Boys' Basketball Coach Of The Year: Mike Leduc Of Damien

Coaching precocious schoolhouse hoops since nan 1979-80 play and being nan second-winningest coach successful authorities history pinch 1,127 victories, Mike LeDuc is 1 of those old-school coaches who likes to push his players guardant and slice into nan inheritance erstwhile squad occurrence comes.

This play astatine Damien, LeDuc tin return a front for guiding nan Spartans to nan state Division I championship pinch small size but a group of players who loved to sprout threes, ne'er stopped hustling connected defense and executed adjacent to perfection connected nan biggest shape astatine Golden 1 Center and during his team’s playoff run.

For turning a group of players he fondly called “overachievers” into champions, LeDuc is The Times’ boys’ hoops coach of nan year.

Through his galore years of coaching astatine Damien and antecedently astatine Glendora, he’s mentored specified outstanding players arsenic Tracy Murray, Casey Jacobsen and Cameron Murray. Now Cameron’s sophomore son, CJ, plays for Damien. It’s a afloat circle infinitesimal for LeDuc, who was holding his granddaughter astatine nan awards ceremonial successful Sacramento.

As nan years spell by and nan crippled keeps changing, LeDuc continues to adapt, set and powerfulness on.

LeDuc‘s reply is, “Basketball is simply a existent elemental game. It’s a crippled of repetition and if you do it complete and over, you expect it to beryllium done perfectly.”