarter. #GoCubs

[Tarek Fattal @Tarek_Fattal]

HOOPS: Just chatted with new Loyola basketball coach Cam Joyce. Super sharp guy that's learned so much in a few short months since his move from Ohio.

Knows the lay of the land, programs, playoff system, rules, players — all of it. Cubs could make a big leap in 2025-26.

[Tarek Fattal @Tarek_Fattal]

The Loyola faithful in full force.

Mira Costa vs. Loyola volleyball. Best prep volleyball in the country under one roof.

[eric sondheimer @latsondheimer]

‘It’s overwhelming.’ Loyola High students moved by donations after their homes burned https://t.co/tobRBEppaG

[eric sondheimer @latsondheimer]

After watching hours and hours of TV coverage of the fires, taking a trip to Loyola High to see so many people coming together to help affected families offers inspiration and hope. What a community.

[Russell White @russellyt]

If you are in the Thousand Oaks area, we need your help on Monday! My former player and great role model to my two boys needs a big assist. Let’s get it done! @kyleowens0

[Russell White @russellyt]

If you are not in Thousand Oaks area OR not available on Monday to assist @kyleowens0 , you can actually get a cheek swab kit sent to you. Send me a dm and I’ll make sure you get. Donors need to be between 18 and 40

[Russell White @russellyt]

If you can’t get to cheek swab location and you want to help, dm me….ill make sure you get a kit. Donors must 18-40 years old

[Vincent Nolasco @VinceNolascoAD]

Thank you @CoachJAdamsLHS for sharing your leadership and wisdom to our fellow athletic directors and principals earlier at our ADLA & CIF-SS workshop!

#ADLA #CAA #CIFSS

[All-Access Network @AllAccess_Net]

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[Jamal Adams @CoachJAdamsLHS]

RT @BCAWORLDWIDE: If we don’t SUPPORT our own, who will?

PHOENIX, ARE YOU READY?

WE ARE SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR BCA COACHES CLINIC.…

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

When he was 19, Andre Agassi started losing his hair.

Deeply ashamed of his receding hairline, to hide it, Agassi started wearing a hairpiece.

Not long after, at the 1990 French Open, Agassi made it to his first Grand Slam final.

“The night before the final,” Agassi writes,

“Catastrophe strikes.”

As he was taking a shower, Agassi felt the hairpiece disintegrate in his hands. He summoned his brother, who was able to clip the hairpiece back together with 20 bobby pins.

The next morning, Agassi writes, “warming up before the match, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on…My tenuous hairpiece has me catatonic…With every lunge, every leap, I picture it landing on the clay. I can picture millions of people suddenly leaning closer to their TVs, turning to each other and in dozens of languages and dialects saying some version of: Did Andre Agassi’s hair just fall off?”

At times, he looks into the stands and sees fans sporting hairdos just like his. This only exacerbates his sense of shame. “I can’t imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi,” he writes, “since I don’t want to be Andre Agassi.”

Because of this fixation on his hairpiece, though he was the heavy favorite, Agassi lost three sets to one.

After, his girlfriend, aware of the hairpiece catastrophe, says, “I think you should just get rid of that hairpiece.”

“Impossible,” Agassi replies, “I’d feel naked.”

“You’d feel liberated,” she says.

He thought it over for a few days: “I thought about the pain my hair has caused me, the hypocrisy and the pretending and the lying.”

And then he went back to his girlfriend, “Let’s do it…Let’s cut it all off.”

His first tournament with a bald head was another Grand Slam, the Australian Open, and, “I come out like the Incredible Hulk. I don’t drop one set in a take-no-prisoners blitz to the final.”

You were right, he told his girlfriend before the final, “my hairpiece was a shackle.”

In the final, he won three sets to one. “Everyone says it’s my best performance yet, because it’s my first victory over Pete [Sampras]. But I think twenty years from now I’ll remember it as my first bald victory.”

Takeaway 1:

In his book, in interviews, and in the documentary “Stutz,” the psychiatrist Phil Stutz talks about the Shadow.

“The easiest way to say it,” Stutz explains, “is that the Shadow is the part of yourself that you’re ashamed of…It’s a flawed part of yourself that you feel you have to hide and once you start to hide things, you become very sensitive to whether other people can see them or not. It becomes an obsession—How do they see me, what do they think of me, do they like me, love me?”

The more you try to hide what you’re ashamed of, as Agassi said, the more ashamed you feel.

“But the beauty is,” Stutz continues, “once you stop hiding it, you can relax and then you get flow. If you stop hiding your Shadow, if you stop hiding, you get flow. And that’s what everybody wants.”

After he stopped hiding his Shadow, Agassi got flow. He went on to win back-to-back Grand Slams and ended 1995 as the number one ranked tennis player in the world, replacing Pete Sampras who held the spot for eighty-two straight weeks.

Takeaway 2:

Keeping in mind that Agassi was so worried about what others would think or say about his shaved head, I went searching for what others thought or said after he shaved his head.

All I could find was a passing mention in a 1995 Washington Post piece (“The wild mane of hair he sported at the tournament last season has been replaced with his new no-nonsense buzz cut.”)

It made me think of a line from the philosopher Seneca, who writes in a letter titled On Groundless Fears: “We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.”

In his head, Agassi thought people would think or say nasty things about him.

In reality, no one really cared.

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“The most precious thing we have in life is time, so any time you spend worrying about something, get rid of it.” — Andre Agassi

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[Jamal Adams @CoachJAdamsLHS]

Gut-Wrenching! The 3 Super Bowl losses in the row for my Niners seems to get harder to fathom each time. Damn! Damn! Damn!

[Tim Moscicki @tmmlhs]

Loyola soccer defeats Notre Dame, giving Coach Walter his 500th victory

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Wow.

Incredible story told by Mitchell Robsinon’s high school coach Butch Stockton.

Stockton explains his wife passed away in September and that Robinson visited her every day she was in the hospital.

At the funeral, Mitch said he’d invite Butch to live with him in NY. Stockton took him up on the offer and has been Robinson’s roommate since the start of the season.

[Jamal Adams @CoachJAdamsLHS]

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[Jamal Adams @CoachJAdamsLHS]

@Lakers Silk! Great player, better person!

[Los Angeles Lakers @Lakers]

This is the story of a great Laker, and one of the most accomplished players in California basketball history.

[Jamal Adams @CoachJAdamsLHS]

@ssectionstats @Ryan_Bailey21 My boy gets busy! Proud of you Moosey! @Ryan_Bailey21

[Southern Section Stats @ssectionstats]

Brentwood since Ryan Bailey became head coach in 2011

-242-107 (0.693)
-64.9 PPG
-31-13 in CIF playoffs
-Avg. pt. differential in playoffs: +12.1
-2017 Southern Section Div. 3AA Champs
-2018 Southern Section Div. 2AA Champs
-From Div. 5AA in 15-16 to D1 in 18-19

@Ryan_Bailey21

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Wild times at 𝕏.

It's nearly impossible to keep up 🤯

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