Thursday, January 9, 2014

Former Grambling State coach makes quiet statement at BTW High

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana -- The old gymnasium at Booker T. Washington High School in Shreveport has seen its share of historic occasions through the years — big-time games, marquee players and memories that for some will last a lifetime.

The faces of players and coaches may have changed, but the close-knit confines, the echoes of the walls, the 10-foot height of a sometimes unforgiving rim have remained the same.

If the walls could talk, they’d likely tell the world what they think about the latest face to inhabit their confines. Donnita Rogers, a winner as a Division I women’s basketball coach, has assumed the head coaching job for the boys’ basketball team — something unheard of just a few years ago and still an anomaly at the high school level.

Standing on the well-seasoned gym floor one recent Tuesday evening, Rogers coaxed, cajoled, corrected and complimented the intrasquad actions of the 13 young men under her tutelage.

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