Dustin Cherry

Today was the day. We finally got our rings and man it still feels surreal. This clip gives me that feeling everytime I watch. WE ARE BOOKER T💯 2017 STATE CHAMPIONS. We Wired Different💯🔥💍 Time to defend our title💯

No spring break just an opportunity to get better. There is a bigger goal in mind! C/o 2028 Height- 6’1 Weight-220 Bench- 315 Squat-475 #NextRepMentality #thestandard @CoachSmithVC @VCAStormFB @kenney_byers @CoachNelly_97 @CoachMJacobs34 @dcherry56 @PrepRedzoneFL @RealNews102

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

“Most people don’t want to be part of the process, they just want to be part of the outcome. But the process is where you figure out who’s worth being part of the outcome.” Alex Morton

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anywhere till you change it.

Things I wish I would have known as a player: How hard it is on the coach to sit a player who hustles consistently & works hard in practice. (Sometimes the player ahead of them on the depth chart gives the same great effort/attitude and just has higher execution/skills.)

PLAYERS: Your shot might be off but your effort shouldn't be. Find a way to be valuable to your team.

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The weight room is biased. It only rewards those who work. And it will see right through anyone not willing to do it. It’s a truth teller. You can’t fool it. It will let you know exactly where things stand.

Parents: If you do things for your athlete that they can do for themselves, you don’t build confidence; you build a coddled,dependant person

Greg Jones y’all

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