The pressure’s been lifted. A crushing weight on my system that I didn’t know was there. My whole existence, I lived and loved basketball; I used the sport to overcompensate for other areas of my life. But I never got to play. I was a high school benchwarmer. For 14 years, this tormented me. Basketball was all I had. And without it, I lost my identity. After the heartbreak of heating the seats, I stayed away from the game for ten years before the universe brought me back. I started as an assistant coach with a 5th-grade girls’ team, before eventually working my way up to a
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