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Jonathan Carone wrote:Tell us why.For.....
Sly Fox wrote:One of the guys is a homeschooler from Houston. What do you think?You're right. I admire him even more for overcoming such adversity!
walksports wrote:I actually witnessed, covering Texas private and parochial high school athletics, HCYA in its infancy years before the Sanders boys played.Pretty sure flamehunter´s comment was a joke aimed at Sly, who lives in the Houston area and has a son who has been involved with HCYA.
HCYA (Homeschool Christian Youth Association) honestly experienced no adversity. They - and FEAST out of San Antonio - were two of the first, yet most respected homeschool athletic programs in Texas in the early 1990s.
I personally was at a basketball tournament that HCYA was in where the team that they were playing started the game with five, but were down to three by the end of the third quarter. To start the fourth quarter, Jesse's dad, Tom, who coached the team, sent out three players to go on three-on-three. The high school writer for the Houston Chronicle led his weekly column afterwards crediting the program about teaching sportsmanship.
Tom earned and had the respect of both public and private school coaches and they were never associated with some of the negative attention that non-traditional high school athletics teams and programs receive.
Just an observation. I would add that I think that HCYA paved the way for programs like SATCH, where Kemrite came from, to be more readily accepted by other private and parochial school as well as public schools.
oldflame wrote:walksports wrote:I actually witnessed, covering Texas private and parochial high school athletics, HCYA in its infancy years before the Sanders boys played.Pretty sure flamehunter´s comment was a joke aimed at Sly, who lives in the Houston area and has a son who has been involved with HCYA.
HCYA (Homeschool Christian Youth Association) honestly experienced no adversity. They - and FEAST out of San Antonio - were two of the first, yet most respected homeschool athletic programs in Texas in the early 1990s.
I personally was at a basketball tournament that HCYA was in where the team that they were playing started the game with five, but were down to three by the end of the third quarter. To start the fourth quarter, Jesse's dad, Tom, who coached the team, sent out three players to go on three-on-three. The high school writer for the Houston Chronicle led his weekly column afterwards crediting the program about teaching sportsmanship.
Tom earned and had the respect of both public and private school coaches and they were never associated with some of the negative attention that non-traditional high school athletics teams and programs receive.
Just an observation. I would add that I think that HCYA paved the way for programs like SATCH, where Kemrite came from, to be more readily accepted by other private and parochial school as well as public schools.