Congrats to my college Coach Kim Elders on another @WHACAthletics title!
12 WHAC tourney titles
11 WHAC reg season titles
797 career wins
40 Nat’l Tournament wins
8 Elite Eights
7 Final Fours
3 National Championships
Developing players, coaches, men for eternity
#MoreThanAGame
Back-to-Back WHAC Tournament Champs! 🏆🏆
This team faced adversity throughout the season but remained resilient and met every challenge head on. It's a privilege to coach such an unselfish and humble group of guys. Onto the next!
FINAL SCORE: Sparta 54, Spring Lake 38. The Spartans win their regional semi-final and they’ll move on to face either Grand Rapids Catholic Central or South Christian. We’ll have the highlights from both games tonight at 11 on @wzzm13 with @Jacob_Seus!
Sparta 68, Comstock Park 58 in a Division 2 district title game.
Landen Reister 20 points, Aiden DeVary 18, Grady Busen 12 for the Spartans (13-11). Reister, an unsigned senior, is averaging 18 points per game.
Congratulations to Jax Wilson for becoming Sparta's All-Time leading scorer with 1,338 career points in Friday's District Final game versus Fremont. Wilson surpassed Jimmy Cochran's 1,337 career record. Jax averaged 25.6 points his senior year. https://t.co/7uxBv8ipoq
Jaiden Krynicki provided a huge boost for Sparta in the first half. He made four threes and almost had a fifth go down right before the first half buzzer.
Sparta beats West Catholic 63-49 to advance to a Division 2 District Championship, will face the winner of Fremont/Grant on Friday night.
Jax Wilson (S): 33 pts
Jeremiah Jones (WC): 23 pts
Jaiden Krynicki (S): 14 pts
I’ve known the Dykstra fam since @CadenceDykstra was in 5th grade. It was clear that she was destined for greatness. In a day and age where stats are praised she cares about 1 thing only. Winning! Best player on the best team in the state! https://t.co/t686FyiRJO
Couldn’t have scripted it any better if you are @JaxWilson2023 and the @SpartaBoysHoops! Last shot on your home court you hit a game winner half court shot to beat a really tough Godwin team.
Steve Kerr's comments about AAU Basketball.
“Even if today’s players are incredibly gifted, they grow up in a basketball environment that can only be called counterproductive. AAU basketball has replaced high school ball as the dominant form of development in the teen years. I coached my son’s AAU team for three years; it’s a genuinely weird subculture. Like everywhere else, you have good coaches and bad coaches, or strong programs and weak ones, but what troubled me was how much winning is devalued in the AAU structure. Teams play game after game after game, sometimes winning or losing four times in one day. Very rarely do teams ever hold a practice. Some programs fly in top players from out of state for a single weekend to join their team. Certain players play for one team in the morning and another one in the afternoon. If mom and dad aren’t happy with their son’s playing time, they switch club teams and stick him on a different one the following week. The process of growing as a team basketball player — learning how to become part of a whole, how to fit into something bigger than oneself — becomes completely lost within the AAU fabric.”
Congratulations on such an amazing milestone of surpassing 200 Career Wins! The passion and dedication you have are second to none. Thankful and appreciative for all of our memories at CP! @SpartaBoysHoops