pdaddy42

Oneida has started a middle school program for both the boys and girls. There is also a Scott county summer league that has players 15 and under playing teams withint the county and from neighbroing counties like Knox, Fentress, Morgan, Campbell, and some KY schools. It's not much, but its got to start somewhere.

I'm going to start off by saying I am a senior at Oneida High School, and more than likely anyone within Scott county could figure out who I am, but if people can't figure it out by my screen name then I will gladly say my real name if someone asks, because if someone doesn't have the courage to man up for what they say, then they should not be saying anything at all, even if it is praise. Now... I've known Kate since I was seven years old, and in my entire life I could not think of a person (male or female) who deserves a record like she set more than anyone else, not any scott high student I've ever known or any oneida student for that matter. For someone to get onto an internet message board and talk bad about a girl who has spent most of her life dedicating herself to her craft is a sad and pathetic thing to see, but I also know that it only means she has truly done something great. If she had only been second, tell me, would you be on this board right now degrading her? And by degrading her coaching staff, her school, her schoolboard, and vicariously, her entire county, you degrade her. You may not think it, but that is how it comes off. I play sports as well, and when someone talks bad about my coach it reflected onto me. If someone talked bad about my school it made me want to play even harder because as a member of a team I represented that school, as I am sure almost any player of any game has felt something similar at one time or another. All I really want to know is, what did you expect to gain by this? If your team had won a game against her and you were bragging, I could understand. If your team was the one she scored 40 on, I could understand. But from what I see you are just a poor, washed up player (or just player hater) that more than likely never made it outside the county lines. It's people like you that fuel people like Kate. I hope she reads this topic so that she can have one more person to think about when shes working for whichever college she chooses to go to, because you may have just helped make one of the best female players in the state of TN even better. ~P