School sports is a team sport. It’s not just something that coaches and athletes do; but something, even in so-called individual sports, that a team must do together to do well. It’s coaches and athletes, of course; but also administrators, board members and boosters, as well as the media and a whole lot more.
And on this team, we can’t all be the stars; but we can be people who help to make the stars shine. We can all be playmakers.
On many championship basketball teams, the key player is the playmaker.
The playmaker – the person who equips and encourages others – is a role to rejoice in, not resent; responsibilities to relish, not regret. Playmakers are absolutely essential to school-sponsored sports, and never more valuable than during these times of so much selfishness in our national sports heroes and so much need in our local sports programs.
From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.